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... lightly up the steps lendiag to the scaffold, and of his own accord placed himself under the beam. The executioner at once proceeded to adjust the ripe round the eulprit's nee:, and was ebout to retim fruit the scaffold when he seemed to remember that he ...

Published: Saturday 21 June 1856
Newspaper: Folkestone Chronicle
County: Kent, England
Type: Article | Words: 3157 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

BICYCLES FOR SALE AND WANTED

... Is. each. —Apply, Dat v Star and Garter, m 25 CAPTAIN FRANK HARRISON. Wyecot, Pedigree Poultry Farm, Brook, Ashford, Kent.—Killings, R.f. Reds (Golden Measures), 10s. 6d.; White Leghorns (Barron-s), Bs. 12 or 15; carriage paid; mating list »ent free; vacancy ...

Thursday July 29th 1993 Ring the newsdesk on Folkestone 850999Dover 240660 PAGE 7 Pounds roll in as the lbs ..

... Mr May’s widow Kathleen told the coroner’s court her husband had worked as a scaffolder at a Chatham dockyard from the 1930s to 1954 The work had involved erecting scaffolding in ships’ engine rooms where asbestos was present in insulation and lagging ...

Du. 6, /666.1

... been within my knowledge or belief a personal encounter of any kind whatever, on board of any train in Georgia, nor a person killed within the State in a duel, on the line or off the line of railroads, within the last ten years. The Nisha of the 18th says: ...

Published: Saturday 06 December 1856
Newspaper: Folkestone Chronicle
County: Kent, England
Type: Article | Words: 780 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Th ursdayV Nov&mbet' 1996 Ring bureentral hewscfeikbri (01303) 85D999 PAGE 3 Veteran will miss Sunday ..

... has vowed to leave the area after her pet cat was savagely beaten to death Sue Clarkson claims her tabby cat Charlie was killed by sadists at the weekend Now she says she's had enough and is set to move out of the area to escape such sickening thuggery ...

EXECUTION OF THE WALWORTH MURDERER

... would be to say that I did it; and he then again asserted that his mother was the guilty party, and that he was ob!iged to kill her in his own defence. Another singular incident took place late on Saturday night. The public are aware that ever since the ...

Published: Saturday 08 September 1860
Newspaper: Folkestone Chronicle
County: Kent, England
Type: Article | Words: 1774 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

HOUSES AND BUSINESSES WANTED

... 3ilbs.. lid.—Kearn. 49. High-st., Folkestone. T7IIELD GATES. BARROWS, LADDERS, .T all kinds of Wheelwrights’ Requirements, Scaffold Poles, English and Foreign Timber, all descriptions and sizes; prices on application.—Frank Davies and Co., Ashford. n ...

RETAINING WALL COLLAPSES

... the whole of the wall from coming down. Workmen had been previously engaged working on the wall, and they had erected scaffolding and other supports. They did not work on Saturday, although they came there. It was indeed fortunate that they were not ...

LITERARY EXTRACTS. In a Criminal Court.—ln the court the gas lit and glints on the yellow woodwork ; the windows

... look purpleblack against the white walls; the wooden galleries are full. There iu the dock sits the prisoner, charged with killing his wife by drown- Uig : the head and face of good workman, though all accounts a bad husband. He sits quite calmly, like ...

A MURDERER'S CONFESSION

... making myself master of the money I supposed he had on board. I had killed men; yes, and boys, too, many a time before, for far less inducement than the sum I supposed I should gain by killing them; and I had too often dyed my murderous hands in blood in days ...

Published: Saturday 04 August 1860
Newspaper: Folkestone Chronicle
County: Kent, England
Type: Article | Words: 1566 | Page: 4 | Tags: none