... was withdrawn. Redding having at that moment dropped the handkerchief. The scaffold faced the temporary bridge on which the crime was committed, and Doolan, mounting the scaffold, looked for a moment earnestly at it. Redding appeared die almost instantaneously ...

... cherishes riots It condemns laws— spurns order—and loses mobs. It crowds your penitentiariesand furnishes the victims for sour scaffolds, it 11 fa-blood of the gambler—the aliment of the counter, feiter—the prop of highwaymen—and the support of p,,, midnight ...

... gaol, and exhibited a striking array. The attendance our country gentry was numerous. As each of the culprits ascended the scaffold (with the exception of Patrick Phelan, who observed a sullen silence,) protested in strong terms liis innocence the crime ...

... Since 1 became priest, never attended conv ids on the scaffold, but one occasion. Two I men were executed Montreal in 181- lor the murder soltfvr. The two wire guilty; one of them said nothing the scaffold ; the oilier declared his innocence, although I knew ...

... afterwards found innocent. There was another servant girl who was unjustly executed for theft. The recording annals of the scaffold could produce many such instances. In Hale . I lea, Crown, vol. 1. p. *9O. a case stated was Ins. A. was long missing, and ...

... law would not, could not if it would, kill the soul, and—but thou knowest wltal passes between tliv brotherhood and llie condemned, thou knoweit what thou dost promise to the penitent culprit—and, therefore, to kill a roan for his crimes would lilting, ...

... other Magistrates uflhe Cuunlv of Kirrv, founded njiDn the verdict oflld' Tn which wc.s held on the Imul'ics two men who were killed hv the Military and Police an affray at tile Kern Election, in June last, have Keen the tirand Jury, after iiivesthfation ...

... FRANCE Another attempt hasbeen the life of thcKing. The terrible example of Lecompte, who ®o recently fofeiled his life on the scaffold, lias not prevented a repetition the crime. Two pistols were fired at his Majesty in rapid succession as he stood in the ...

... from considerable height and was killed the spot. He had been on the scaffold with the slator, when it gave way, and both w ere precipitated to the ground ; the slutor and a beam tell on Johnston, and instantly killed him lias left wife and six nr seven ...

... murdering her husband, a servant killing his master, ecclesiastical person (either secular or regular) his superior, to whom he owes faith and obedience; and the statute of the twenty-fifth, the same King, a servant who kills his master after he has left ...

... largely attended by the friends this valuable society. We hear that one of the carpenters employed at Rossfad, fell from a scaffolding on Friday last and was severely hurt, but is now recovering from the injury. A poor Woman drowned. —LastjSalurday evening ...

... houses there, when a parapet wall fell the scaffold which they were, and carried scaf fold and men to the street, from the third story. Of seven plasterers and labourers, who were involved in the fall, one was killed on the spot, and two others died very shortly ...