... deep sorrow for his desperate act. Ever since his conviction Durling appears to have declared that he had no intention to kill the deceased, and that if he had not been drunk he should not have thought of commiting such an act towards her. He has been ...

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

... that the disagreeable event could not be avoided consistently with the provisions of the law. These two men, who barbarously killed an old woman to get possession of her savings, amounting to about £2OO, were publicly guillotined yesterday morning in front ...

... up the stairs, knocked his hod against the plank, and in trying to steady it lost his balance, fell down the well and was killed. The question was whether his death was due to such a defect in the condition of the works or plant used in the business ...

... 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 ...

... execution took place on Saturday morning, at eight o'clock, in the presence of an estimated number of 15.000 persons. The scaffold was erected on the gaol wall, facing Newgate-street, that street and the adjoining one—Patriotic-street—being divided into ...

... Standley was engaged with, others at work on some scaffolding inside the church, when lie slipped and fell a distance of 37 feet. Fortunately the fall was broken by a ladder, or be must have been killed. Staudley WRS at once picked up and conveyed in a ...

... informed you in soy lent letter thot three convicts were lying its gal 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 hie partner dead while, in the presence of several friends ...

... o'clock on the evening of the 2nd inst. They foaled that the water was below the scaffold. They did not take steps to macrtain the depth of the water below the scaffold. Don't you think it desirable that this should have been donee—We did not think it ...

... criminal on society ? The fault is truly with the present state of the law. That commandment which so plainly says, thou shalt not kill, dencomees the destruction of human life equally under the sanction of human law, as under the behest of one individual , without ...

... into the corn-field with the mother and the child he intended to have killed them both, and he said he believed that the mother was dead before he left, or he should have stayed and killed her. Mr. M. S. Longmore, the under sheriff of the county, accompanied ...

... Switzerland, where he is going to buy an estate. Engineers are now occupied in the Place VendOme taking steps for erecting scaffolding for the reconstruction of , the column. ' The Prince and Princess of Wales arrived at Elvedon Hall, Thetford. on Monday ...