The Sun.
London, England, 1851-10-25 00:00:00

HORRIBLE MURDER.

Pr TERHEAD, OCT. 20.—Yesterday morning we
were thrown into a state of great excitement by a re-
port that a dreadful murder had been perpetrated at li
Cruden, about seven miles from this place. On in-
quiry we found it to be unfortunately too true. The
following particulars we have been enabled to glean :
—The person who has thus come to his untimely end
was Mr. Matthew Flame, formerly a chief boatman
in the Coast-guard at this place, but who had retired
on a pension about 12 months ago, and at Midsummer
went to reside at Cruden, in a lone house on the
roadside, to which is attached some land and the post-
office, and which is the last stage for changing the
horses of the mail-coach which runs from Aberdeen.
The former tenants had a license for selling spirits,
&c., but, for misconduct, it was taken from them. It
appears that Mr. Flame had retired to rest, and left
his wife sitting up to finish some little things neces-
sary fir the Sabbath. She was alarmed by a violent
knocking at the door for admittance, and being un-
willing to admit any one at so late an hour, she put out
the candle. At this the person outside became so enraged
and caused so much noise, as to induce poor Flame to
get up, who, if he had not been prevented by his wife,
would have opened the door to endeavour to pacify the
furious intruder, who, fancying it was still a public-
house, was annoyed at being refused admittance.
However, Mr. Flame unfortunately went out by the
back part of the house with no other covering on his
head than his nightcap, and, on turning the corner of
the house to come to the front door, the murderer
raised his stick and struck him a heavy blow on the
head, which felled him to the ground. The poor wife
rushed out on hearing his cry. She saw him gasp
once, after which he ceased to breathe. Her cries
brought assistance from the nearest farmhouse, some
distance off. The stupified murderer remained by
the corpse, fancying he had only stunned his victim;
and not until a surgeon came, who desired those who
had assembled to take him prisoner, was he aware of
the awful position he stood in. After some resistance
he was secured, and is now in gaol here, awaiting ex-
amination. The murderer is from the
titHighlands,lghere
and had been employed in the herring fishing
two or three seasons, as well as at other work, and
was on his way here again, with the view of obtain-
ing a situation in a Greenland ship; but he had
been drinking, and was in a state of intoxication
when he committed the rash and fatal deed.—Edin-
burgh Witness.

MURDER IN TIPPERARY.
The Irish papers of Wednesday morning contain
an account of a barbarous murder which was perpe-
trated on Monday evening in the south riding of
Tipperary, the particulars of which are as follow :
" Yesterday evening (Monday) a most atrocious
murder took place at Ballytarsna, about four
miles from Littleton and six 'from Cashel,
and after such an interval of quiet as the
country has enjoyed it is painful to find that
Tipperary should be disgraced by such foul crimes—
crimes which have tended so much to prevent the influx
of capital, and injured the position of
,the the peasantry by
preventing employment. It appears that the Rev. Mr.
Drapes, who has some clerical preferment, lately