... would thug be saved. I have never seen a Man killed and hove overboard, but I have seen Mmin dle Y In their skins, which is just asihad. My oasur was a very clrnmatantial one. If I told you tha, did not I kill Captain Adams you would not believo me ; bti ...

... times. The scaffold wvas nine feet from the ground, the front of It screened w v ith black cloth, which concealed the bodles of the unfor- tunate men from the waist downwards. In front of the I wall, and at some distance from the scaffold, on either I ...

... out. The High Sheriff (Mr. B. F. B. Dykes) had, however, prevented 'te gratifiction of this morbid ouriosity by causing the scaffold to be erected in the old treadmill shad close to the cells where the convicts %rore inoarcerated, and the com- plete seoilision ...

... deceived me. I do not know whether I was right or wrong, but a violent jealousy took possession I of me, and I resolved to kill her first and myself after- wards. ,,I was under the influence of those ideas when I met i her on Wednesday. We went into the ...

... entered the prison yard. He started on seeinge r en the scaffold, but soon regained his composure, j ore and walked with an unifaltering step. He paused n, ny, at the foot of the steps leading to the scaffold, ;& erg bat only for a moment, for at a signal irons ...

... walked with a firm step, and H with his head erect, from the eall to the apartment in which the scaffold was erected. Having been placed on the scaffold, he bade good-bye to Mr.Taylor and the -other warders, whose kindcess towardl him since the trial ...

... the defence, complained of the means taken to exoite the public previously to the trial. suppose that a father would have killed his son in the way described was to suppose that he was a madman. the son wished to save his father he would have stayed away ...

... staed at New Brighton Towver Grounds, the scaffolding upon which he was standing crave way~ owing, it is said, to the force of the wind, and he fell to the ground, a distance of 60 feet.r The unfortunate man ?? killed on the spot. This, we are informed, is ...

... paralysed, and it was not until the Rev. Mr. O'Sullivan excaimed Where is he? and immediately rushed down the steps of the scaffold to where the unhappy man was standing, that they recovered their soattered faoul- ties and took measures for the completion ...

... poisorn, and a die together on the common. The young woman ? refused to do thisi, and the murderer then declared ? that lie would kill her. Ho took hold of her, threw a her down on the ground, placed his knee upon her ? pulled out his pocicet-knife, opened it ...

... bars, and whilst the deceased was passing down a short gangway from the upper scaffold to the main scaffold he slipped his foot and fell over the side of the main scaffold into an iron tank, a distance of about 21 feet, striking on his head, and inflicting ...

... Sefton- street. On Mkonday last the deceased and a man named Joseph Garrett were on a scaffolding erected inside of a new vessel in the yard in Sefton-street. The scaffolding was composed of two ten-inch planks, and was erected about 13 feet from the bottom ...