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DESPERATE AFFRAY WITH WRECKERS

... wounded with them. Th it names are :—Thomas King, of Ardeast (weaver), killed by a bullet entering his left breast ; married, but had no children. Patrick Fain. of Aeon Island, killed by a bullet entering his right breast ; not married. James M•Donagh. ...

EXECUTION OF MARY ANN corroN

... was not needed, for precisely at eight o'clock, assisted by two warden, she walked with a tolerably firm step towards the scaffold. She appeared very pale. Caloraft and his assistant walked close behind. The white cap was drawn over her face, the rope ...

Published: Saturday 29 March 1873
Newspaper: Stroud Journal
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1102 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

It was the touch of Goa

... and killing one of the first, one of the second, and three of the last named. In the afternoon we put out decoys and sat behind blinds-- or bough houses as they are locally termed—on light pine scaffolding, that is to say, I sat on scaffolding, and ...

Published: Saturday 04 February 1882
Newspaper: Stroud Journal
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2589 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

AN UNFORTUNATE MEMORY

... with resignation and seeming contrition, and as the bell tolled the fatal hour the mournful procession moved towards the scaffold. The Rev. Canon Platt walked with the criminal, and they prayed fervently together. On reaching the drop, at a signal from ...

Published: Saturday 27 December 1862
Newspaper: Stroud Journal
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1102 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

A MYSTERIOUS TRAGEDY IN ITALY

... returned with another priest, both of whom aecompanied tho prisoner to the scaffold. There was a large crowd assembled outside the prison. Docherty, although pale, walked to the scaffold with a firm tread, and, unassisted, took his place under the drop. '.Harwood ...

Published: Saturday 09 October 1875
Newspaper: Stroud Journal
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1837 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

' When all is lost, and even hope is ded.'

... reed a few comedies, and returned to his usual occupation of mending shoes. Flow TO KILL HoG.—Hogs, undoubtedly, were made to be killed,and eaten after they were killed. Bot it is best to do • painful thiog—painful to the animal and to the operator—iu ...

Published: Saturday 20 July 1867
Newspaper: Stroud Journal
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1220 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

EXECUTION iT MANCHESTER,

... had a very inditierent reputation amongst the railway employes, it being stated that it has previously killed a number of persona, and now it has killed its driver. Wm. Brown, the driver, though every where spoken of as a ste.aely, an honest, and industrious ...

Published: Saturday 01 September 1866
Newspaper: Stroud Journal
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4046 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

A TIDAL FLOOD IN THE SEVERN TUNNEL

... continued burning for an hour, they saw Use water rise to the height of 11;ft. It .ached the feet of ten ,men who had climbed a scaffold at the hat break up from the shaft. One of them, a noted swimmer, named John Hodge, stripped, and was about to plunge in ...

Published: Saturday 20 October 1883
Newspaper: Stroud Journal
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 763 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

REGISTRATION OF VOTERS

... sentences, being an average of 217 executions in each year—rather a busy life. During the 25 years he only twice ascended the scaffold without a fatal result—once in 1815, when General Count Lavalotto was to have been executed for complicity in the return ...

THE STROUD JOURNAL, SA' EXECUTIONS AT NEWEIATE

... who was the same day sentsoced to death for killing his sister-in-law Jane by shooting her in Finsbu Park, were der Finsbury Park, Newgate Gaol on Monday. Both convicts walked with a firm step to the scaffold, and Herbert particularly exhicited great composure ...

Published: Saturday 18 December 1880
Newspaper: Stroud Journal
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 709 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

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 obliged 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: Stroud Journal
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1767 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

EPITOME OP NEWS. Faisal EMLBAJIM—Hie Excellency the Due de Is Bochefoucald de Bieaccia has returned to the ..

... Charles Pointer, aged 29, and John King, who were killed through an accident in the Commercial-read East. It appeared that on the previous Thursday afternoon a number of men were engaged on a scaffold erected in front of the Britannia Tavern, in the ...

Published: Saturday 25 April 1874
Newspaper: Stroud Journal
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1661 | Page: 6 | Tags: none