MAIL ITEMS. THE WHITECHAPEL ROAD MURDER SENTENCE PASSED ON THE PRISONERS. London, Ist December.
_ne inai or tne brothers Waiuwright— Henry, for the murder of Harriett Lane, in Whitechapel Road, in 1874, and Thomas, as accessory after the fact— closed to-day. Both were found guilty. Henry was sentenced to death, and Thomas to seven years' imprisonment. The Treasury have undertaken the prosecution of an undertaker at Southampon, named Blundell, upon whose premises were receutly found the unburied bodies of fifteen children. ' ' Two men were killed and five others severely injured by an explosion of gas in the Vohster coalmine, Somersetshire. The mail train on the Irish Midland railway was run into on October 30th, at Castlebar station by a special train, and one passenger was killed and several others_severely injured.
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Evening Post, Volume XIII, Issue 6, 8 January 1876, Page 2
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130MAIL ITEMS. THE WHITECHAPEL ROAD MURDER SENTENCE PASSED ON THE PRISONERS. London, Ist December. Evening Post, Volume XIII, Issue 6, 8 January 1876, Page 2
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