... THE SCAFFOLD DISASTER. THE INQUEST. VERDICT OF MANSLAUGHTER. .- 5 The Press Assooiation's Liskeard correspondent c telegraphs that the inquest on the bodies of the I twelve men who perished in the fall of scaffold- t ing from Colbrinioh Viaduct, Menheniot ...

... -A WIFE KILLED BY HER HUSBAND. On Tuesday, at the police court, before Mr. J. S. m Mansaeld, a middle-aged man, named David Jagers, w was charged with having caused the death of his in wife, Oaroline Jagers. Mr. Bluck appeared for the re prisoner. Mr ...

... plenty of them, and the scaffolds and planks were good, there being plenty of them also. The scaffolds In question were made in the usual way. Witness saw the deceased himself make the scaffold that gave way. The cause of the scaffold giving way was one of ...

... who was killed on Thursday by a fall while working at the Tower. It appeared that a, little before ten o'clock in the morning the deceased was working on the 80-foot plat- form or staging. He appears to have removed a portion of the scaffolding at the ...

... Railway in Regent-road. He was engaged in whitewashing the roof, and was standing on a scaffold nearly 40 feet from the ground. In moving from one portion of the scaffold to another, he stepped backwards and fell to the ground, with his f side upon a large ...

... guarrelled with hin wife, and early next morn- ing le struck her two violent blows with a bedpoot on the side of the head, and killed her. Burke was the father of ten: children. Four died some time ago; six are living-the oldest, a youth, being about 18 years ...

... death was returned. FATAL SCAFFOLD Accxn)Ess.-n the body of Vae, Richard Mollcy, 25 years, of age, a painte: L and decorator, who lodged with his rother in Vickers-street. On Monday morning ;hilst working on a scaffolding erected in St. h Micha's Church ...

... tonstreet. On Saturday he was working at a new ship, and fell from tho scaffold the gr.und. One of the planks then fell upon his head, and killed him on ppot. Verdict, Accidentally killed. tho boly Ann, tho wife of George Jones, a living in Qjay-btreet ...

... inquetst B repgcing the deaths of John Bodien, aged 29. of of Widres, andof Joseph Mains, aged 31, of War- ha riugton. who were killed on Saturday by the fall in] of a thirnney stack which they were repairing, sB& 'The chimney was eonnected with Mesrs. Sullli- ...

... was some months ago apprehended in an attempt to rob the house of Captain Mentber, in endeavouring to escape, shot at and killed that gentleman. About 15,000 persons assembled to witness the exeoution. Ac- cording to the repotts, Eggleston, pallid and ...

... ) crime does not pay. The police take for their text the latest Parisian murder, that by the man Cmrrara ad his wife, who killed the colleotor of a bank here, and took his money to pay off their debts. The collector had in his possession £880, and his ...

... Brenton-8treet. Deceased was a plasterer, and last Tuesday was thrown to the ground. a distance of about three feet, by a scaffold on w hih he was standing giving way. He was nut h shaken, but continued at his work as usual. 0n S.tlrday morning, however ...