THE HERNE HILL MURDER

... at a bakery at Horne b3Q, Parlonger wan a fellow worker of the p2hsoner', and on the 12th April lost was found to hav6 been killed, having been struck on the bead seeral times with a L'u bar. The object of the murder was to obtain the posnemuion of the ...

EXECUTION OF THE ASSASSIN DE FELICE

... receive, lasted about a couple of hours, and having confessed and taken the sacra- sent in the Conforteria, he was led to the scaffold, the steps of which he mounted with a firm and un- faltering pace. He refused to be blindfolded, looked calmly at the ugly ...

THE FALL OF A HOUSE AT ISLINGTON

... told to call the men off the scaffold, I had been engaged from the Thursday week previous to the accident. I gave everybody waning I saw on the scaffold. The 'dy-did not hear me tell every- body'! tq come off the scaffold, and when I got five doois off ...

TRIAL OF THE COUNT AND COUNTESS DE BOCARME

... proceeded to argue that it was im- possible that a man of the Count's cunning and prudence could have resolved for months before to kill Gustave Fougnies by poison, and yet let him know that lie was constantly engaged in making experiments with poisons. He contended ...

EXECUTION OF NEGRO MURDERERS

... repulsive in the extreme. Both of these men were known to be atrocious murderers. Lucas admitted that he killed two men in the same manner that lie killed Simpson, for whose murder he was convicted ; and yet they claim that justice bad not been done them because ...

THE EXECUTIONS AT KIRKDALE

... firmly forward upon the scaffold. Mr Wright and the Rev xW Appleton were also present. Taylor' was dressed in the same suit of black which he wore during his trial at the assices. He came for a moment to the front of the scaffold, and leaned over as if ...

Published: Friday 19 September 1862
Newspaper: Hull Packet
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1593 | Page: 3 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

THE MURDER OF FITZMAURICE

... daring whiehl operation both nsen protested their innocence.1 On going to the scaffold Hayes declared he was in, no way connected with the murder of Fitzmaurice,j and on the scaffold Moriarty declared thatha wvas innocent of the crime for which he was about' ...

ACCIDENTS AND OCCURRENCES

... trusses. Had we constructed a scaffolding from the ground, in. the way we now propose doing, it would not have been necessary to use these trusses, but we considered this a better and a safer mode,. because to erect a scaffold from the ground 180 feet high ...

CORONER'S INQUEST

... 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 ...

THE MURDERER THOMAS RATCLIFFE

... struck a poor offieer, he swroto, at Portlland, my friends, as yoiu all ,know; but I never dlid it with the least thought of killing hini Thiat is what IsiSywithl ?? dyilig breath. Yen may think a3 yen liko, my friends, but that is the truth''o thirs cou- ...

EXECUTION OF THE ATHERTON MURDERER

... but is now used for executions. Here the scaffold had been erected. About one minute to eight Berry, the executioner, escorted the prisoner, who was accompanied by the chaplain and warders, on to the scaffold. Just as the white cap was being drawn into ...

THE CHARGES AGAINST THE IRISH MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT

... feet. Tho prmises had been run up to their intended height, ad on Saturday morning a number of men were engaged ea the scaffolding, finishing off the ornamental portions of the - exterior walls faing the Goat and Compass when a t. t- riflcerash took place ...