... foot of the scaffold; the sheriffs and under-sheriffs preceded him, the Rev. Mr. Davis reading the Burial Service, and the prison bell was the signal to the crowd that the execution was about to take place. On arriving at the foot of the scaffold, a difficulty ...

... that in oonsequence of having been turned out of the publiohous at Chatham he made up his mind to kill the landlady of the Sum, but be thought he would kill some one elm first, and then try to murder the woman afterwards. Ile then met by accident the deceased ...

... the prisoner; but ifyou have read your Bible you will find that not a leaf moves without the will of God. I had resolved to kill the King, but God would not permit it, and, in his stead, I shall die. The will of God be done. The following statement is ...

... to go to the scaffold he walked the whole way with a firm quick step. The scaffold, which is the same as wee formerly rad, waa erected clam to the locality of previous executions, but, of coon*, within the Tall. of the gaol. The scaffold ws draped with ...

... mutinied on an attempt being made to disarm them. Joined by the 13:h Irregular Cavalry and the Sikh Regiment of Loodhiana, they killed Cap'ain Guise, of the cavalry, and attacked the guns of too European company of artillery, but were repulsed by a discharge ...

... Irishmen, gulling on their countrymen to either do or die in endeavouring to accomplish that for which Emmett mounted the scaffold. Ivan address made by Captain Townshend at the dinner given to the ex-mayor of Tamworth, the pliant captain, alluding to ...

... pinioning, and as the time approached for the departure to the scaffold the wretched man engaged in prayer with the chaplain. At last the mournful procession was formed and proceeded to the scaffold, where all the preliminaries having been completed, Seale ...

... which he wamt :iced some time, and then buret lota tear., Half au hair tve faml hour he Li, duct, and said he would mount the scaffold aid he we ts going to his marriage ceremony. In a few however, his tons again altered. and he male a Wet Piteous exhibition ...

... replied that it was a matter of opinion, and defendant then said if he did not come off the scaffold he would throw him on. Defendant then got on the scaffold, pushed complainant against the wall, and struck him in the jaw. The ilefendaut was in drink ...

... lifontAtnig. ERMA) !ranee, which shows that during the 30 years ending in 1863, 2,238 people were struck dead. There were 880 killed during the last decade of the three • of these only 243 were females. When the lightning . falle among • crowd it does more ...

... the minder accidentally met the three men coming out of the boons the deormed. when Royal admitted to him that be bad just killed the old woman. On this information he went into the boure, so besealed, saw tbe body, and then repaired to his own Is tent ...

... South-Western Hotel, now in course of erection in flatlands Park. It appears that several of the foremen were standing on some scaffolding, a portion of which gave way, and they were precipitated to the ground, a distance of about eight feet. By this fall, we ...