The Sun. — 1842-10-18 (London, England)

MURDER AND ROBBERY IN  DUNDEE.  EDINBURGH, SATURDAY, OCT. 15.—The following particulars relate to a case of murder, perpetrated in Dundee on Thursday night, which, for cold-blooded atrocity, has had few parallels in this part of the country. On Thursday morning two men, who gave their names as M‘lienzie and Duff, and who appeared to be substantial north country graziers, on their way home from the Falkirk tryst, called at Mr. Croall's coachoffice, Prince's-street, and inquired into various particulars regarding the starting of the Dundee coach, which leaves here at ten o'clock. They subsequently started by different routes, but ultimately joined each other at Newport.  On crossing the Tay ferry, M'Kenzie's manner was observed to be somewhat agitated, so much so, that a person who knew him remarked to another that that was Mr. M'Kenzie, an extensive cattle dealer, but that he seemed to have got a slap over the fingers ; thus referring the strangeness of his manner to some supposed loss he had sustained. The coach arrived at Dundee about four o'clock in the afternoon ; and our information regarding them from that time is not so precise. What is certain is, that in the evening two men, answering in all respects to these persons, and of whose identity with them our informant had no doubt, were walking out of Dundee ; and when beyond the Law, on the northern extremity of the town, and close to the Newtyle railway, the short man was shot from behind with a pistol, and it is supposed left for dead on the road. The poor man, however, recovered a little, and was able, we have been told, to crawl to some house in the neighbourhood, or otherwise obtained assistance, and had sufficient strength left to tell the whole story, and to fix upon his companion as his murderer, charging him at the same time with having 1,0001. of his property in his possession. Information was immediately sent to the Dundee police-office, and a search being set on foot, the other was apprehended at eight o'clock yesterday (Friday) morning, in one of the carriages in the first train of the Dundee and Arbroath railway. The murdered man died at five o'clock on Friday morning. The rumour in Dundee, when our informant left, was to the effect that the two parties had dined together in Dundee, and that Duff asked his companion for his property; that he evaded the request, under the pretence that that was not a proper place for settling their accounts, but proposed that they should both proceed to a friend of his a few miles out in the country, where they could get a bed for the night, and might settle their affairs quietly. To this in an evil hour the unhappy man consented. It is said that the tall man bought a pistol from a young man in a respectable ironmonger's shop in Dundee. It is remarkable that Thursday was the fast day in that town, so that he would have found some difficulty in finding a shop open. It is also said, that when he was apprehended a large sum of money was found upon him. This horrid case had excited, as well it might, a great sensation in Dundee, both from the respectable sphere in which both parties had previously been moving, and from the deliberate villany with which the murder must have been perpetrated.