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Bo'ness Journal and Linlithgow Advertiser

COURT OF SESSION

... £5OO at common law, or £258 compensation under the Employers’ Liability Act, in respeet of the death of James Hall, who was killed on the 234 November last. The deceased was in the employment of the defenders, and on the day in question was engaged in adding ...

EXECUTIONS

... woman and Clews had lived together, but becoming jealous he lay in wait for her with & hatchet and killed her. The culprit walked firmly to the scaffold, and died apparently instantaneously, Berry was the cxecutioner. ...

A COCK WITH A MEMORY

... persons were killed and 490 injured ; 44 of the killed and 378 of the injured being passengers. Of these five were killed and 25 ipjured by falling | between carriages and platforms—viz, three killed | and 16 injured when getting into, and two ...

A HORRIBLE PIE

... were tried for their share in the business, and eight were hanged. It is said that, on the scaffold, one of them, addressing the Sheriff, said, “ You are going to kill us now, but you will not live much longer yourself.” Very soon after the engineer of the ...

FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE FORTH BRIDGE WORKS

... Street, Leitk. All appears to have gone right with those men until one o'clock, when the hooks of oune of the ends of the scaffold suddenly gave way. The result was that Syme, O'Neil, and Watson fell a distauce of 140 feet, while the other three ien asped ...

COURT OF SESSION

... £5OO at common law, or £258 compensation under the Employers’ Liability Act, in respect of the death of James Hall, who was killed on the 23d November last. The deceased was in the employ neunt of the defenders, and on the day in question was engaged in ...

bim, meet where they would; had been the bearer of an official order from the great warrior to Sir John

... reply on one occasion ; * but all the clergy men in the country shall never convince me that I break a command of God by killing game which is destroying the produce of my garden—my main dependence for paying my rent. It's against reason and common sense ...

SCENE AT AN EXECUTION

... was of a passionate disposition, having killed his victim with an iron bar. Quarrelling bad been heard by the neighbours, and Upton was seen chasing his wife with the bar, he having rreviously threatened to kill her. He was knocked down, and the bar taken ...

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

... thousand inhabi. tants of Madrid, mostly women, assembled on Saturday morning outside the great prison walls opposite the scaffold upon which a woman was to be executed. According to Spanish custom, this was done b strangulaticn. The criminal sits on a ...

FRIDAY, JULY 18, 1890,

... trouble, in driving nearly all the whales ashore, l the total catch being estimated at nearly 160. Some of the whales were killed in deep water and sunk, but 90 came to the surface next morning and were secured. | At Silkstone, near Barnsley, Erhnim Garnett ...

A PATRIARCHAL FAMILY

... his assistant, were decorating a staircase at Mount Florida, Glasgow, on Monday, when the scaffolding gave way, and Campbell fell tour stories and was killed. M:Phail dropped only 10ft. At Brintnf Police-court on Monday two men nemed Evans and Doyle ...