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... DREADFUL ACCIDENT NEAR HALSHAW MOOR. FOUR PERSONS KILLED. An inquest was held yesterday, before W. S. Rutter, Esq., coroner, at the Unicorn Inn, Kersley, on the bodies of James CowsiU, aged 40 ; William Cowsill , his son ; Peter Harrison, aged 38 ; and ...
... Booth, were working with the traveller the top of the scaffolding, and Thomas Hawke and Reuben Knowles were below setting stones in the excavation for a foundation at the south end of the scaffolding, not far from the point where it terminated. Whilst they ...
... to the scaffold, the Rev. Mr. Rolfe walking by the side of the culprit readfing a prayer. The Rev. Mr. Davis, Ordinary of Newgate, was present, but did not take any part in the pro- ceedings. The culprit ascended the steps leading to the scaffold without ...
... Easter Monday, the British Museum was visited by 36,12G persons. The Last Public Killing by the Hangman. —The last—we fear it may be more correct to say the latestpublic killing by the hangman took place at Derby on Thursday, when Platts, the butcher, convicted ...
... Altogether the year W has been the worst in this branch of trade since 1840. Two men were killed at the works of the Conway Tubular Bridge Thursday. extensive scaffolding had been erected for the purpose of adjusting the machinery in erecting the stupendous ...
... occupation of Messrs. WVilkinson, a tbhe chain broke, and precipitated thiem to the bottomn a I ,v depth of 1)o yards. A wvooden scaffold had been erected b y across the shaft, towtards the bottom, for the purpose of a y getting a shallower coal, but such wasthe ...
... song of the shirt. “ THE SONG OF* THE SCAFFOLD.” •« And the Lord said unto him, therefore, whosoever Lam. vengeance shall taken on him sevenfold, and the Lord set his murk upon Cain, lest anv finding him should kill him. •‘THE MANIAC.” Hush ! 'tis the night ...
... I - DERRY, JV1EDNRS.4Y, APRi.13. Not yet, thank God.! will those scaffolds be erected on which the Emperor Nicholas had destined the Patriots to bleed, who desired to relieve their country fro thegallingand degrading chains to which Poland had been too ...
... coal pits at the above place, Mr. Joseph Corner, in November last was killed in a frightful manner by a man falling upon him from the mouth of the nit, when standing on a scaffold in the shaft, renairing the pumps. He left widow and seven young children ...
... had some drink. I only knew two of them. They asked me w ould I go with them, and they would give me a share of what they killed. I said I would, and they gave me the ammunition to carry-the balls and the slugs. I never had a gun that night, and never ...
... iriotisly estimated fiom 10,000 individuals, neailv half of whom were women. The river'l'arell between the spectators ami the scaffold, the avenue guarded the police. Oil Tuesday, at the request the convict. Mr. Lan-nhy. governor the gaol, took down the following ...
... water; hence this accident, which has been productive the most terrible results. The foreman and three others were either killed on the spot or have since died. Of fifteen men and boys picked up after the accident had taken place, the majority have sustained ...