... Speight. the last Ewerstalt has protested his innocence, but Shaw has admitted his guilt. The latter appeared firm on the scaffold, whilst the former was pale and tremulous. Shaw had drop of seven feet eight inches, and the other culprit one of seven feet ...

... end of the B wing of the prison. A sort of shed had been erected at the rounded end of the building, which contained the scaffold and sil the necessary appliances for carrying out the extreme sentence of the law. The shed directly faced the lofty boundary ...

... vessel making water rapidly, and preparations are being made for saving the cargo. FALL OP A SCAFFOLD. THIS DAY. SEVERAL WORKMEN INJURED. (BY Tei.EI:RAI*H.) scaffold at the gas works at Bangor collapsed at noon to-day. Several workmen were injured, three ...

... come to eloae the goal for the night, and that they muat part. On the scaffold, lapia said, My friends, I am here to-day to die by hanging. I have killed no person, nor helped to kill any one. The people forced the person who was guilty to swear against ...

... attack his wife with a coal pick, and they ran to a neighbour's hoase, and gave an alarm. When arrested he admitted having killed bis wife, and said he would go to the gallows with a light heart. At the trial the children of the un- happy couple spoke ...

... all out 102 TERRIBLE SCAFFOLD ACCIDENT AT MIDDLEEBROUOH. FALL EIGHI V KKKT. THREE MEN KILL On Saturday sad sc ff-d.t accident a C chraue and mpany's Dim* shy Irnnwork*. Middlesbrough. Home work was done which ii«ct-a«italed scaffolding msny f»-et hitfh, ...

... for tha Mayor, and tbe scaffolding was carried up to the third i tore y, Juat before the accident foar men were apon t, two of whom threw down the c intents of two hod* of bricks. This sudden additional weight caused the scaffolding to break, and the men ...

... the perpetration of the crime the murderer repaired to the village inn and coolly an. nouoced to the assembled company, haws killed our Bet. Scarcely crediting the startling statement, two of the men present proceeded to Pedder's house, end there, in the ...

... prisoner that he coolly deliberately fired his gnu his wife while she was the act of cleaning some carrots and potatoes, and killed her dead on the spot. During the interim between the unhappy man's ssntence and execution had conducted himself a manner ...

... heartrending way, hi* groans bf coming louder a* ha waa being conducted from tha cell to the scaffold. Oa emerging into Jthe chapel yard, where he caught sight of the scaffold with a noose pendant from tha cress-beam sap- ported by two uptight*, he became, if ...

... that they had arranged to die together, but after shooting his girl twice, to make a good job of it, he had not the heart to kill himself. The defence was insanity, the prisoner having three times attempted suicide. The jury recommend- ed him to mercy, ...

... TERRIBLE ACCIDENT AT MIDDLESBROUGH, A WORKMAN KILLED, SEVERAL INJURED. A terrible accident occurred ai .Shaw's Wellington Cast Steel Worka, Middlesbrough, yesterday. A new building is being erected, and ornamental iron beams for the roof were being put ...