Refine Search

Countries

Place

Daventry, Northamptonshire, England

Access Type

14

Type

13
1

Public Tags

No tags available

FEARFUL ACCIDENTS IN AMERICA

... in its results., While 20 men were engaged on a scaffolding, erecting a county-court house at Rockford, Illinois, a }u-niun of the building gave way, and the scaffolding ell with a heavy cr::}: killing 12 men and injuring several others, ...

Hanging tragedy

... Malcolm Fox, aged 19, from Rugby, had been sleeping in Crick pavilion to avoid taking sides. He was discovered suspended from scaffolding with a rope around his neck at Fallowfields, Bury Dyke, by workman Keith Thompson on September 15. The pathologist’s report ...

FALSE FRONT

... built to the false front which had been completed. About 2.30 on Thursday he was working on the back side of the wall. Scaffolding was on the road side. “It was avery windy day and a gust of wind nearly blew ug over,” said Mr. Smith. *“1 heard someone ...

A HORRIBLE PIE

... men were tried for share in the business, and eight were hanged. It is said that, on the scaffold, one of them, addressing the Sheriff, said, “ You are going to kill us now, but you will not live much longer yourself.” Very soon after the engineer of the ...

EXECUTIONS

... woman and Clews had lived together, but becoming jealous ke lay in wait for her with a hatchet and killed her. The eulprit walked firmly to the scaffold, and died apparently instantancously, Berry was the cxecutioner. ...

DAMAGES FOR A HUSBANDS LOSS,

... buildings in course of erection by the defeadant, & builder, in Chesham-gardens, Chelsea, last September, fell from a scaffold and was killed. It was :’quthun—pwuonofmmfloldbg.w a ger, was improperly fastened, or not fastened at all, to another piece of wood ...

FLASHBACK to years gone by Tales from the past

... A man named Morris Bone, alias Professor Morris, was tried on Tuesday before Justice Lush, at Hereford, for feloniously killing Arthur Cooper, a yound man from Hitchin, by selling him pills containing such a quantity of arsenic that after taking a few ...

A DOCTOR AND HIS BATTERY

... men with the drum of oil fell into the water. Taylor was killed outright, while McLachlan lies in the Infirmary badly bni.otr. A short distance off Peter Lynch, a earpenter, was erecting a scaffold at the side of the steamer Carthagenian when a gust of ...

WEST HADDON

... —Thomas &Wd Lower Weedon, in the -abyo!!r.nohflaod eedon, said the deceased vul.wblr. hmm;‘:&,*- noon he was taking s scaffolding wmwmuwm horm -.“%fln“b horses. DL e po witness asked him if he lead the hor the hill outside the The first horse was unhooked ...

EPITOME OF NEWS;

... Quartier Bellemai at Marscilles, and inhabited by Italians, suddenly eollapsed the other night. Eeven of the inmates were killed and uine injured, two of them seriously, Suflicient reinforcements to permit of active operations being undertaken have now ...

EPITOME OF NEWS

... and a scaffold had been erected, upon which s man named Mattbew Hodgkinson was standing. He missed his !oov.ing. and was dashed to the bottom, dragging with him iu his descent .'T and chain to which it was attached. He was fih ully injured, and killed instantly ...

EPITOME OF NEWS

... September 16, 1635 “An eloping girl in France, menaced by her father's pistol, dropped from a window she had chosen for an exit :d killed a washerwoman who was passing below. The ast the survivors can do is to erect & handsome monument with the touching words ...