The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-12-31 00:00:00

GLASGOW WINTER CIRCUIT.

MunnEg.—Alexander Anderson was charged with the
crime of murder, in having on the evening of the 6th of
October last, in the house occupied by him at Burnbank,
Great Eastern-road, Glasgow, wickedly attacked and as-
saulted Mary Kerr, or Anderson, his wife, and kicked, or,
with some instrument, struck her on the belly, and inflicted
a severe wound to' the effusion of her blood, by which she
was mortally injured, and immediately thereafter died.
The prisoner pleaded guilty to culpable homicide, which
plea was accepted by the crown.
A. S. LoGeN, Esq., then, as counsel for the prisoner,
called evidence as to his previous good character. He also
detailed shortly the circumstances of the whole case, stating
that the prisoner and his wife had long lived together on
the best of terms ; that an imprudence on the part of the
prisoner a few years ago had led to some domestic infelicity,
which induced the quarrel on the night libelled, and which
led to his accidentally, in a momentary fit of passion, inflict-
ing the injury which had resulted in her death. She had
been the mother of seven surviving children, and theprisoner
had been warmly attached to his wife, and most bitterly
lamented the result of the fatal quarrel. Hitherto he had
been a good, unimpeachable husband, and he craved the
leniency of the court in all the circumstances.
The prisoner was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment.
THE LATE ROBBERY OF JEWELLERY.—George Jackson
was then placed at the bar, charged with the crime of
theft by means of housebreaking, in so far as, on the
night of Saturday, the Ist, or morning of Sunday, the
2nd of October last, he, with one or more accomplices,
did wickedly and feloniously break in the shop or pre-
mises situated in Buchanan-street, Glasgow, occupied by
Mr. David Crighton Rait, goldsmith and jeweller, and this
after having first wickedly and feloniously obtained access
to the warehouse, situate immediately above the aforesaid
shop, occupied by Messrs. Campbell and Company, ware-
housemen, by opening, with a falsa key, a gate at the foot
of a stair leading up to the said warehouse from a close
leading from Buchanan-street to Princes-square, and by
also opening, with a false key, another door affording en-
trance from said stair into said warehouse : and having thus
obtained access to the interior of the said vfarehonse, then
and there forced up or removed, by a crowbar, a hearth.
stone near a fire-place, within the said warehouse ; and also,
by means of a brace and bit and saw, cut a hole or opening
through the floor of the said warehouse, and through the
roof or ceiling of the aforesaid shop of Mr. Rait, and
did thereafter descend into the said shop through the hole
or opening by means of a rope ladder, and thus having ob-
tained access to the said shop, did wickedlyl and feloniously
steal, and theftuously take away a large quantity of jewel-
lery [enumerated, and forming. 48 items in the indictment :
and estimated in value at about £3000,] the property of
the said Mr. David Crighton Rait.
The prisoner, who is an extremely good-looking young
man, was fashionably attired, and took his seat at the bar
with a cool and collected air. Upon being asked to plead
to his indictment, he replied, in an English accent, and
with a respectful bow to the bench, " not guilty."
The conclusion of the trial is not given.

EXTENSION OF TffE SOUTH WALES RAILWAY
FROM CAR3LARTHEN TO HAVERFORDWEST.
HAVERFORDWEST, THURSDAY, DEc. 29.—The inaugura-
tion of this important event was celebrated by a public
breakfast, given by Mr. Walters, the mayor of the borough,
to the directors of the South Wales, Great Western, and
Vale of Neath Railway. Companies ; the directors of the
Eastern Steam Navagation Company ; the corporations of
Haverfordwest, Swansea, Carmarthen, Cardigan, Pembroke,
and Tenby ; the members for the town and county, and a
large number of the gentry and tradesmen of the surround-
ing district. The festival WIS considered a general holiday,
and various portions of the town were gaily decorated with
banners and devices appropriate to the occasion.
This new portion of the South Wales line, running west-
ward from Carmarthen to Milford Haven, is 31 miles in
length, and reaches to within 7 or 8 miles of that spacious
harbour, and it is confidently anticipated that before the
close of another year that important link will be supplied,
and then the metropolis will be placed in direct communica-
tion with a harhour which, from the nature and extent of
its accommodation, presents almost unequalled facilities for
the establishment of a packet station, from which steamers
may take.their departure at all times for every quarter of
the globe.

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