... in the passage, and it started without delay to the scaffold, the chaplain mean- while reciting the prayers suitable to the occasion ein a loud and earnest tone. At the end of the ilpassage the scaffold in teopen air was visi.ble. It- e-was reached by the ...

... extraorilinary mortality among the wives, that these fine old Irish gentlemen, finding matrimony was killing them, put an end to the evil by killing their spouses. Paoeaass or Naw Yoaa AND Livanrona. - The progress of these two cities, so closely connected ...

... station wito no companion except a turnkey. Instantly a shout 1 was made of The hangman, The hangman, Murder the ruffian, Kill him. The groaning and booing were terrific. Some police who were in the raihlwy station rushed out, and it was with the greatest ...

... adviser. He was, however, rmade aware of the fact that efforts were being made -to save him from an ignominisus death upon the scaffold, and on more than one occasion inquired of the offi cials of the gaol if they thought the petition tothellomeSeicretarywould ...

... what has already appeared upon the subject. The culprit down to the last moment continued to assert that ho did not intend to kill the deceased, and that hunger and distress drove him to c omm itthecrimeofrobbery. s estated that the deceased knew him very ...

... Hull, fell into the hold of the steam- ship Clio, of that port, lying in the Tyne Dock, and was killed.-John Atkinson, a shipwright, was working on a scaffold alongside a ship in the MideDocic, South Shields,,when he fell and was d, In 'ft ce at ed it, ...

... from the gallows; but speedily *vl! recovering himself, he said he was preparedl 1 i sto die, and that hce was drunk when hie killed the 3 ter girl. Subsequtently to this he paid great attentconSI uig to the chaplain's ministrations, and on $iunday of go ...

... task to con. ttsnplate such a terrible career; bu 'itthe sad bistoiy of the unhappy young man who expiated his crimes on the scaffold is specially revolting. Gregs6in'e life since he reached the years of adolesoeiidellhas been such as couldonlylhavelan ending ...

... at work on a scaffold nailing laths at a new building in Naylor-street, when the plank on which he stood upset, and he fell to the ground. He was removed to the Northern Hospital, where he died the same day.-Verdict, Accidentally killed.: On the body ...

... Thursday at noon. y ?? there, he, made, strange work in the garden, and !Ses ?? killed afavouiite dog of his own.' He repeatedly said the in erdevil had often tempted him- to kill his wife, and' ha hadwe otie lifted his,hand to do it many times, but the Lord ...

... head. He then said he would have her llfe, that he had been in taol nine months for assaulting her and he would die on the scaffold for her yet. She had been married to him for 17 years, and during thattimehehad behaved very violently to her. Latterly ...

... hd no idea' ,of murdering Newport' Theywaled o incompany together, and crossedi othe Christian field. Here it ?? hewroulzd kill the decesed as thewis hemiht dolin f is robbing him' andhe oul prhas b tansortd.Determined- to get rid of Newport hetruck him ...