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  2. ATTEMPT TO SAW A MAN'S HEAD OFF.

    On Saturday night, about nine o'clock, a most extraordinary but cruel assault was committed at Peasley Cross, a suburb of St. Helens, on a young man named Samuel Wright. It appears that ...

    Article : 353 words
  3. VERY STRANGE, IF TRUE.

    Atchison, May7, 1875.—To the Editor of the ST. JOSEPH GAZETTE.—Perhaps it would be interesting to your readers to know the true story of the mysterious discovery which has recently thrown ...

    Article : 679 words
  4. THE SEA-SERPENT AGAIN.

    A sea-serpent story that gets a little ahead of the ordinary run of such yarns comes from Portland. Captain Oliver, of the Path schooner Winslow Morse, relates that Thursday midnight, when off ...

    Article : 158 words
  5. A CHILD'S BRAINS BEAT OUT IN A BELFRY.

    Boston, May 23rd.—About 4 o'clock this afternoon people passing the Baptist Church, corner of Warren Avenue and West Canton street, were startled by loud and piercing screams, which ...

    Article : 263 words
  6. COCK FIGHTING AT LIVERPOOL AND SUTTON COLDFIELD.

    A correspondent of the BIRMINGHAM MORNING NEWS describes two cock fights at which he was present last week. He thus describes the first battle between the cocks at Aintree, near ...

    Article : 595 words
  7. The Alleged Case of Kidnapping by a Catholic Priest.

    OWING to a notice of question in the Assembly on the 9th instant by Mr. G. Smith, public attention has been directed to an extraordinary case of alleged kidnapping of two children by a Roman ...

    Article : 1,910 words
  8. TRIPLE EXECUTION IN INDIA.

    On Tuesday morning, says the BOMBAY GAZETTE of the 5th April, three Hindoos who had been sentenced by the Session Court at Tanna, were executed. Their names were Rama, son of Subhana, ...

    Article : 492 words
  9. EXECUTION AT BRISTOL.

    On April 26, at eight o'clock, William Hole, aged fifty-six, was hanged in Bristol gaol for having, in August last, murdered his wife. The convict began life as a bargeman, but, being a teetotaler ...

    Article : 318 words
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