The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1841-04-02 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

MURDER AT DUNDEE.—On Tuesday last the inhabitants of this town were again put in a state of considerable excitement, by the body of a female child, about two months old, having been discovered floating in a p001...0f stagnant water, near the depot of the Dundee and Arbroath Railway at the harbour. The body, which was nearly in a state of nudity, was conveyed to the Post-office. On the afternoon of Wednesday, a great many persons having gone to view the body, it was identified by a female to be the body of a child belonging lo Catherine Sytnon, a worker in one of the spinning mills, upon which an officer was immediately despatched to the mill, who found her at work, and brought her to the office. She appeared rather unconcerned, and admitted at once that she was the mother of the child, and that it was by her hands that it came by its death. On the following day an officer, on going •to the house where she lodged, and searching it, found concealed in the straw of the bed where she used to sleep, the whole of the clothes which the child used to wear, and which, we are informed, were upon it on the evening when she carried it out of the house, thus showing the deliberate manner in which the murder must have been committed, she having stripped off the clothes previous to consigntng it to its watery grave. The case is under judicial investigation, and will no doubt be tried at the ensuing Circuit Court. We understand the reputed father of the child is a married man. The prisoner is a native of Errol, but has been about Dundee' for a number of years ; she is moderately good-looking, of the middle size, about twenty-eight or thirty years of age, and appears to be of a still or sullen temperament. She has another female child about five years old.—Dundee Warder.  rvt M displayed bH Ey the young LL. N otw it hs man,tan MlTCHELL.—Notwithstanding i Johnng Mitchell, the levity os nOcNen conviction and sentence for the murder AssizesofMr. aafnGeorgetTderilifEhlci C Blackburn, near Barnsley, at the Yorkshire last week, we understand that after he had received one or two visits from the Rev. W. Flower, the chaplain of York Castle, a visible change took place in his demeanour and expectations. Though from the first he expected that a verdict of guilty would pass against him, he had the infatuation to suppose that be should ultimately obtain his freedom after suffering a short term of imprisonment, and to that, we suppose, may be attributed his apparent unconcern. We have heard that application is to be made to the crown on his behalf for the exercise of the royal clemency in consideration of his youth, and the apparent unpremeditation of the attack upon the unfortunate deceased. What may be the issue of the application we cannot say ; but, looking at the evidence adduced, and the terms of the judgment pronounced by Mr. Baron Rolfe, we have not much hope of a successful result. The accidental circumstance of the judges having been detained at York over Saturday night, will give the unfortunate deceased a respite for a week ; as, if they bad left the assize town before last Sunday, execution would have been done on Saturday next, but as the judges did not leave till Sunday, the execution will be postponed till Saturday the 10th of April.