The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-13 00:00:00

VIOLENT- DEATH AT POOLEWE

On Tuesday, 24th Dec. last, a case of violent death
took place at Poolewe, accompanied by painful cir-
cumstances. It happened as follows :—A. respectable
young man, about thirty years of age, was following
his vocation as a tailor in the house of one Macgregor,
a merchant, in the second court of Poolewe, who also
keeps an unlicensed dram-shop. On the evening of
Saturday, the 24th Dec., a large quantity of spirits
was drank in Macgregor's house, by several persons,
of whom the deceased was one, sad the party re-
mained to a late hour. It seems undoubted, however,
that the tailor was quite fit for, and busily occupied
with, his work about eight or nine o'clock in the
evening of that day. Three or four hours thereafter,
an uncle of his was called in by Macgregor's mother,
and he then found his unfortunate nephew stretched
upon a bed, and in the agonies of death. He con.
tinued in that state till two P.M. of Tuesday follow-
ing, when he expired. When urged by his brother
to reveal the cause of his death, he replied that he
would do so if they removed him out of Macgregor's
house. Unfortunately this was not done, and the
case remains consequently to be determined by other
evidence. On the 26th he was interred, and
two days thereafter the proper authorities were ap-
plied to for an investigation. Accordingly Sheriff
Cameron, Mr.l Macalester, Fiscal, and Dr. Smith,
proceeded to Poolewe, and on Friday, the 3d current,
they got the body disinterred, and its state examined
in the usual manner. The result was a full conviction
that the deceased came to his death by violence, but
the difficulty remained of tracing the calamity to its
author or authors. This, we trust, will be succes-
fully brought about, from the ability and exemplary
attention of the legal gentlemen to whom the task
officially belongs. At the request of Dr. Mackenzie,
of Eileanach, the Sheriff addressed the spectators on
the occasion of re•interring the body, both in English
and Gaelic, with characteristic clearness and solemnity.
He directed their attention to the corpse of their
young kinsman, when being committed a second time
to its grave, as a warning of the most painful kind
against the thirst for ardent spirits, as not only sinful
in itself, but as the inducing cause of other and erro-
neous views, such as contempt of all authority and
law, whether divine or human, profanation of the
Sabbath, and the violent removal of life itself. The
authorities are now pursuing the investigation.—
Inverness Courier.

DARING ATTACK

AND A T

TEMPTED HIGEIWAY ROBBERY.

Mr. T. C. Wigg, grocer, of Lambeth-marsh, left
his shop on Saturday night, accompanied by his son
(twelve years of age) for his residence, 2, Lorimer-
terrace, having about him a considerable sum of
money. On reaching Manor-place, Walworth-road,
he fancied his steps were dogged by two suspicious-
looking men and anticipating an attack, kept on his
guard. At the point, however, where West-street is
intersected by Canterbury-place, the men appeared to
leave, but suddenly returned, and struck Mr. Wiggs
violently on the back of his head with some heavy
instrument. Mr. Wigg and his son called out " Mur-
der !" as loudly as they could, when the former again
received two or three violent blows also on the back
of his head, and some blows were also inflicted upon
the head of the child.
Police-constable James Key, 354 P, who was on
duty near the place, ran to the spot, and found Mr.
Wigg leaning against some palings and the blood
flowing profusely from wounds in his head. He,
however, contrived to tell the constable that the vil-
lains had fled along Canterbury-place, and accordingly
the policeman went in pursuit of one whom he could
perceive, but the latter was met by Henry Coppin,
978 (who had also been attracted by the cries) at the
corner of Manor-place, who inquired the cause of the
alarm, when the fellow replied " that it was only
some quarrel between a man and his wife." Coppin,
however, thought it better to insist that the latter
should return in his custody to see if he had any-
thing to do with the affair, when Key came up, and
both proceeded with the prisoner to Mr. Wigg's, who
at once identified him as one of his assailants, and he
was then conveyed to the police-station in Locke's-
fields, when he gave his name as Joseph Wood. The
other made his escape. Mr. Wigg and his son were
within twenty yards of their own door at the time.
The thieves had not succeeded in abstracting any of
-the property. Mr. Wigg was very seriously injured
by four large, deep wounds at the back of his head.
Near the scene of violence was discovered a short
riding-whip, formed of gutta percha, the head of
which was loaded with four ounces of metal.

THE CASE OF LIEUTENANT AlouAT, 50TH REGI-
mENT.—At the Insolvent Court, on Thursday, Lieutenant
Mouat again attended upon his petition under the Protec-
tion Act, for discharge. He was again opposed, and the
creditors consented to take Bs. in the pound, but Mr.
Mouat's friends having some time before offered to pay on
his behalf 53. in the pound, declined now to advance any
money, the insolvent having undergone all the sufferings
and inconvenience of a public examination. The Commis-
sioner, after making some observations upon accommodation
bill transactions, again adjourned the case, with the view of
cculiDg tg amicable AdjWitiZelat 9( the ClAi4l4'