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... protest and to accompany the remains 1 four more their unfortunate fellows to the grave. | Of these four three had been killed through scaffold on the fifth floor of house giving way and precipitating them the ground from that greet I height. An hour later another ...

Published: Saturday 25 June 1881
Newspaper: Carlisle Express and Examiner
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1290 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

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... drowned. serious Accident in London.-Six persons nave been killed by a scaffold accident on the new premises erecting for Alderman Waterlow in Great Winchester Street. Above 40 persons were on the scaffold at the time, many of whom were seriously injured Funeral ...

Published: Friday 20 January 1865
Newspaper: Carlisle Journal
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1287 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

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... was killed by a waggon passing over her the road between Carlisle and Wigton, where she lived. She had been twice married—first to a soldier, who was flogged to death in French prison, and then to labourer, who was killed by falling from scaffold. She ...

Published: Friday 05 November 1886
Newspaper: Carlisle Patriot
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1659 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

SHOCKING SCAFFOLD ACCIDENT. -. ONE PERSON KILLED AND EIGHTEEN INJURED

... SHOCKING SCAFFOLD ACCIDENT. -. ONE PERSON KILLED AND EIGHTEEN INJURED. Daring the gale off on Tuesday morning the scaffold round a large shaft in course of erection on the dust wharf of the City Commissioners of Sewers was blow ndown. The poles and boards ...

HYMNS ON THE SCAFFOLD

... HYMNS ON THE SCAFFOLD. NEGRO'S SINGING CAUSES BUNGLED EXECUTION. The execution of a New Jersey negro named Tapley. who bad killed his wife, 'was bungled. Van Hate, the hangman, had invented a patent gallows, which failed to work properly. The victim, ...

Published: Saturday 30 December 1905
Newspaper: English Lakes Visitor
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 162 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

HYMNS ON THE SCAFFOLD

... HYMNS ON THE SCAFFOLD. NEGRO'S SINGING CAUSES BUNGLED EX PrUTION. The execution of a New Jersey negro named Tapley, who had killed iris wife, was bungled. Van thee, the hangman, had invented a patent gallows, which failed to work properly. The victim ...

Published: Saturday 30 December 1905
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 164 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

COOLNESS ON THE SCAFFOLD

... COOLNESS THE SCAFFOLD all the condemned criminals were cool as Wash Washington, who was executed in Texas a few days ago, the executioner's work would become a real pleasure. Wash was coloured man who had killed man and abrudder, and was sentenced to ...

Published: Friday 28 May 1886
Newspaper: Carlisle Patriot
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 142 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

SHADOWS OF THE SCAFFOLD

... SHADOWS OF THE SCAFFOLD. Most Londoners know nothing of the romance or the terror that memories have connected with the most commonplace streets through which flows the daily river of modern life. Little do they dream that in some of the most prosaic ...

Published: Saturday 11 December 1886
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1182 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

THE SCENE ON THE SCAFFOLD

... THE SCENE ON THE SCAFFOLD. The Press Association special correspondent at Winchester telegraphs :—Judging from the outward appearance of her Majesty's prison at Winchester, yesterday morning, nobody would have for a moment suspected what a grim tragedy ...

Published: Wednesday 22 July 1896
Newspaper: West Cumberland Times
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 900 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

FATAL SCAFFOLDING ACCIDENT

... FATAL SCAFFOLDING ACCIDENT. A shocking scaffolding accident, reaulting in iwo deaths, occurred in the Lawnmarket, Edinburgh, on Wednesday. Three slater* were repairing • chimney head when the scaffolding clipped. Two of the men were precipitated into ...

Published: Tuesday 14 February 1899
Newspaper: Penrith Observer
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 175 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

TERRIBLE SCAFFOLD ACCIDENT

... TERRIBLE SCAFFOLD CCIDENT. TWELVE MEN KILL®D. A very distressing accident occurred on Tuesday at Menheniot, on the main line of the Great Western Rail- way in Cornwall. A gang of twe!ve workmen were on an elevated saffold or platform, 140 feet from the ...

Published: Friday 12 February 1897
Newspaper: Carlisle Patriot
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 364 | Page: 3 | Tags: none