... considerable dis- tance to go to the scaffold, he walked the whole way with a firm quick step. The scaffold was erected close to the spot where executions formerly took place, but, of course, within the wall. The scaffold was draped round with black cloth ...

... been boards placed on the lower scaffolding. This was done after the nian was killed. Robert Woods, a scaffolder, of 30 years' experience, said he had been employed on the building of the Corn Exchange. In such a scaffolding it was customary to keep the ...

... in Great WVincheste.rstree City, and while about 20 men were on the scaffold some heavy cornicizij, which there bad not beea time to secure properly, fe with a crash lpoII the scaffold tearing a portion of it away froil its supports, and dubh. ing tbe ...

... the prisbner.,' tbelatter. said, ',tr is noopso to b~j one so 'tischt. Ha afterwards .expre~ssed; his. regret .at having killed thxe poor vomuan. and'her. child, anid 'said that hedid not know how belcs toiddit7''ut he ?? a tatel by jealousy'. and' 'bastdll ...

... muet have been pressure on the brain. The boy told him that he bad beard on several occasions voices saying to him, Kill her, kill her, and run away; that his mother bai threatened to knock his brains out with a hatchet, and that he acted under ...

... girders 150 feet high when the hooks supporting the scaffold cave way. Three a, of the men fell to the ground, and two, nameot James e Sime, of Danfermliile, and Jo',i, O'Niell. of Eirkliston, rewere killed The third mar', William Watan, was severely injured ...

... wishl to live. He repeated that ?? had nothing to do with the murder, and that lie believed lie killed tile poliemian; but persisted tiatlie never inteided to kill him. Sle ate n tolerable breakfast of bread ndtl butter and hamn, &c., shortly after seven o'clock ...

... the poker In my hand, I struck the fatal blow. I did not wait In the house a moment but ran out directly. I never intended to kill her. On another occasion he said, s I can solemnly state before any earthly judge. and before my ?? one, that I never intended ...

... Duath sentences are not frequent, and exeoouttits still' rarer in Sweden. It is abnub 0 yearsa since e woman died on the scaffold, but on this occasion all those concerned were unanimous tbat the law must have its course. Kiing Oscar, who is himself a ...

... day 1 out of hell was better than being in it. ' She then re- ferred to the other child-the one that had been killed -and said, I have killed poor Sam, and the child as well. I hit it with the hammer. She kept constantly repeating the same words all ...

... murder accidently met the three men coming out of the house of the deceased, t when Royal admitted to him that he lad just killed the old woman. On receiving this information lie went into the house, as he stated, saw the body, and then repaired to his ...

... imprisonment. e The money was paid. e Killinag a Grcphoulnd.-George Anthony Barnes, horse slaughterer Yasley, was charged with killing a greyhound, value £5, the property of Mr. Walter Green, of the same parish, on the 27th July. The Prosecutor said: Iam a ...