... midland counties to the metropolis, and to the south coast of England, sod we regret to state that several persons have been killed by the electric laid. We are happy to say that we are not railed upon to record any fatal injury to human life in this immediate ...

... contrition for his crime, and joined with much fervour in the religious exercises of the rev. gentleman who waited upon him. The scaffold was erected on Thursday night, from which time till eight o'clock next morning, when the execution was fixed to take place ...

... at Lower Patricroft, commonly known as the Arley Mine, by which four men were killed and two others severely burned. The four that were killed were working on a scaffold, about 50 yards from the top : they were blown up and fell into the dip hole at ...

... bat, and sword attached to his side. The Sheriff directed the witnesses where to take their places. He then ascended the scaffold for the purpose of seeing that nothing was left undone. _ Twenty-five Minutes to Ten o'Clock.—Everything being ready for ...

... also might but tarry by it. Prithee, never fear, Beeman, , cried he to his old friend Sir Hugh, who was repulsed from the scaffold by the Sherif, I *hall have a place A man bald from extreme age pressed (onward to see him, he said, and pray Oud for ...

... nearly seventy feet, into a cellar beneath, iii his fall striking against, but passing through, the numerous lining. and scaffold poles of the building. His felow workmen rushed to the spot, where they found him bleeding . profusely from the nom and mouth ...

... gentleman, though clad in rather shabby garments, had his scull dreadfully fractured last week by the falling of a briA i o,n a scaffold erected at the house of Mr. B. B. Edgeware Wad, London. lie died on Tuesday, and on Thursday an inquest was held on the body ...

... strong enough to shoot his master. He was tried and condemned, was deaf to the exhortations of the chaplain, and mounted the scaffold with. nerves of Woo ; he bowed to the crowd, who received him with loud cheers; he bowed again, and was still further cheered ...

... eruption of buttons: it is the Proctor—the reasor ;worse. of immacusate Alma Mater —the scourge olden dies and deanireps, a:.d the kill. joy, before whose fell presence the unsober vanish, and pastille's students hide their diminished heads. From Trunapington-street ...

... taken after she had served his infamous design.. Such were the mimes for which the rootlet Ruth was this day hanged upon the scaffold. The conduct and language of such r monster in human form przviciiis to his execution, when opmem.4 by the memory of his ...

... without fear that society , can add to his punishment. To the impulse which prompts to kill in order sot to starve, is added therefore the impulse which prompts to kill, in order not to hang. Self-preservation urges the malefactor to sacrifice the byestander ...

... standing by. The female prisoner followed. She list walked to the scaffold with a firm and unwaverstep A number of county magistrates closed the mournful procession. Luessfirst ascended the scaffold, and on reaching me first flight of steps he paused for a moment ...