... early, two of the workmen engaged on tile rti way works ascended the scaffold erected for the ?? ' laying thie iron roofing on the goods shed, a h eigih t of forty I feet. The scaffold was kept up by a pole, su'tale1d at I E each end by the iron girders ...

... 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 ...

... courageous. You'll say, I have killed a man. Marlborough killed his thousands, and Alexander his millions; Marlborough and Alexander, and many others who have done the like, are famous in history for great men. But I killed one solitary man. Ay, that's ...

... had become of him. None of these strangers present knew Asano's name. There were three or four men killed in the Atlas Chamber, said one. Killed ! Graham understood only slowly. He stared vaguely at the moving figures about him. The little active ...

... for some time maintained excellent order; but success spoiled his followers; and treachery completed their rain. Cade was killed by a loyalist named Idea, in the Wolds of Kent, a price having been set upon his head. Archamber headed an insurrection in ...

... respite. The English live in the Future. They have neither a Past nor a Present. They are perpetually hard at work on the scaffolding, and up the ladders, building houses for their childran to pull down, and build up again for the generation that is to succeed ...

... the ausesed instance, which occurred at New Orleans, of LYNCH LAW. They-think little of uhnmen' life,iand talk as coolly of kill- ig a man, ras of eating their dinners, I am speaking of the young men of the place;' 'One day a Carter, who rhad 'been e ...

... profited-and thus civilization was advanced. Eleven years later (in 1864) I had to report for the MorssinlS6ar the public killing (as Douglas Jerrold called hanging) of Franz Mnller. That morn- ing was devoted by the Government to public instrae. tion ...

... wife, refuses to live after her dishonour, and commits suicide. Dave is demanding justice when Paul turns up. Dave trys to kill Paul, but is prevented, Paul being locked up, and Dave going back into the Bush with the body of his wife. The company then ...

... occupier, the late Squire Crossley, who had to bell the place to pay his father's debts, and joined some foreign army and was killed in battle ; how his wife soon after died, Ald the only one left of the family was their son, Mr Gilbert Crossley ; how Mr ...

... verge of death, as he has fought a duel and killed his antanis. without witnesses, which, by an edict of Cardinal Rio elieu's, amounted to murder. The cardinal has given the option between death on a scaffold and fall- ing honourably and as became a soldier ...

... leaps from a window, and joins his comrades on the scaffold. Immediately before this point is reached, howvever, Karloo, in fulfilment of a solemn promise which he has given to Rysoor to discover and kill their betrayer, plunges a dagger into the bosom of ...