... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... KILLED BY A FALL. Dr. David Dunn Stewart, after attending a patient at the tatter's house at Brighton, walked to the lift opening without noticing that the lift was not there. lie fell to the basement, a distance of ten feet, and was killed. At the inquest ...

... STATION t ISAslEta. MANY KILLED AND INJURED. A terrible disaster, involving lamentable loss of lite and injury to many people, occurred on Tuesday afternoon at the Charing-cross terminus of the South-Eastern and Chatham Railway Company. A great mass of ...

... other six, standing on a scaffolding eighty feet from the surface, were removing the rings from the sides when the shaft caved in. and an avalanche of earth and masonry fell with a noise like thunder. breaking down the scaffolding and precipitating all the ...

... negligence on anyone's part, and the jury would have no difficulty in getting a verdict that Flint was killed accidentally by falling from the scaffolding. The jury returned a verdict of Accidental death, adding their or inion that no blame was attached ...

... Thomas Moreland. hr.( layer's labourer, who were killed on Friday in last week by lightning at Failsworth. James Lowe stated that he was engaged on the same job as the deceased, and they were working on a scaffold twenty-two feet from the ground. About three ...

... master painter, for dsmagel for the death of her husbond, who was in Cm dden(laut's employment. Hughes was killed by falling from a scaffolding, and it was alledged that the defendant, ;who had superintened its erection, had been negligent. A verdict ...

... moving or carrying goods In warehouses, /to.; one killed and 97 injured while working at cranes or capstans ; two killed and 888 injured by the falling of waggondoors, lamps, hales of goods, &c.; one killed and 2:9 injured by falling off, or when getting ...

... in its results. While 20 men were engaged on a scaffolding, erecting a county.court house at liockford, llliucie, • portion of the building gave way, and the scaffolding fell with a heavy crash, killing 12 men and injuring several others. ...

... the unopened Covent Garden Station of the Piccadilly, Brompton, and Great Northern Railway, on Sunday, when part of the scaffolding which they were seated on gave way, and one of them fell 130 ft. down the shaft, four tons of debris following and crushing ...

... HAWS 13 FEET FALL. While engaged on erecting a scaffold in a workshop at Kirkbride Aerodrome on Monday morning, Albert Frederick James Flint, joiner, Greyhound Inn, Burgh-by Sands, fell 18ft., and was killed almost instantly. It appears he was moving a ...