... Close to the roof scaffolding had been fixed (this being a separate contract) a builder named Holmes, of Birmingham. This scaffold was at a height of about fifty ftet from the level of the rails beneath. The spot where the scaffolding gave way was, fortunately ...

... SERIOUS COLLIERY ACCIDENT. TWO MEN KILLED AND TWO INJURED Shortly before one o’clock on Wednesday morning a colliery accident, which two persons lost their lives and two others were injured, took place at Messrs. Mercer and Evans’s Parklane Colliery, ...

... force of frontier police, with the prisoners and scaffold, accordingly went down to the Imperi country, which about fifty miles from Sherbro, on the colonial Government steamer Countess of Derby. The scaffold was erected *in the public street, and the bodies ...

... to go to the scaffold he walked the whole way with firm, quick step. The scaffold, which is the same as was formerly used, was erected close to the locality of previous executions, but, of course, within the walls of the gaol. The scaffold was draped round ...

... Wood, of Leeds. Close to the roof scaffolding fixed (this being separate contract) by a builder Holmes, of Birmingham. This scaffold was at a about fifty feet from the level of the rails beneath. Viatel w^ere scaffolding gave way was, fortunately, imof ...

... Just at the end of the corridor, leading out to the place where the scaffold was erected, he was met by the executioner, Calcraft, and pinioned. He was then conducted to the scaffold, and a white cap having been drawn over his face, the rope was adjusted ...

... Just at the end of the corridor, leading out to the place where the scaffold was erected, he was met by the executioner, Calcraft, and pinioned. He was then conducted to the scaffold, and a white cap having been drawn over his face, the rope was adjusted ...

... cows, 6 were diseased ; I had them killed and buried under section 12, and the remaining 4 in that herd were killed under section 15.—Mr. Noah Newman, of Northall, had his last cow attacked and I ordered it to be killed and buried also on the 18th Sept ...

... trustworthy eyewitnesses,’ who, in former days, well knew the prisoner by sight. was seen by six witnesses cutting down and killing Mr. Fraser. He was seen, with his sword covered from point to hilt with blood, standing over the corpses of the young ladies ...

... struck some of the lower scaffolding, but these only slightly impeded his descent, and ultimately the lad disappeared into the basement storey, beneath the floor of the Exchange. Everybody who was in the place thought he was killed, but providentially he ...

... the warder. I struck a poor officer,” wrote, Portland, friends, you all know ; but I never did with the least thought of killing him. That is what I say with dying breath. You may think as yon like, my friends, but that is the truth.” this confession ...

... I struck a poor officer,” he wrote, “ Portland, friends, as you all know ; but I never did it with the least thought of killing him. That is what I say with dying breath. You may think a? you like, friends, but that is the truth.” this confession he ...