... More Children Die on the Roads Despite the decrease in motoring, more children are killed in road accidents than in peace-time. Every 10 minutes of the day a child is knocked down and injured on British roads. - These statements are made by Mr Noel Baker ...

... Lochaber tragedy A 2]-year-old Fort William man was killed after his car left the AB2 Fort William to Inverness road on Sunday. - Alistair Russell Mac Allister of 42b Aima Road was travelling alone in his Renault when his car spun off the road while ...

... Many, perhaps most, of our readers will have heard more or less of a Lidnnppad child named Charley Ros#, whose fate in 1574 interested the whole American Union. The child has never been recovered, thouzh the kidnappers have been traced, and one of them ...

... the amonnt of £5 to Rev. Donald MacKinnon, The Manse, Stornoway, on behalf of the wife and child of Frivate M. Mac Lean, No. 2759, of the Seaforths, and killed at Magersfontein. Mrs Mac Lean lives with the father of her husband, who isa crofter or squatter ...

... reported this week. In Dundee a man named Urquhart murdered s little child, two years of age, by literally kicking 1t to death ; in Manchester a bricklayer, named M'Donough, killed his sister by pulling her from a stool and striking her head violently ...

... Boston Spa, which resulted in the expulsion of a child from a national school for havi tefused to curtsey to tha clergsman's wife. He bi traced the to some priza poultry belonging to the vicar's wife being killed by a cat. ...

... street said him, ‘What is the matter, C »ok He said, ‘ Oh, I have killed the wife.’ also said to the in charge, *1 have killed one the best women in England; but she took lot of killing, she w»s fresh from the country.’ He likewise remarked that had been ...

... birds. There is no more depressing characteristic to contemplate in a child than that of disregard for the suffering of animals. One feels that the child who will wittingly injure or kill an animal or hird, is acting under the sadistic instinct, deep rooted ...

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... neighbours thought that the family had gone away tor • time. On Sunday afternoon, however, the younger child was seen by a neighbour outside the house. The child wore nightdress, which was blood-stained. She seemed to be dased, and piteously asked • neighbour ...

... prisoner’s wife said to prisoner, *“ You have killed my child, my bonnie child. That is your drinking.” His re l'y to his wife was, I struck the child, but di£l t mean to ingun it. The blow was meant for you.” The child died the same night ...

... snatched the child from the cradle, but the good woman used a lethal weapon so well that she got the credit of killing the last wolf in Rannoch. Such are some of our legends that may be centuries old. As far as records go, the last wolf killed in Scotland ...