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... Act. KILLED ON THE RAILIVAY.—On }friday, evening. 24th June, about 6.30 P.M. McFarlane (49), blacks.nith, residing at 7 Pansure Place, Etiinhur4h, when walkon the 0 R.. line at a part about yards east of Manor Bridge, was knocked down and killed by the ...

Published: Saturday 25 June 1904
Newspaper: Peebles News
County: Peeblesshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 489 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Mast Maxsioxs, —A yonai SoottUh oljrgynuii, having oooaaion to preach in a few mllec dictant from hla native ..

... the steps the scaffold with but little assistance from the warders. The ropes were quickly adjusted round the necks of the women, the noose being placed under the neck In each case, and within a lew seconds of their arrival on the scaffold the bolt was ...

Published: Saturday 08 March 1884
Newspaper: Peeblesshire Advertiser
County: Peeblesshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1704 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

ing_the min No sooner sound of voi

... crushing the life out of Allan filled her with a fearful horror which chased ,Nature's weakness away. ' Lto not kill him, %Vatter ! Oh, God, do not kill him !' she wildly cried, as from the throat of the writhing wretch there came a gurgling sound of choking ...

Published: Saturday 05 June 1880
Newspaper: Peeblesshire Advertiser
County: Peeblesshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2365 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

PRIVATE DETECTIVE. EDITED By HUAN MEL THE MURDERER'S CIGAR

... worth auythins at his businspos. Now, I had the pleasto e of Iniiitng the most villainous murderers England had seen to the scaffold by the most detail it would be possible to conceive. :In fact the way I like to put it is that I hanged VW man for not throwing ...

Published: Saturday 12 May 1906
Newspaper: Peebles News
County: Peeblesshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1296 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

ADVERTISER AND COUNTY NE WSPAPPIL SATUNDAY, KAY ID, 1882•

... murderous fiend. I tell you, I, Ballestrino• whom you hired to murder Sir John, sad who did not munkr him, but killed him in fair fight, killed him• mark you, Carlo, and the young MO whom you butchered even now has sot one drop of Gordon blood in his veins ...

Published: Saturday 20 May 1882
Newspaper: Peeblesshire Advertiser
County: Peeblesshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3409 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THREE RECRUITS

... died, and she suffered most), to which crime one of the family afterwards confessed on hie deathbed. The poor girl went the scaffold in the cap and dreaa she bad made lor her wedding day, just as ear Jacob Harks had gone to his grave almoet the eve of his ...

Published: Saturday 27 December 1879
Newspaper: Peeblesshire Advertiser
County: Peeblesshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3205 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

A TALE OF TIIE COVENANTERS

... upright nature prompted an I justified - -he was deprived of his property, hunted like a felon, that he might be brought to the scaffold and made the helpless victim of a man who paid no homage to virtue, who possessed not a spark of honour, and who was actuated ...

Published: Saturday 05 June 1880
Newspaper: Peeblesshire Advertiser
County: Peeblesshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2911 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

TAKING

... friends, h ave come for, hut I swear before God that I or relations were, what servants he had kept, am innocent! I never killed my uncle—good and what had become of them, and a host of; heavens, I would been the most ungratm other things that will readily ...

Published: Saturday 12 January 1907
Newspaper: Peebles News
County: Peeblesshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4667 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

ertgritial Vottrp. i grew. Si) way it be said of the Covenanters wider lleuierhile a bet the ebieeehEressirs. ..

... only the conversion of the people they aimed at it was simply compulsion; and the sword, the rack, sad the stake, and the scaffold were what they confidently relied on. Thus the struggle was made a fiendish and fern. cious one, and its history is in this ...

Published: Saturday 09 October 1880
Newspaper: Peeblesshire Advertiser
County: Peeblesshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 7819 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

WEST LINTON,

... been used by the speakers was upset, while being moved by some children down an embankment. A boy, named John Davies, was killed, and several others were severely lust It. Moss, a butler, was charged at the Mary lebune Police Court on Saturday with steeling ...

Published: Saturday 31 July 1880
Newspaper: Peeblesshire Advertiser
County: Peeblesshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 7840 | Page: 3 | Tags: none