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London, England, 1863-09-23 00:00:00

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23.

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Temperance have ever been in possession of a
case which set forth the countless and deadly
evils of drunkenness more eloquently than that
vhio4 the columns of the Scotch journals have
"resulted in a report of the trial of Witattm
Straw Gsairr before the Perth Circuit Court,
for the murder of his wife. GILLN'T was a
merchant's clerk at Dundee, at a salary of
1001. a year. He was thirty-five years of age,
and with his wife and four young children had for
several years occupied a set of rooms in a house in
Small's Wynd, divided, according to the Scottish
system, into " lands," and accommodating several ,
families. The Gsairrs appear to have lived on
very friendly terms with their neighbours, who
were the principal witnesses on the trial.
MARION Guts; the wife of the prisoner, was last
seen alive on Saturday, the 20th of June lest. At
two o'clock in the afternoon the eldest daughter, a
girl air years of age, in a state of nervous dis-
tress, brought her little brother into Mrs. SCOTT'S
room. This was not an uncommon occurrence.

The poor forlorn children often fled in this way from
the spectacle of their mother's degradation. Mrs.
Soon knew at once what their presence signified,
and going into the next apartment found Mrs.
Gasrr much intoxicated. Between five and six
o'clock the effects of the drink had so fargone off that
Mrs. GILLNT, although muddled, was trying to do
her household work, having been brought up in
tidy and industrious habits. In this state Mrs.
Scant saw her for the last time, conversed with
her, and rendered her some assistance in her house-
hold matters. After this Mrs. GRANT sent the
little girl out for more drink. About eight o'clock
Gamer returned from businesa, and meeting his
little boy, three years old, took him into his arms,
and entered the house, laughing and playing with
the child. The evidence as to his condition at this
time is contradictory. Two of the witnesses said
that he was drunk, but their reasons for thinking so
did not satisfy the court. He was not a man ad-
dicted to excess. In his " declaration," however,
he admitted that be " had been drinking," but
" knew what he was about." Soon after GRANT
bad gone within doors, the eldest children having
gone out to play, the neighbours heard a noise in his
rooms. They were accustomed to hear Mrs. Gen NT
tumbling on the floor and overturning the chairs,
but this noise was " out of the common." Mrs.
HOVKLL, whose room was immediately under that
of the GRAND; called Mn. Scorn to hear the noise
with her,and they heard something like sharp strokes
as if made with a cane on a table, and then
a bumping noise on the floor. Then all was stilL
About ten o'clock the father's voice was heard
callipg his eldest daughter. Mrs. Sever took her
to him, when he spoke kindly to the child, ;and told
her to bid Mrs. Scorr good night. His manner at
this time was perfectly calm and collected. The
children were in the habit of sleeping in a bad
concealed in a recess of the parlour, the parents
occupying the bedroom. It appears from the evi-
dence of the eldest boy, eight years of age, that
when he came in from play, about ten, his sister
MARION and his little brother were already in
this bed, and their mother was lying on her back
on the parlour floor. The father, who was walking
about the kitchen when his son returned, soon
took off his clothes and lay down on the children's
bed. This, the eldest child said, be always diii
when the mother was drunk. About four
o'clock on the Sunday morning one of the