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EXECETIOJr

... t > the platform, he said, Gentlemen, declare in the presence of God and you, that, as certain as lam about to mount this scaffold, I had no animosity agiinst the unfortunate man (.Malcolm).” He then walked up the ladder with a steady step, and immediately ...

Published: Wednesday 11 August 1830
Newspaper: Inverness Courier
County: Inverness-shire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 604 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

SECOND EDITION

... that, if As is killed, no successor will be appointed by:the British Ciovernuout. At -clover, ro Mt Locks:, M.P. —While Mr Locke., Mr Bra.-y, and nth., t:entletn.n were insoecting a tunnel on the Itoun /I,ilwsy on Thursday last he scaffolding gave way, and ...

SCOTLAND

... were engaged in unroofin.r the mansion house of Riddell. consisting of them storeys. the scaffold gave way. all the were precipitated (clung with the scaffold) to the izround. The velocity of the descent having carried them to some distance front the ...

PROVINCIAL

... is at present being re-slated, and the men, as usual, were working upon a scaffold, when, it is said, another man went upon the same scaffold with a skip, which the scaffolding slid down, and three of the men were precipitated head foremost to the ground ...

Published: Thursday 10 September 1863
Newspaper: Inverness Courier
County: Inverness-shire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1436 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

titglanb

... the bottom, it found that the skip had fallen, and had broken through the scaffold below. The bOdiell of the poor fellows—nine in number—were lying in the sump beneath. The scaffold was composed of six-inch oak, and this was broken through se if it had merely ...

Published: Saturday 08 October 1864
Newspaper: Saturday Inverness Advertiser
County: Inverness-shire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1010 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

INDIA

... electric flash may transmit you his exit long before this reaches you. Tantia was to have been hung on Saturday, at 5 p.m., a scaffold having been erected on the encamping ground in front the old Sepoy lines. Maun Sing, who has his tent and his guard some ...

Published: Thursday 26 May 1859
Newspaper: Inverness Courier
County: Inverness-shire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1587 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

SCOTLAND. The Queen has conferral the honour of knighthood on Captain Kincaid, Lispector of Prisons and ..

... moor which he bad concealed on his person, and inflicted some terrible wounds about the girl's neck. Thinking that ha had killed her, he then cut his own throat with such determination as to destroy life almost immediately. The attack was so madden that ...

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE

... place of execution in his shirt, and barefooted—and there, his head covered with a black veil, he shall remain exposed on the scaffold while a huissier reads to the people tho sentence of the court, and shall immediately afterwards be beheaded. Friday evening ...

Published: Wednesday 17 June 1846
Newspaper: Inverness Courier
County: Inverness-shire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1541 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Amusing anti instructibt

... go? A builder, when returning thanks to those who had drunk his health, modestly observed that he was more fitted for the scaffold than for public speak. ins. Arthur, acid a good natured father, I did not know till to day that you bad been whipped ...

Published: Saturday 25 July 1874
Newspaper: Saturday Inverness Advertiser
County: Inverness-shire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 798 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

LITERATURE

... Parliament. But why should the vengeful as to enter into the plota? The “ Ruthven” Earl of Gowrie had ted his crime on the scaffold, but estates and were restored In order to make out @ case James, some to bis family. r ve must be old Perth jealousy was ...

LATEST NEWS

... after a fierce encounter the Papal troops were beaten and pursued to Monte Maggiore, with | heavy loss. Losses of insurgents, killed and 5 wounded. Intelligence from Rome announces that on the night ! of the 12th inst. many arrests were made. There is report ...

Published: Thursday 17 October 1867
Newspaper: Inverness Courier
County: Inverness-shire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1199 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

MISCELLANEOUS-FOREIGN

... immediately around her, she ascended the scaffold, adjusted the rope herself, released a luxuriant head of hair from beneath it, so as to permit it to flow free, and in a moment the cords supporting the scaffold were cut, and she hung suspended between ...