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... 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 ...

NEW POEM BY OSCAR WILDE

... casts at the sky. That fellow's got to ewing, the voice of a fellow prisoner whispers. He had killed the woman he loved. And then C 32 says:- Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, ~omnd do it with a bitter look, Some with a ...

THE DRAMA IN PARIS

... spite of the unlawful ambition with which they have endowed him. He is finally killed in a duel, and the real Pascal de la Garde reappears to send his wicked uncle to the scaffold, for his life has teen saved, thanks to the cleverness and care of a lawyer ...

Published: Sunday 02 April 1876
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1698 | Page: 4 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE GREAT EXHIBITION

... to give way, and in an instant the scaffold toppled over, and the greater portion efthe poor fellows were thrown to the ground, a height of ?? distanee For some few minutes it mvas feared that the mein wvere killed A number of police and the more forta- ...

SATURDAY NIGHT'S THEATRICALS

... Abbe Latour, whose machinations have throughout been directed against Catherine as well as himself, and after killing him, goes to the scaffold in lien of the offspring of the woman he has never ceased to love. The story is thus one of self. sacrifice, ...

TERRIBLE ACCIDENTS AT THE PARIS EXHIBITION

... ~EinngjBLl ACCIDENTS AT THE PArIS EXHIBITION. Nines people wetS killed, and many inu ed. by the co6llapso of a bridge at the ?? on Sunday. The scene trheaciadent is situated at the oxtreme of the e hibition on the southern Old Of thel xhibt Seine. The ...

AMERICAN THEATRICALS

... 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 ...

Published: Sunday 16 December 1860
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 812 | Page: 13 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

Scraps

... but the winter was so mild that no severe weather set in till late in the spring. An extra- ordinary number of bears were killed on the icebergs, but few whales were caught, as the heavy masses of floating ice prevented boats from putting to sea. Eider ...

Published: Saturday 11 March 1876
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1098 | Page: 7 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE WRECKERS; OR, MARTIAL LAW

... father, and is forgiven, aid lie is on the vay to the scaffold, whets Jim Dornitosa falls at the feet of the Jddge and confesses all, being supported in his statement by Slog. Ned Gaston attempts to kill Dornton, and is shot down by Sir Gilbert Seymour, and ...

Published: Saturday 13 December 1884
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 998 | Page: 15 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

NEW BOOKS AND NEW EDITIONS

... and Hildegarde. The last-named heroine throws herself into a convent on hearing a false report that her lover has been killed in battle ; he returns when he can see her no more except by glimpses like Sclhiller's Ritter Toggenburg. Plectrude receives ...

THE GREY MAN OF AUCHENDRAYNE

... Kennedies had the King's private permission thus to come through the town under arms. When we arrived at the place the tall scaffold had already been set up at the cross, 'and even ere we arrayed us- first about it, many a candle had begun to wink here and' ...

Published: Saturday 20 June 1896
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 6196 | Page: 14 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

SIGNOR TITO MATTEI'S NEW OPERA

... save her Majesty's honour, is to die on the same scaffold a few hours later. It is night. Maria di Gand is over- whelmed with grief and remorse. The rensembrance of H-orley, who has already been killed, the thought that an innocent woman is about to die ...

Published: Sunday 22 July 1877
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1765 | Page: 11 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture