... doubt, through his counsel, the prisoner had admitted that Carey was killed by himself, subject course to what be, the learned counsel, bad said in bis arguments, that this killing was under circumstances which did not amount murder. He was not quite ...

... two persons. Some men were employed in removing the scaffolding recently used in restoring the church, when portion of the woodwork gave wav, and the men were thrown to the ground, two of whom were killed, and the others seriously wounded. ...

... tirimwood and son, the contractors, her husb►nd having been killed by an accident which it was allei_ed was due to the carelessness o; persons in their employ. It seemed that the scaffolding was erected in the ordinary way, tat, it being a stone buildiu ...

... executioner. Meunier met his fate calmly. He was accompanied on to the scaffold by two Roman Catholic priests, one of whom, Father Knight, read the funeral service. While upon the scaffold the condemned man asked the executioner to Wait,” saying, I want to ...

... into the corn-field with the mother and the child he intended have killed them both, and he said he believed that the mother was dead before left, or he should have stayed and killed her. Mr. M. S. Longmore, the under sheriff the county, accompanied by ...

... beyond the explosions, fires and accidents which usually occur. The Benton Hotel at Chicago was burnt down, two men being killed by the flames, while some of the firemen were injured. In consequence of a premature explosion of fireworks Harlem, New York ...

... wedges for the deceased, who was on the roof, witness being on the scaffold. The deceased was standing on a ladder lying upon the roof, the end of which was fasbened to the scaffolding. Deceased was leaning over the left side of the ladder to reach the ...

... die; At laleworth I killed my Annie, My own. and lawful wife, With dreadful loaded pistol, I look away her precious life. II was on the seventh day of August, To Isleworth my way 1 bent, I waa resolved my wife to murder. My Ann to kill was my latent; I shot ...

... had assaulted officer. Four of the whites were killed and eight wounded, and it is expected that the injuries of three of these will prove fatal. It is not positively known whether any negroes were killed. ...

... with the Nile Flotilla under General Earle. Paris, Tuesday. A despatch from Saigon says that the rebels in Cambodia have killed the French officer in command of a military post, and several of his men. Horace Jay was executed in Wandsworth Gaol this ...

... persons killed and 434 injured, 58 of the killed and 305 of the injured were passengers. Of the latter, 18 were killed and 30 injured by falling between carriages and platforms, viz., 10 killed and 23 injured when alighting from, and 8 ...

... were tried for their share in the business, and eight were hanged. It is said that, the scaffold, one of them, addressing the Sheriff, said, “ You are going to kill now, but you will not live much longer yourself.” Very soon after the engineer of the ...