Pope’s Night celebration is marred by the death of a five-year-old boy.

The boy is killed by a wagon carrying an effigy of the pope. Both Samuel Swift, a ship carpenter and leader of the North End crowd, and Ebenezer MacIntosh, a leather worker and leader of the South End crowd, are subsequently indicted for manslaughter for causing the fatal accident. Neither are convicted, but according to Esther Forbes, that year’s celebration is the “last completely uninhibited old-fashioned Pope’s Day in Boston.”