Glasgow Courier. — 1860-01-05 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

SUSPECTED MURDER IN THE BACK WYND. Isabella Irvine, who keeps a small shop for the retail of sticks, biscuits, and other trifling articles, ,in 116, Back Wynd, off TrOngate to Bridgegate, met her death, on Tuesday, under circumstances of a most painful and suspicious nature. Between eleven and twelve o'clock a little girl, on some errand, entered the shop, the door of which was open, and saw the deceased lying on the floor covered with blood. The constable in Bridgegate was apprised of the circumstance, and entering the place found things as represented. The woman was found lying on her back, across the hearth-stone, with herfeet towards, and a yard or two from a bed, which is in the shop. There was a poker lying diagonally underneathler. and covered with blood. A four legged stool, ' also daubed with blood, lay a few feet from her. It wanted two of the legs, which were found close to the body. The face, head, and hair, were so much clotted with blood that the natural appearances were not din. tinguialiable. Her outer garments were not on her; a shift and petticoat being her only dress. On examination, by the medical officer, Dr. M`Gill, it was found that she had received severe injuries on the head. There were marks of wounds, one on the back part of the sk.uli,, one above the eye-brow, and another on the face near the mouth. Blood was flowing When the body was discovered, and a pool had collected on the floor. The flesh was still warm, and it is considered that death had not taken place long previous to the discovery. So far as the police authorities have been able to expiscate the facts of the case, there seems to be little reason to doubt that deceased met her death by violence. The wounds do not suggest the idea of their having been occasioned by a fall. A series of falls might have produced them; but they are 80 violent that one of them would of itself have been sufficient to render her helpless. In that case the others are not accounted for. There is only one floor apartment in the house, which was used as a shop, and in which there was only one bed. A trap led from the shop to a small room above, in which there were three beds. According to the testimony of the neighbours, the house has for some time been frequented by loose chara'cters. Two prostitutes have been known to stay with deceased recently. A middle-aged man, respectably appareled, was known to have left the louse in the morning, and, on examination, he said he had been with deceased during the night, and left her in bed about nine o'clock. Before he left, he alleges that a girl came down the trap from the room above, and was kindling the fire when he went away. He further I says that deceased was sober. There is not as yet sufficient evidence to trace the death of deceased to any one, but the investigation is being vigorously prosecuted. We may just add that the fire was black-out when the circumstance was discovered, and that deceased was too far from the bed to warrant a belief that she had fallen out accidentally.  PoCKETPICHING. —At the Central Police Court yesterday, a man, named James Bruce, was convictted of stealing 190 2d from the pocket of a man in Stockwell Street on the previous night, and was sent to prison for 60 days.  Tann, OF A