... Wakefield told the prison chaplain that he committed the murder because he was tired of his life. He behaved very firmly on the scaffold, and prayed fervently. Harwood was the executioner, and death was instantaneous. THE EARTHQUAKES AT SMYRNA. A correepondent ...

... said the frontage support scaffolding paid for with a 100 per cent £46239 grant from the St Neots Conservation Area Partnership Panel in 1997 would remain for now “It is in a very dangerous and unstable condition and the scaffolding will hold it up until ...

... paupers are punished with? If they are to be reduced to workhouse-diet, their exercise must be discontinued, last it should kill them. The cheaper and mom merciful plan would be to hang them at not,. Toe present keep of convicts is so deer that the Government ...

... the end of the hedge. After watching for some time he heard the defendant Virgin exclaim Look up , kill it I Widnes, then interposed, wing Don't kill the poor little things, let these Ars Immo BETIMACIS.—CACeaats. —ne A obi* Mb. of welt adapted 1., ...

... Marwood, the executioner, Who pinioned Lim in the condenuntd co', sod ou the completion of the promu the pm. melon to the scaffold started, it Ironic precede.l by tho gueerwo ~ f the %Bor, toe mider and the cha..lain, the latter read* the floral Service ...

... informed yin in my Ina letter that three convicts were lying in gaol under sentence of death—two for shooting with intent to kill while trying to rob a bank in open day, and the third for shooting his partner deed while, In the presence of several friends ...

... foot of the scaffold; the sheriffs and under-sheriff. preceded him, the Rev. Mr. Davis reading the burial service, and the prison bell was the signal to the crowd that the execution was about to take place. On arriving at the foot of the scaffold, a difficulty ...

... of unequalled atrocity ; that she had even taken her mother's life for the sake of money ; granted, in fact, that she had killed a fellow creature (which is the highest point of view from which murder is regarded by the law), is it not a blot upon oar ...

... not answering their phone The Cowards are reported to have been so disturbed by the killings that they are considering leaving Future of pub is in balance SCAFFOLDING has been erected at the Six Bells pub at Fulbourn which was badly damaged by fire The ...

... first the prisoner alleged that the woman had bees unfaithful to him, and expressed his intention of killing bee. In the second he stated that he bad killed her, but he hoped that they would meet in heaven, and he trusted that her fate would be warning to ...

... ion, alone eating much food. They were then removed to a room a door of which opens out upon the steps leading up to the scaffold. In this room they were pinioned by the executioner, who assumes the name of Anderson, but who is generally known as Calcraft's ...

... SCENES AT AN A Cleettait p :rr Wes $ n sooonnt of the execution et Mamba. of J a Iwo, in. the murder of • awed Ail - - - - The scaffold had bent sweated at the head of a ravine, about a quarter el • mile south Harrison, in such • position that bills rose oa ...