... quarrelled with his wife, and early next morning he struck her two violent blows with a bedpost on the side of the heal, and killed her. Burke was the father of ten children. Four died some time ago; six are living; the eldest, a youth, being about eighteen ...

... from the fact of one of the; wretched culprits being a woman—the first of her sex hung in the colony. Murphy, the convict who killed Constable O'Boyle at Warranambool, beating out his brains with hammer while his back was turned, and then escaped from custody ...

... Midland Counties Drug Company Lincoln Sad Scaffold Accident Coatbridge— Thebe Men Killed. —While four men were working, on Friday night, on a furnace now course of ert-ccion the Calder Ironworks, Coatbridge, the scaffold on which they were standing suddenly ...

... relevancy have not been removed. He, however, thinks it belter that all the facts should be known before answer. Boy Killed the Fall or a Scaffold. —Ob Saturday forenoon an unfortunate accident occurred at the new linoleum works in course of erection Back Street ...

... formed in a hollow square about the gallows, while the prisoners ascended the scaffold and took their s ats with the Sheriff. Several other gentlemen ascended tbe scaffold. I say other gentlemen, for the prisoners appeared very much like gentlemen. They ...

... Row Police Station, stepped into hole in the door of a room on the first storey, falling 50 feet into the basement. He was killed. Earlier in the night, a patrol policeman suspected somebody was inside and called Carter and two other officers. After the ...

... leaked out. Which of them wrote the fatal letter is still a mystery. A few of the plotters escaped to France, the rest being killed or captured in the Midlands. Guy Fawkes was taken to the Tower of London and subjected to every severe torture then in use ...

... from the fact of one of the wretched culprits being a woman—the first of her sex hung in the colony. Murphy, the convict who killed Constable O'Boyle Warranambool, by beating out his brains with a hammer while his back was turned, and then escaped from custody ...

... tubular steel scaffold. After placing blocks of wood above one corner of the girder, did not want to climb down. He therefore hung on to the girder while the men below lifted the scaffold over Witness nut his weight back on to the scaffold and prepared ...

... SERIOUS ACCIDENT AT TIFF FORTH BRIDGE. TWO KILLED AXD HMCMD. Sincc the burning caisson rather more than two vcars » tf o. more serious accident has occurred at the Forth Bridge than that which happened on when two men lost their I other lire were more ...

... A person named Benjamin Hunter, wdio lived next door to prisoner, while in bed, was aroused by the cries of I'll kill you, I'll kill you, you b . Then blows immediately succeeded those expressions, and such blows, too, that this man, Hunter, could ...

... the low scaffold. Before the Sheriff returned a formal verdict. Mr Currie said that this boy was from Orkney, and had been called up for nettonal service, and his death in the circumstances was es much a casualty of war as those who had been killed on the ...