The Express.
London, England, 1862-08-26 00:00:00

CHARGE OP MURDER AGAINST A WIPE.

On Saturday morning a labouring man, named
William Taylor, died at Dumbarton, from alleged inhuman
treatment received at the bands of his wife, Catherine
MGee, or Kelly, or Taylor, on Sunday forenoon. The de-
ceased has for a oonsiderable number of occupied a
cottage consisting of a kitchen, morn, and bed closet, in •
sequestered spot on the Mid-dam road in the suburbs of the
town. His wife and a daughter aged eleven years, with •
labouring man, tie wife, and two sous, the latter two aged
respectively fourteen and nine years, comprised the inmates
of the house. Taylor appears to have been about 52 years
of age, and has been for borne time in indifferent
health, while the wife is a stout robust woman, forty-five
years of age. On Saturday evening the adult inmates bad
partaken pretty freely of liquor, and at six o'clock on Sun-
day morning an altercation took place between the de-
ceased and his wife, jealousy on the part of the former being
the cause of quarrel. The husband then left the house, and
proceeded to &friend's house in the town, where he partook
of two glasses of whisky. He returned home about ten
o'clock, and found his wife, who had also in the
interval been drinking, and the youngest boy
before referred to in the house, the other in.
mates being loitering in the neighbourhood. From the
deceased's declaration which was taken on Wednesday
afternoon by Sheriff Steele and {the Procurator-Fiscal, cor-
roborated by the little boy and his father, wholatterly came
into the house, it appears that, without any provocation at
that time on the part of the deceased, his wife gave him a
violist push on the beast which threw him on the floor,
following up her attack by repeated kicks on the most vital
parte of his body, and leaped and trampled upon his breast
fora considerable time. She ultimately from sheer exhaus-
tion stopped in her murderous attack, and the lodger
having arrived, he carried the deceased to bed, from which
be
Wednesday morning, when Dr. Richard visited the dying
man, and at once communicated with the police, when Ser-
jeant Robert Gordon, after making some inquiries, took the
wife into custody. She denied, we understand, that she had
put a band upon the deceased, but on examination before
the sheriff, she alleged that a quarrel had taken place be-
tween them, that they bad got into grips, and both fell on
the floor. the deceased underneath. A post-mortem exami-
nation of the body will be made immediately. The accused
is a native of Glasgow, has been twice married, and has fre-
quently come under the notice of the police. On her hus-
band's death being communicated to her in prison on
Saturday she was much affected.—Scotsman.

CLEVER APPREHENSION OF A FRAUDULENT
BANKRUPT.

About the close of last year the announcement
was made in the customary way that on the 21st of Novem-
ber the estates of Thomas Henderson, wholesale woollen
cloth and tweed warehonaeman, carrying on business
at 13, Johr-strest, Glasgow, bad been sequestrated. The
usual investigation consequent upon all such unpleasant
notifications, a bankruptcy examination before the
sheriff, was gone into, but before its conclusion
the affairs of the bankrupt were found, mildly
speaking, to be in a very confused state ; and
to avoid any ulterior proceedings of • troublesome
nature, Mr. Henderson hurried off to Edinburgh and took
refuge in the Sanctuary there. Early in the following
year, about the 6th or 7th January, 1862, circumstances
came to light which resulted in the sheriff granting a
warrant for the apprehension of the missing bankrupt, who
was charged with concealing a portion of his effects with
intent to defraud his creditors. The " circumstances" re-
ferred to consisted in the police discovering in a house at
119, St. James's.road, • quantity of household furniture,
picture", and cloths, representing • sum amouutiog in the
aggregate to several buudreds of pounds, also, in • house in
St. Vincent-street, a chest with silver plate sod a box con-
taining various cloths ; and further, in a house at Helens-
burgh, a quantity of furniture, pictures, &c —all alleged to
have belonged to the bankrupt, and by him con-
cealed with a fraudulent intention. On being sought
in the Sanctuary it was found that he bad again
absconded, and although his portrait bad been ob-
tained, and all mean were taken for his apprehension,
he managed to elude his pursuers until Saturday last.
On that day, however, Mr. Peter Brown, detective, while
walking along India-40ot, Edinburgh, observed a man also
proceeding at a leisurely pace io company with two young
girls ; sod with all the acuteness characteristic of those who
follow his peculiar calling, the detective observed in this
man features similar in expression to those of the missing
bankrupt, nor was be mistaken. Not being perfectly sore in
the matterof identity, however, and feeling that it was rather
a delicate, not to say dangerous proceeding to erred a man
upon mere surmise, he resolved to gain by stratagem, if pos.
sible, what seemed to be denied him by other means. In
pursuance of this resolve, he stepped up to the sus-
pected one and awaited him with brisk familiarity as
" Mr. Hendereste," on which the bankrupt turned round
in rather a surprised meaner, and endeavoured to con-
vince Mr. Brown that there must be some mistake, that he
was not " lie. Henderson," &c. The detective, however,
assured him that there was no mistake, and put all further
fencing out of the question by producing the tell-tale por-
trait. Finding that it was useless to prevaricate further,
the bankrupt vietly resigned himself into the custody of
Mr. Brown, and was brought to Glasgow with all proper
despatch. Since leaving this city be had, with a view to
prevent his ready ideotillcation, allowed his whiskers, of
which be was formerly rather neat and /paring, to grow
without stint, and had added to these the fashionable attrac-
tion of a moustache. After his apprehension it was ascer-
tained that he had been lodging in a house in India-street,
but be bad only been there for • few days, and his history
since leaving Glasgow is yet a blank.—liorth British Mail.

Tae Cotivier WALBEZ.-011 Friday the governor
of the county gaol received a letter from the Lords Jmticea,
directing him to convey to the convict their final determi-
nation that, on considering his case most fully and con-
aiderately, they could not find any single point in it which
would warrant them in altering the sentence pronounced
upon him, acid that therefore the law should take its
course. The governor read this letter to the unhappy man
in the presence of the Roman catholic chaplain of the
prison. The sad intelligence was received by Walahe with a
becoming spirit of firmness; and resignation. He is deeply
impressed with his awful position, and will, be says, meet
his wretched doom with becoming firmness and respect for
public feeling. The Re.. M. Fitzgerald, P.P., chaplain of
the prison. is most atteotive to him, and the Sisters of Merry,
whose good offices he receives with evident earnestness, and
is much consoled by the spiritual consolations afforded by
those good ladies.—Lineritt Chronicle.

ANOTHER CRINOLJNE ACCIDENT.—About noon
yesterday, a lady named Brandon was going mom the
Easton-road, for the purpose of entering an Exhibition om-
nibus, when at the moment abe had reached the vehicle, a
mail cart from the railway station, turning the corner of
Seymour-street. passed so closely behind her that her dress
was naught by the wheel, and she was dragged a eposider-
able distance before she could be aruimited. Oa receiving
medical assistance it was ascertained that she bad sustained
a emaponed fracture of the leg and a dislocation of the
wrist. She was conveyed to her home in Bedford-Owe,
Rumellaquars.
ROYAL Fain HOSPITAL, URA T'B
-INN-ROAD. —The
number of patients relieved at ibis hospita duriag the week
ending August 23, was 2,948 of which 965 were raw ease I