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BRUTAL MURDER.
(From the Dumfries Courier.)
We have the painful duty of recording an occur-
rence in the usual tranquil county of Dumfries, in-
volving the commission of two capital offences, under
circumstances of peculiar and painful atrocity, by
which a reqectable female has been suddenly and
awfully deprived of life. About seven o'clock of
the evening of Wednesday, the 27th ult., three
persons left Dumfries, two of them, at least, with
the intention of proceeding home to the village of
Kirkland of Tinwald ; John Hamilton and his
wife, accompanied by William Laurie, a shoemaker.
Hamilton is a ploughman. They had one child, a
daughter, about fifteen years of age. Before leaving
Dumfries the party had been together in a public-
house, and Hamilton had become much intoxi-
cated. About ten o'clock the same night Hamil-
ton found his way home, and went to bed
alone. Being questioned as to his wife, he said she
was with some people, and would be in directly.
About two o'clock next morning several persons, in
returning from Dumfries with a horse and cart, found
a female in a state of complete insensibility lying
on the road side. They placed her in the vehicle, and
she shortly afterwards died. Various marks were ob-
served upon her face, and contusions and discolora-
tions of an extensive character. A medical examina-
tion was forthwith ordered, v. hen, in addition to the
marks of violence on the face, three severe contusions
were found on the upper part of the head apparently
caused by blows and not through a fall. Further
examination also disclosed the fact of the perpetration
of another capital offence, which must have been pre-
ceded by a fearful struggle and great resistance on the
part of the unfortunate woman, and accompanied by
the most brutal violence at the hands of her assailant.
These dreadful facts having been communicated to the
Procurator-Fiscal, no time was lost in apprehending
Laurie and Hamilton, who are both in prison ; and
of course a minute and searching investigation into
all the circumstances of the case is in progress. It
appears that, some time between Hamilton's return
home and the discovery of the murdered woman's
body by the party in the cart, a young man, who
was passing along the road, found Laurie standing
beside Mrs. Hamilton, who was lying on the road-
side in a state of insensibility. He helped Laurie to
carry her for some distance towards her house, and
then offered to wait beside her until Laurie went for
more assistance. Laurie refused to go, however, and
the man most unaccountably left them and rent
home.

It also appears that, if this statement be correetf
the woman must have been carried back to the
original spot, where she was again found by the
parties who eventually conveyed her home. On a
p:=rsonal examination, after apprehension, Laurie's
clothes were found to be stained and marked with
blood, Laurie is a strong, thick-set, middle-aged
man, and resided in the village of Amisfield, about
half a mile from Kirkland.

CORONER'd INQUEST. FATAL FIG SIT. -- MAN.
I,I,AUGHTEIt. Yesterday an inquest, which had be en ad-
journed three times, was resumed and concluded be .fore Mr.
William Baker, jun., at the Seven Stars, Little Fla lt-street,
Bethnal-green, on view of the body of Mr. George t Smith,
aged 46, the proprietor of a beer-shop, No. 1, Pedd y-street,
adjoining, who died in consequence of an injury hill icted
en
him during an affray, by a person of the name James
Cousene, also a beer-shop proprietor, carrying on bin :mess in
the same street. The jury, after a brief consultr;, tiOnt rs-
turned a verdict of Manslaughter against James k
and the witnesses were bound over to prosecute. DI r. CLOUSE=
ws.9 non est inresztus.