The Sun.
London, England, 1864-02-25 00:00:00

Shocking Murder in Glasgow.

At a late hour on Tuesday night an atrocious murder
was perpetrated in Maitland-street, Cowcaddens, Glasgow.
The victim is a woman about 30 years of age, named Jessie
Gordon, and the person by whose hands the unfortunate
creature has been bereft of life is believed to be one John or
William Blair, a joiner by trade, residing at 511, Dobbie's-
loan.

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,theyyears as
sepa-
rated, but on Tuesday night, shortly before 11 o'clock, they
appeared together in the public •house of Mr. Alexander
Ferguson, in Maitland-street. They went into a box by
themselves, and, according to the testimony of a waitress
employed in the shop, they were supplied with two glasses
of whisky and a glass of ale. After they had been in the
place a short time a quarrel arose between them, and pre-
sently their voices were heard in loud altercation. In the
heat of the dispute the woman was seen by
some parties in
the shop to throw a bottle at her companion, and Blair was
subsequently heard to threaten that he would do for her.
Almost immediately afterwards Blair left the shop, and
proceeded down Maitland-street towards Dobbie's-loan.
The woman followed him out, and took the same
direction along the street. No one seems to have taken
any particular notice of them at this time ; but a
minute or two afterwards the attention of the persons
in Mr. Fergusan's shop, and of every one else within ear-
shot, was arrested by a loud cry of murder proceeding from
the quarter towards which they had gone. A girl, named
Catherine Lyon or Nelson, who happened to be in Fergu-
son's, at once ran down the street, in the direction of the
cries, and 'about 40 yards from the shop door she found the
woman Gordon standing on the pavement, with blood spout-
ing from a wound in the neck. By this time the unfortu-
nate woman was surrounded by a crowd of neople, to whom
she intimated that she had been stabbed by the man
in whose company she had been seen. Within a few
minutes after the alarm had been raised, Dr. Renfrew was
in attendance. Ho administered the usual restoratives re-
sorted to in such cases, but without success, for the patient
gradually sank, and expired about 25 minutes after biseraerd-
rival. When the body was examined, it
diBrtured
that, two wounds had been inflicted. One was ayu
wound on the left side of the neck, in the r4;7 of
carotid artery, The other wound was
iltooo-fi°,urths of an
character, on the tight sh;ailder, about -- re:of the wounds
inch in depth. Judging from the appearance
with a small
one would infer that they were '
pocket- knife. Blair has not l_icm,.).l)l

THE EXPENSES ATTEN PING E LATE COURT-
£B,22O ; fittings of the
MARTIAL ON COLONEL CRAWLEY, W hiell were
wildly estimated at £50,000 or £60,000, appear by a Parlia-
mentary return to be o follows :—Travelling expenses of
the witnesses to England and back,
Club-house, Alderehott, £5O ; the dead loss of the country
of the services of the witnesses is computed at L 3,000; alto-
gether under £12,000,

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAL—Mot-11111 g, 3h. 50m.—Afternoon, 4h. 4ro.
TO.XORROW.-M011111:11g, 4h. 15m.—Afternoon, 4h. 34m.