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EXECUTION OF DANIEL GOOD

... along tise gloomy narrow windings of the gaol to the scaffold, Good frequently implo- ring, in lend accents, :he Almighty to save his soul. He walked with a firm step, and ascended the steps of the scaffold without assistance. The prisoner, on being placed ...

EXECUTION OF THE MURDERER OF MR. PAAS

... Did that one blow kill him ? He said, No, Sir; he did not fall tren, he cried out murder, and opened the shop door, and seized the heavy hammer, and came towards me, and I thought at that moment to myself that be waould have killed me, orat least that ...

LIVEAPOOL ASSIZES

... stabbed her several times in the neiric witis a knife with a round point like a butchers whiitle. Witness said, Barlow, you're killing her.' H'e said lie came witih that intent. .He then took the' knife and began t6 cut ot tire left side ofiser rieck, by drawing ...

BURKING

... months and were killed, I think, by a cat in tie garden, where they got out of'the cage. They were trequent. ly seen running in thes garden, and used to hide in a hole under the privy. I and my wife and children saw one of them killed by a cat in the ...

THE STATE TRIALS

... one said thiat~ in case they, were convicted they would rescue them M Ar. O'Brien a Isaid that he would rather ascend the scaffold than that !any one should lose his life on his -.iccount, 'Witness Iknew at Rev. Mr. Brennan. There was a mid-day, nset- ...