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DARING ESCAPE FROM MILLBANK PENITENTIARY

... placed against the brickwork, enabled him to get over the boundary wall, close to which are the premises of Messrs. Mowlem and Burt, con- tractors. For a longtime past the prisoner must have worked at loosening the masonry and brickwork at the top of his ...

DEEADFUL DEATH IN A CESSPOOL

... buiilder, to cove~r It over. He gave him dfireoions to d o it with brins and mortar. Be told him to take off 5!t. of-the brickwork and to commence building, leavlng about 21it. of mould en the top. He let the bouse to a Mr. Hollanby, who emptied the privy ...

THE LATE TERRIBLE ACCIDENT AT THE RATCLIFF GAS-WORKS

... 7 column, witness found that the top of the outside of the brickwork was licked oat. It was the effect of the accident, and not the cause, Witness found that the back part of' the brickwork wras sound and perfectly upright. If the gasholder swayed on ...

EXTRAORDINARY ROBBERY

... only with the .ituati n of cite cyliade deriefg b coins, but alro with brickwork and ma'ofry. The werk ia that the robbers weae no- cruehea by the ball of the bellY mass of brickwork above tt c stnes, 84 to e shores Put in ot them a' supports, to enaale ...

THE WESTMINSTER BUILDING DISASTER

... constructed, and the differc must have been made-up with thin pieces of bricks, &c. The brickwork at the 8ide of the gunders was composed of cut bricks. The beond of the brickwork was hbroen im evey cae horizontally And vertically. Tte per wa out of alproportion ...

THE FIRE AT WHITELEY'S

... expansion of the ironwork, due to the intense heat caused by the fire. The girders were not put into pockets, but into the brickwork. Had they been put into pockets they would not have expanded and brought the wall down. Mir. W. B. Lewis, ?? stated that ...

FATAL ACCIDENT IN THE CITY

... weight by the rain which had fallen.- George Kerry, carpenter, gave evidence to the effect that the ?? was resting on solid brickwork, and that the ballast was .shot oil the top of the arch from wheelbarrows. The ballast was pat oss a por- tion of the ...

THE LATE SCAFFOLD ACCIDENT

... '10in. in length'ad'3in.'desplin.' projecting on the inside and' i9n. on the outside.' Above the stone core there.is 6in. of brickwork, and six inches above that is the wall. The last six inches menitioned extend oat one foot two inches. ' The last time I ...

SINGULAR CASE OF SUFFOCATION

... could recognise the odour of cyanide of potassium. There is another crack isn the brickwork of the house wall, through which also this vapour is pass- ing. The brickwork of the wall is so loose that any dis- charge of vapour or gas from the furnace might ...

SHOCKING ACCIDENT

... actually reacbed the top-teo upper part of the sbaft was seen to bulge outwardly, and immediately afterward c an immemo mass of brickwork fell both out. nide ad inside the shaft, covering a number of the labourers who were ontside and those who were in ide tbe ...

ESCAPE OF A BURGLAR FROM MILLBANK

... against the brickwork, enabled him to get over the boun- dary wall, close to which are the premises of Messrs. Mlowlemu and Burt, the large contractors. For a lone time pat the prisoner must have worked at loosening the masonry and brickwork at the top ...

THE LATE FALL OF HOUSES in TOTTENHAM COURT ROAD

... By Mr. Robinson: If the chimney stacks and fifteen feetof brickwork were taken down it would materially diminish the danger of the wall. I should think the wall, with the removal of this brickwork, would be sufficiently sound to underpin without pulling ...