... opponent upon the shooting of the fifty birds on the previous day, only killed twenty-nine birds to-day; 'while Foster killed thirty-two, and thus I won. The fact of Johnson being backed to kill the moast in the first fifty, led to a strongish expression amongst ...

... half boarded over; the l fixed scaffoldings in the transepts are being rapidly ' knocked down; the nave is half painted, with a c, good but rather gaudy effect;. and when this work ieis completed the high travelling scaffold, with its. d two hundred tons ...

... noose and draw a bolt. The attitude of the prisoner in the cart, the order uf the fatal procession, the arrangement of the scaffold and its trappings, and the disposition of the assistants, required the minutest attention. The torture chamber, too, with ...

... man who leaped over nine horses. a distrace of 31ft. ?? being the beet on record. AT the New Bowery. the new Piece of The Scaffold anrd the Throwe, has bee well received, The Woman in White was produced on Monday. llc J. B. RoaENse commesced at the Mo ...

... exeeuted at Brlmttd, for having in a moment of psesin killed her mistress, who had beaten her with a log of wood. The poor convict refused to be executed; seve n men had to drag her to the scaffold, Ianod ashewas hanged, reisting to the last. At the moment ...

... an inquiry at St. George's Hospital as to the death of John Shaw, a painter, emaployed at the Exhibition building, who was killed on Frida~y week. Deceased, with thirteen other painters, wvas at work on the thhd stage upon the east transept reof, painting ...

... he should commute her punishment to perpetual imprisonment, as implored to do by his friends, or allow her to go to the scaffold. But let us see what was the nature of the case. Madame Tiquot weas no mere vulgar malofactoress. So remarkable were her ...

... conspiracies and as many plots, which spoil a reign; but that was the fault of the Republicans. Some 3oo,ooo of these had been killed in different massacres-a fair number, but not enough. It was tiresome, too, to have to keep three cohorts in a city where ...

... conspiracies and as many plots, which spoil a reign; but that was the fault of the Republicans. Some 3000ooo of these had been killed in different massacres-a fair number, but not enough. It was tiresome, too, to have to keep three cohorts in a city where ...

... bad time of it, and generally finishes his career, not indeed on the scaffold, which would be too hard upon him, but at his own time and place and by his own hand. I will not kill myself now, says the murderer in L'Affaire Lerouge, When his father ...

... other but that the one was killing the other; a hundred fell into the Tower ditch, and some ran away for fear. In the midst of the confusion Sir Anthony Broune was seen forcing his horse through the throng to. wards the scaffold, and above the clamour rose ...

... the shop windowv, a plain proof that a bear had just been killed for grease. The next morning another bear was brought hack from the docks, and de- posited in the area, in his turn: to be killed, and so on. But the truth was at last discovered. There was ...