The Express.
London, England, 1861-01-01 00:00:00

MURDER IN GLASGOW.

About oue o'clock ou Sunday moruitig a fight
seems to have been going on on the west aide of High-street,
Glasgow, • short dietanee from the Cron, between two
men one Lamed Wm. Clark, alias Nell Coyle, the name
of the other being unknown. Coyle was knocked Ito the
ground once or twice, and a young man named John Gall,
who does not appear, from anything we have been able to
learn, to have been in company with either the one party or
the other, but merely one of the crowd, stepped out to take
Coyle's part, saying it was a shame that ho should be so used,
and that lie walnut getting fair play. He then turned to
Coyle, and putting his hand on his shoulder and clapping
him, advised him to go home. Coyle, without any previous
notice, turne,l abruptly round, and, lifting his hand, was
men by the bystanders to strike Gall with considerable force
about the belly. Gall :nireediately doubled up, and cried
out, "I am gabbed ; for God's sake go for a doctor !" He
then, with his hand on the wound, mu down the street,
through the arch under the Cross steeple, end catching •
kap-poet at the corner of the street, swung round
it once, and then fell fiat on his face. The
aid of Drs. Chalmers and Finlayson was promptly
procured, and these gentlemen immediately ordered
the wounded man to be removed to the Royal
Infirmary, where he expired about four o'ckok on
Sunday morning. It was found that deceased had re-
ceived a blow with some sharp instrument in the groin,
which had severed the femoral artery and resulted in his
bleeding to death. Immediately after dealing the fatal
blow Coyle made off down Saltmarket, followed by • number
of the crowd. He ran up close No. 18 of that street, where
his further program was °Winded by an iron gate, which
wee locked, and he was then apprehended by two constables.
The close was afterwards searched, and a clasped knife,
much stained with blood, was found within • yard or
two of the spot where Coyle was arreeted. He is a
returned convict, and has only been at liberty some three
mouthe, after having undergone seven years' penal servi-
tude. His character and nature may he guessed when we
state, that while he was undergoing that sentence he wee
the terror of all in any way. brought into contact with him,
both wardens and fellow-prisoners. Since his apprehension
Coyle has maintained • dogged silence, not dropping one
word either as to his guilt or innocence.
The deceased, who was !et years of age, was an engine-
fitter to trade, and was a quiet, sober, inoffeneiye youth,
and not given to interfering in street brawl,. He re-
sided in Clvde.street, deilerston, with a widowed mother,
of whom he was almat the sole support.—North, British
Mail.

Tat EXTRAORDINARY ATTEMPT AT BIURDER IN
DEBIT:I.—On Saturday evoniog the police bailed the fol-
lowing description of Joseph Dwyer, who Mande charged
with having, between the home of six and seven o'clock oa
the evening of the 27th Inst., discharged a leaded pistol at
ODA William Mulholland with intent to kill and rob him,
and inflicted on him a wound, in • stable in Blackwell-
parade, in the city of Dublin, as reported in our columns
yesterday :—" He is nineteen years of age ; five feet
eight inches high ; slight make ; thin polo carbuncled
fare ; dark brown hair • full brown or blue eyes ; down-
cast kink ; was dressed' in dark clothes ; hat somewhat
wore, end rather large for him, which gives him nn awk.
ward apparent*. He wean a watch and chain. He
is well educated, and is a native of North Kingetreet,
in this city. One of his fingers must be severely cut,
it keying been bitten by Mulludlauil iu a struggle which en-
ured subsequent to the discharge of a pigtail." A reward of
501„ was offered for the apprehension of the prisoner, which
took place on Sunday after-n*ou, iu a house in Church-
street, by Superintendent Gernon, of the I) divisioo. He
was at once taken to the police-station at Bridewell-lane,
where he wee identified shortly afterwards by Mulholland
as the paver. who attempted to shoot him. His fingers
showed tlio marks of the bite inflicted by hie intended Tur-
tles. He will be brought up to Capel-street Police-office
to-day. Credit must be given to the police fur the
i sigibuice
with which they prosecuted the mplace arch. The n which
the prisoner wee found was suited for the purposes uf con.
calmeut. When arrested he was greatly affected, and his
meaner since his arrest is that of a person who feels the
horror of the position in which be is placed.
Toss MURDER ST DROWNLVO IN THE RIVER
CLYDE—To this osse, on iiiettodar, at the Clieurow Circuit
Court. John M'Fadyen was forted guilty by the jury of the
murder of the child Alexander Shields. His counsel craved
a verdict of Malady. The jury accompauied their verdict
with a strong recommendation to mercy. The prisoner was 111
conibmned to death at Olanow on 111th January neat, but
the general expectation seems to be that the sentence will
be remitted on the ground of imbecility.
FATAL GITN ACCIDENT. —OR utrsday last, Mr.
Alex:loam Bone, son of Mr. Bone, farmer, Blackburn, near
Lauder, met his death by the accidental discharge of his
gun while shooting on his father's farm. He had left the
house only a few minutes. and when about 200 yards from it
he stumbled end dropped the gun, and made a snag h at it
to save it from falling, when it went off and shattered hie
right arm and forearm in at dreadful manner. He reached
his own holm, and medical masteries wee procured from
Lauder, but before it arrived he had sunk from the severe
' hemorrhage. He has left a widow and very young family
to deplore his lam
A traveller just returned from Syria informs
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the !Oiliest repute, and the happiest means of raining the favour
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