The knife to the throat of a Montreal newspaper editor

   Hutton Perkins lived on the east side of Bleury at the very bottom. He ran the Montreal Times, which went broke and he took his own life in 1848.

   Perkins was an interesting guy insofar as he stood up to Francis Hincks, who took over his paper and wanted Perkins to write up his views, which tended to be of the Reform and anti-Protestant variety. 

   Hincks had moved to a home on St. Antoine from Toronto and eventually got to be a big-shot in the government for a while before dying of small pox in Montreal in 1885. 

   So Perkins wouldn't write up the stuff Hincks had wanted him to, so Hincks, who had launched the Toronto Globe, started the Montreal Pilot being a megalomaniac with a sort of blog-slash news reporting platform (sounds familiar - Chimples).
   Anyway, there's a story behind the Montreal Pilot which is pretty funny, but not really a propos, the editor was a bright young kid named Andrew Bell, a bit of a francophile, who kept pushing for a celebration of the Battle of the Plains of Abraham. He seemed entirely oblivious to the fact that the francophones might not also want to celebrate his hero Wolfe. Eventually Bell returned to England and lived in some degree of poverty.
   Back to Perkins. He was at a hotel here in Montreal on Notre Dame and gave a woman working there a bunch of stuff to pass on. She found it suspicious and kept and eye on him. Soon she came and saw blood dripping from his face. She thought he was vomiting blood but it turns out he had slashed his own throat.