Star.
London, England, 1818-11-09 00:00:00

EXECUTION AT GLASGOW.

Of the fitir persons sentenced to death at the Glas-
Now Circuit, Matthew Clydesdale, for murlert Simoa
oss and Janus Boyd, for housebreaking and theft;
and Margaret Kennedy, for passing forged notes, two
only, Clydesdale and Ross, were, on Wednesday,
hanged in front of the Jail—the reptl clemenc• hav-
ing been extended to Boyd and Kennedy, who are
respited daring the pleasure of the Poises hest T.
Clydesdale, it will be recollected, was foand guilty
of the murder of an old man, ALEXANDER Love, sen.
near Airdrie.—Exactly at two o'clock, the Nlngis-
trates, with rods of office, entered the Hall. The pri-
soners, with their arms pinioned, were immediately
brought to the table. The Rev. Dr. Loccuatyr and
the Rev. Mr. Macuaszia assisted them in their de-
votions, and Ross's father was present. The neve.
rend Doctor informed the Magistrates that the priso-
ners confessed their guilt. They joined in prayer,
kneeling. On the devotions in the Hall being con-
cluded, the prisoners received privately an exhorta-
tion from the Clergymen.
At a quarter before three o'clock, the hall, which
had been extremely crowded, was cleated; and the
unfortunate men proceeded to the scaffold. All
things were soon adjusted, and by five minutes past
three the drokilell. The crowd was extremely great,
and the ground was guarded by a strong detachment
of the 40th Foot, covered by cavalry.—The bodies,
after hanging nearly aahous, were cut down. Clydes-
dale's was put into a coffin, and by means of a cart
was forthwith conveyed, for the purpose of dime-
don, to the Professor of Anatomy. The cut was
followed by a large portion of the crowd. In t! e
dissecting-room Dr. JETTRAY was waiting. A num-
ber of experiments in galvanism were forthwith made.
The convulsions excited were so strong, that the
limbs were thrown about in every direction. The
scene had such an effect that a person present fainted'
Incisions were made in various parts of the body for
the purpose of applying the galvanic power.
Clydesdale was about '2.5 years of age, by trade a
weaver, and sometimes sunk the shafts of coal pits.
He has left a wife and two children--his father and
mother are alive. He was born in the parish of New
Monkland, but at the time he was apprehended he
resided in Bothwell. During his confinement he was
afraid of unearthly visitations. Although the Judge
most pointedly forbade him to entertain holes of
mercy, he said to a person immediately ;Per his con-
demnation, " Do you think they'll hang nick .--Simon
Ross was a native of Glasgow, al4ed abeut '2O, by
trade a butcher. Ile has been often in custody en
suspicion of committing offences; but the crime for
which he suffered was a trifling house-breaking corn-.
mitted at Ruthereen.
Before the respite for the other criminals was re-
ceived the male convicts were all conti..ed in one
mom. Here they attempted.to break prison—an
attempt, under the circumstances, as foolish as if
they had tried to lift the jail. They were, however,
put in irons. -

MURDER VZ HERTFORDSDIRE.—OD Wednesday 1 t
an inquisition was taken at Broxbourne, on the body
of John Cooper, who was found murdered on the pre-
ceding evening at Spittlebrook-hill. Cooper had been
in the habit, for a considerable time past, of b in4-ing
packages of fruit to London in a chaise•cart, and re-
turning the same evening, generally with a co iside-
rable sum of money, arising from the sale of his fruit.
On Tuesday night, about nine o'clock, upon his re-
turn from one of these journies, he called at the White
Horse public-house, at Wormley. Several labouring
men were there, but it was not observed that they
took any particular notice of Cooper. He continued
in the house only a few minutes, and den resumed
his journey towards home. The bloody deed was pt •
petrated within a few minutes after his departure ft om
the White Horse•. About half:past nine o'clock he was
found lying dead on the ground, in the middle of the
road, at Spittlebrook-hill, near the sillage of Brox-
bourne, within the distance of a mile from the Whitt:

Horse; his arms were extended, and hi, hi ecches'.
pocket on the right side was turned inside oat. Ile
was conveyed to the Bull at Broxbourne, and a
Surgeon was immediately sent fur, mho, upon exa-
mining his person, discovered that a dreadful wcund
had been inflicted on the forehead; the scull was frac-
tured, and the instrument which had been used for.
the purpose, apparently a hammer, had renetrated
the brain. His pockets were completely Hied : no-
thing but a few papers were found upoa his persoa•
The horse and cart were discovered at the di- tance of
about one hundred yards from the body. The front
of the cart was sprinkled with blood.—The •Jury re-
turned a verdict of—Wilful Murder against some per-
, son or persons unknown.
Ffue.—Between 11 and 12 o'clock, on Friday.
night, a fire broke out in the workshoput Mr. MA soy,
cabinet-maker, the corner of Green's-buildings, New-
cut, Lambeth, which burned with great fury, and
consumed the entire of the building, with its contents,
a great quantity of timber, cabinet-makers' tonic, arc
before . any engines ,arrived. The workshop was a
few paces behind the dwelling house, but so detached
that the flames happily did not communicue.