Glasgow Courier. — 1844-03-14 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

SECO. Geddes, tie on at Edinburgh. The trial excited a great deal of the Court-house was crowded during the day. The • the Lord Justice-Clerk, Lords Moncrieff and MacRobertson was also present, but not officially. Aenent charged the prisoner with murder and robbery, in so far as, on the 26th or 27th of Dec. last. within the dwellingFrom the Ipswich Express of Tuesday, the 12th instant, house situated at Blair Weary, parish of West Calder, then cccopied by John Geddes, labourer, the prisoner did, with intent to We learn that during the course of the previous five days, possess himself of money and goods belonging to John Geddet, attack and assault him, and did with a pair of tongs or other , instrument inflict several severe blows on hie head and other parts no fewer than four destructive incendiary fires had taken place in that neighbourhood. The journal in question of his body, and did with • cord or other ligature compress his concludes its account of these occurrences, by stating, that throat so as to strangle him, or nearly so, and did with his feet . • I and knees trample and press upon his breast and sides, by all g't wn awful fire is now raging at the time of going to press, i which Geddes was mortally injiired in his person, his skull, his at Barking, near Needham Market, the flames of which lower jaw, and his ribs being fractured, and in consequence there- , he immediately, or soon after, died, and was thus murdered by ina, be distinctly seen from the town. The two Suffolk the said James Bryce.—The charge for robbery bore that having so attacked stud assaulted Geddeti, did wickedly and fele- . """"IPlklrOffiee eagiegrere-despatched, and the greatest anxiety Measly, and by force and violence, rob him of a sum of money in prevails at Ipswich."—Any other intelligence of importance current Coin, or in bank notes, the amount and particular descnpreceived by this morning's mail is subjoined.—On Tuesday tion thereof brim; unknown, but part thereof, to the amount of 1.4, being in half-crow n pieces, or in other silver coin, a canvass afternoon Consols for Account closed at 981. or barn bag, a ailver watch, a pair of shoes, a belt for the waist, a , bolster slip, or two pillow slips sewed together, all the property of the said John Geddes, and that the prisoner, Bryce, being conscious of his guilt in the premises, did abscond and flee from justice —There was another charge, varying the crime of robbery to that of theft, and to all of which charges the prisoner (who is a singularly stern and severe-looking man) pleaded Not Guilty. An objection was taken by Mr. CRAWFORD, counsel for the 'prisoner, against a proposition by the Crown to produce the wife of the panel, not as a witness, but to be seen by other witnesses, in order to identity her as the party that pawned a watch ; but the Court repelled the objection. The evalence then proceeded. From the statements made by the witnesses, it appeared that Geddes washeard in his own house on the night of Tuesday, the 26th December, and that some person was heard coming to the door, whom Geddes admitted; they were afterwards heard talking together in the house, but no other noise