Glasgow Courier. — 1850-10-01 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

THURSDAY, SEPT. 26.  John Henderson, inspector of poor, and collector of poor rates for the parish of hlontrose pleaded guilty to the embezzlement of the funds committed to his trust, to the extent of £302, between March, 1847, and February, 1849, and was sentenced to seven years transportation. Alm Black, sex, A. Black, jun., Thos. Spowart. Jas. Johnston, Demist Kinghorn, 'Henry Donaldson, John Donaldson, John Bell, Jain Seaton, Adam Barter, Duncan ilPNaughlon, and Georg. Philip, all charged with being com:erned in the riots which took place in Dunfermline on the 24th of June last, when the Irish colliers were expelled from the town, pleaded guilty to several of the counts in their indictments. The first four prisoners were sentenced to 10 months, and the rest to 18 months' imprisonment. James Blues and John Robertson Storntonth were indicted for the murder of John Crumbie in Dundee, on the 25th of March. The first witneas examined was Margaret Robertson, who was engaged to Crumbie, and had been in his company on the evening he was killed. She was first struck by Stormunth, and when ermine took her part both of the prisoners attacked him, and in the scuffle that ensued he was stabbed with a Wisel about the shoulder, and died in consequence of the wound shortly afterwards. The poor girl, on being asked to identify the clothes Crumble had on when he was murdered, which were drenched wi.h his blood, was thrown into a state of painful agitation, and wept bitterly. After two or three sitnesses had been examined, the prisoners retracted their pleas of not guilty, and pleaded guilty.—Blues of culpable homicide, and Stornionth of assault, but not with the chisel. The pleas were accepted, and the jury accordingly found them guilty in terms of their own confession. Blues was sentenced to seven years' transportation, and Stormonth to one year's imprisonment. - Clark and Janes Mitchell were indicted for the robqo and 7 ' "e with £8 or £9 in money, ;er in Arbroath. James - le and another young been carrying home the watches and money in a box to -'s house, on the lath of last January, when they - two men and robbed of the whole. About the Mr. Mosey, Superintendent of the Edinburgh which lati him W opprehead Clark  ' and Mitchell in a house in the Grassinarket, where between thirty and forty of the watches were found tied up in a parcel, which Clark and Mitchell had brought with them from Dundee a few days previously. After a very lengthened investigation, the Jury found the charge of robbery not proven I against Clark, but found him guilty of reset of the stolen articles. In the course of the trial Mitchell retracted his original plea of not guilty, and pleaded guilty of resetting eight of the watches, and was accordingly found guilty in terms of his own confession. Clark was sentenced to seven years' transportation, and Mitchell to eighteen months' imprisonment. William Kailler was indicted for the murder of a young child at Snipetown, about eve miles from Perth, in June last. The particulars of this case were of a very painful description. Keiller had recently been liberated from the Aberdeen Lunatic Asylum, , and was boarded with a family at Snipvtown. He had only been a few days there when he one evening seized hold of a child which the woman of the house was sitting with upon her knee at the door, and swinging it round by the feet, dashed its brains out upon a log of wood. On being placed at the bar, it appeared very evident that the prisoner was not a fit subject for trial. Drs. Malcolm and Clerk were ezainined regarding the state of his mind, and concurred in thinking him an idiot, and accordingly he was ordered to be kept in confinement, subject to the orders of the Court. The other cases tried during the day were mostly of a trifling description. In the last case, which was one of theft, after the prisoner, a young girl, had been found guilty and sentenced to seven years' transportation by Lord Ivory, she addressed his Lordship in the following terms:—" Thank you, toy Lord, for the sentence. I don't regret the sentence; but Fru only sorry that such low characters (meaning some of the witnesses) should have the power of transporting a person sixty degrees better than theinselves"—a speech that drew forth hearty laughter from the Court, and in which both their Lordships cordially joined.