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

MURDER I.LV GLASGOW.

About one o'clock on Sunday morning a fight
seems to have been going- on on the west side of
High-street, Glasgow, a short distance from the
Cross, between two men, one named Wm. Clark,
alias Neil Coyle, the nano e of the other being un-
known. Coyle was knoe ked to the ground once or
twice, and a young man r lamed John Gall, who does
not appear, from anything we have been able to
learn, to have been. in cor apany with either the one
party or the other, but :merely one of the crowd,
stepped out to take Coy le's part, saying it was a
shame that he shel aid be so used, and that he was
not getting► fair pl. ay. He then turned to Coyle,
and putting his ha nd on his shoulder and clapping
him advised him tc )go home. Coyle, without any
previous notice, tui •ned abruptly round, and, lifting
his hand, was seen by the bystanders to strike Gall
with considerable force about the belly. Gall im-
mediately doublect up, and cried out, "I am stabbed;
for God's sake go I )r a doctor !" He then, with his
hand on the wouuc 1, ran down the street, through
the arch under tb., e Cross steeple, and catching a
lamp-post at the co rner of the street, swung round
it once, and thou i ;fell flat on his face. The
aid of Drs. ChaltutArs and Finlayuon was promptly
procured, and these gentlemen immediately ordered
the wounded man to ) be removed to the Royal In-
firmary, where he expired about four o'clock on
Sunday morning. It was found that deceased had
received a blow with a sharp instrument in the
groin, which had severed the femoral artery, and
resulted in his bleedling to death. Immediately after
dealing the fatal blow Coyle made off down Salt-
market, followed by a number of the crowd. He
ran up close No. 18 ,o f that street, where his further
progress was obstructed by an iron gate, which was
locked, and he was then. apprehended by two eon-
stables. The close was afterwards searched, and a
clasped knife, much stained with blood, was found
within a yard or two of the spot where Coyle was
arrested. He is a returned convict, and has only
been at liberty some three months after having un-
dergone seven years' penal servitude. His charac-
ter and nature may be guessed when we state, that
while he was undergoing that sentence he was the
terror of all in any way brought into contact with
him, both wardens and fellow prisoners. Since his
apprehension Coyle has maintained a dogged
silence, not dropping one word either as to his
guilt or innocence.
The deceased, who was 23 years of age, was an
engine-fitter to trade, and was a quite, sober, inof-
fensive youth, and not given to interfering in street
brawls. He resided in Clyde-street, Anderston,
with a widowed mother, of whom he was almost
the sole support.—. North British Mail.

THE EXTRA ORDINARY Al TEMPT AT
MURDER 1N DUBLIN.

The Freenzan's Journal of Saturday contains the
following additional details. of this extraordinary
affair :

