... Dunfermline. Six men were standing on a temporary scaffold, 18 feet high, erected for the purpose of taking down a brick wall which was damaged by the late storm. The bricks were placed on the scaffold as they were remeved, and the result was that owing ...

... the remains. In 1870, Casimir Vignat, a farmer at Pont-Roge, kills his wife and cuts her into forty pieces which he scatters over his land. Lest, however, the smell should betray him, he kills a sheep suffering from the footrot, and mixes its fragments ...

... but why should th ey be necessary, when it is a favourite tenet of the Church of Rome that she is infallible and unchanging? kill that if it was necessary, and she had the chance, he would enact over and over again all the murders a) id cruelty perpetrated ...

... in to the gull,we. The y I, the Infantry being 01.41 Nl' Willa 11, W14..K.'11. At ten to ten the waggon halted behind the scaffold sad the prisoner got out, sod Black Jim mounted the stake first, and were placed on the hand side of the platform, facing ...

... morning. The prisoner made no confession of his guilt, and preserved a courageous demeanour to the last. He walked to the scaffold without showing any fear. The crimes for which Pranzini was on Wednesday executed in Paris were committed on March 17th. ...

... jumping on her feet she staggered once or twice, and when partially recovered, and found it came from me. ,he exclaimed, Don't kill me, Bridget, and grasped me by the throat to struggle with me for her life. During this time I bit her on the cheek to make ...

... Cardiff of the official receipt for the sum of Is. ad. subscribed for the benefit of the widows and orphan children of those killed in the recant Beath Wales disaster. - AIR RIFLE CLUB.—The members of the Queen's !fend fir Rifle Club held their supper on ...

... near Brierley Hill, on the body of Henry Griffiths (36), sinker, who resided there, and who, on the previous Saturday, was killed by a fall down the shaft at No. 2 pit in the Hanley Colliery, belonging to the Earl of Dudlay. Mr. W. B. Scott (Assistant ...

... appeared that there were some repairs going on, and he contrived to get on to the top of the debtors' priaon by means of a scaffold pole, and remained concealed until night, when be dropped of the wall, a height of 20 feet. EXTRAORDINARY or LIOFITNING.—A ...

... moment became ferocious. The previous day he had written to the officer asking for prussic acid, stattug that he wished to kill himself to spare his family from shame, and offering scum of 1,0001. for that service. till the mote cloy he wrote to his brother ...

... happened on Thursday afternoon in at the King Pit, beloaaing.to Ilvesra Jonatluin Blundell and Son, when 35 Of the workmen were killed and the the Certiliceted Ilaasger, and the Underlooker at this Ok three of the hand al explorer., also loot their lives In ...

... ways obligated he must. He is but a little mossel, and If I were to get the little creature to work I should have to get a scaffold for him to stand on to reach, and with that it would be like murder-work as you may say. It don't agree with children at ...