... months, the year ri Mr Mortimer, the English architect was engaged in building a new cathedral at Hamburgh, was killed falling from scaffold. One of his sitters in England had had a vivid dream of the accident, and of his death ; and another of his sisters ...

... Charlotte Pearcey. Meunier met his fate calmly, and was accompanied on the scaffold by two Roman Catholic priests, one of whom, Father Knight, read the funeral service. While upon the scaffold the condemned man asked the executioner to wait, saying— I want to ...

... TERRIBLE SCAFFOLD ACCIDENT IN LONDON. FIVE WORKMEN KILLED AND MANY INJURED. A terrible scaffold accident at a building in course of erection in Orchard Street, Westminster, London, occurred on Thursday, whereby at teat five men lost their lives, while ...

... EXECUTION OF ALICE HOLT AT CHESTER. Dreadful Scene on the Scaffold. On Monday the extreme sentence of the law was carried into effect on Alice Holt, at Chester gaol, for the murder of her mother by poison. The evidence at the trial before Mr. Justice ...

... the condemned man, who then walked firmly to the scaffold. The prison bell tolled up to the time of execution, and the black flag was hoisted when efGet had been given to the death sentence. The scaffold used was not of the ordinary kind, the rope being ...

... employed painting one of the domes, for which a most ingenious scaffolding was employed, on which a number of persons could work, and it had the great advantage of being moveable. On the scaffolding—the fall of which has led to the catastrophe to-day—the fixtures ...

... the fact of one of the wretched culprits f ing a woman—the first of her sex hung in the coln:. Murphy, the convict who killed Constible O'Boyle at Warranambool, by beating out his l'rains with a h 111.. mer while his back was turned, and then escape ...

... that the accident whs caused by one of the men having lifted a part of the scaffold, and put a lamp ULder it for the purpose of fitting a conductor to convey water under the scaffold from cut in the shaft above the ironstone. Immediately after the occurrence ...

... his firmness, and sent for magistrate, to whom be confessed that he murdered his wife, but denied killing the children. When he appeared on the scaffold, he was greeted with terrific yelling and shouting, but everything being previously arranged in less ...

... to him, and that, es the result, the bucket in the shaft was over- wound, striking and detaching a portion of the scaffolding, which killed three men, working underneath, instantaneously, and another died ehortly after being a lmitted to the Chesterfield ...

... City Glasgow Bank, now building in the nigh Street Dunbar, a part of the scaffolding, which is in the inside the building, way, and eight men, along with the stone, scaffolding, and joisting of the intermediate storeys, were precipitated to the bottom ...

... uphold deceitful and uncharitable proceedingn—Year. f•ithfally Pam !anon. New Eight. 31. t Angld, men hay. been killed and three Injured bg • scaffold •t Prague. Tim t.is of ► erring* la Ireland during the showed increa•e, but there wee • to value compared ...