"In connection with local affairs in Dublin, since
the murder of the Italian boy and the trial of
Spollen for the assassination of Mr. Little, nothing
has excited such an amount of general and painful
interest as the attempt which was made on Thurs-
day evening to deprive an unoffen ding man of his
life, for the purpose of gaining possession of some
£8 or £9 worth of wearing apparel. This was a
thing so foreign to Irish crime, which is generally
characterised by the ' wild justice of revenge,' that
even the slowest of comprehensions could perceive
that a foreign agency was at work when murder
was sought to be carried on with profit, and re-
duced to the system of a mercantile speculation.
AU Dublin was alive yesterday to the horrors con-
tained in the narrative, which was given in the
Freeman's Journal, of the most diabolical attempt
ever placed on record in this country of a conspi-
-1 racy to make an ordinary transaction of mercan-
tile business the means by which murder and rob-
bery could be perpetrated. Men and women were
to be seen in groups in the streets discussing this
occurrence, happily novel in this country. Per-
; sonages in high places wondered at the terrible
daring of the scheme, which only failed in its
perfect success by the fact of the associates of a
jTaver,jle assassin failing to be present to assist him
in the atrocious deed. It has been already stated
that if the pf.uter (Mulholland) had arrived at the
time when he, was expected, his quietus would
have been made, .and his body would have been
' paved into the pit prepared for it.' Fortunately
for himself he lingerod on his way, and thus escaped
the doom of being ' too carc.y.'
" For some time past a ,-,umber of the English
swell mob have attracted the attention of the detec-
tive police. These parties have be°,eie closely watched,
but notwithstanding the vigilance of the police, a
number of portmanteaus, travelling bags, &c., be-
longing to persons passing to and from Digland,
have been stolen. Railway companies attri;rated
to foreign imported ' genius' the loss of a great
deal of valuable property, which loss should just i3'
be attributed to a looseness in the transit manage-
ment of luggage traffic. During some months past
the losses sustained in this way were so many and
so great that the police were induced to exert all
their energies to discover the plunderers, but were
quite at fault in trying to account for the number of
railway robberies which were reported to have oc-
curred. Ordinary up and down trains, mail trains,
and express trains, were closely watched with lynx
eyes ; but it was forgotten that the dexterous thief
could dress himself as like a gentleman as possible,
swagger on a platform, or appear hurried and ex-
cited on the street-way as if urged on by honest
business, at the same time his object being to seize
upon and carry off the luggage and goods of unwary
travellers. At length a number of ' fast' looking
individuals, dressed extravagantly in the prevailing
mode, and wearing a quantity of showy trinkets,
excited the suspicion of the ' detectives,' and, as
has appeared from the police reports, several of
them have been arrested, and a large quantity of
valuable property traced to their possession. A
young man, the son of a respectable trader in the
city of Dublin (the name it is advisable to suppress
for the present), was remarked to be frequently in
the company of those parties. But the parents of
this young man being known to be so respectable
and above all reproach, he was not suspected of
being in collusion with the dubious persons. In-
quiries were instituted into his character and ante-
cedents, and it transpired that he had received a
liberal, even a collegiate education, and had been
destined for a profession. This fact, in addition to
other circumstances, disarmed all suspicion. This
was the young man who hired the stable off Black-
hall-parade—who dug the. grave, and at-
tempted to murder Mulholland. This ' young
man was of studious habits, and was
wont to pore over the romances of Dumas and
Sue in secret, even on the roof of the house
where he dwelt, in order to escape detection. Doubt-
less, imbued with the prurient ideas of this school
of vicious romance, he received the notion of esta-
blishing a novel system of murder and robbery,
perhaps incited by his cosmopolitan acquaintances.
The stable was hired by this young man through '
the medium of a ' go-between in the person of a
boy who has been arrested, and is now in police
custody. The honest, industrious father of this
youth repudiated him, but his mother, influenced
by kindly and maternal feelings, sought to reclaim
him, and one of the things which led to the dis-
covery of his perpetration of the diabolical attempt
to deprive a fellow-creature of life was a kind and
affectionate letter, written by his afflicted mother,
in which prayers for his conversion were more
apparent than blame for his previous misconduct.
The poor mother besought this misguided young
man to abandon his evil courses. She told him that
• father's house was open to him if he entered in
his _ - cnirit. The poor woman, wall knowing
a proper - 1 writing would be recognised by her
that her liana.. not affix, her signature to the
unhappy son, did ._ "ed in the morocco-leather
letter, which was discove._ '.o found the gun-
pocket-book, wherein were a,... -,1 for the de-
powder and percussion caps intenn,... I .e. shown
struction of the victim,l On this letter be lib _ ,;t
to the afflicted woman she admitted at once thtti•
was written by her hand, and had been addressed
by her to her unworthy Two pawn.-offc.e
in the stable, which, in
son.
duplicates were also found l
testimony, p aced beyond
conjunction with other
who
doubt the identity of the assassin, ,it is stated,
his life in America and
kis spent no 471411 part of

in England. On the alarm being given on Thurs-
day night of the attempted murder, Mr. Superin-
tendent Ryan, of the G division, proceeded without
a moment's delay to organise a series of cordons
of police around every passage or outlet through
which the culprit could escape from the city.
Men were placed at every railway station and at
every steamer about to start, either from the
No .7th-wall or from Kingstown, during the entire
of yesterday, but it is feared, from the fol-
lowing circumstance, that the assassin has gained
an Alsatia' amongst his English confederates.
Shortly before the mail-boat started from the pier
at Kingstown, on Thursday evening, the coal-
trimmer, who had been engaged in coaling the
steamer about to start, saw a young man rushing
down near the St. George Yacht Club-house, in the
direction of the pier. He was deadly pale, and in
a state of great excitement. He inquired if a
steamer was about to start for England. He was
answered in the affirmative, and, from the descrip-
tion given of him by the parties who saw him, there
was little doubt that he was the person who had
fled from Dublin after having failed in his projected
attempt a murder and robbery. The electric wires
have been Actively at work in the service of the
police, and, ,doubtless, during the course of this day
or to-morrow, the inventor of one of the most terrible
and villanous schemes for the perpetration of a
series of murders and robberies in the centre of a
populous city, w)111 be in the hands of justice to
answer for his miscleeds."