Account of one of the most horrid murders committed by a beggar man ever recorded : the father of the family was out shooting, and while absent, the beggar demanded of the woman the  money he knew was in the house; the woman went up a ladder to where it was lying, and pulled it after her, by which she escaped from his bloody hands; he then took the two children, cut off their noses and ears, and then murdered them; the cries of the woman drew the attention of an officer who was passing in a carriage, who sent his servant to know the cause of the cries; the beggar plunged a knife in his body, and he fell; the officer then advanced, and met the beggar, who escaped from him, after losing the fingers of his right hand with a sabre, and meeting with the father of the children, said an officer had murdered his family, and he had just escaped; the man flew home in distraction, believing the beggar's story, shot the captain, and on hearing the true account, fell down and died.
[Glasgow] : Printed by W. Carse, Glasgow,
[ca. 1820?]
'Taken from the Litereary Melange'.
Murder
Scotland Glasgow.