Glasgow Courier. — 1854-01-21 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

MURDER OF A STOLEN CHILD.  SeSDEILLAND, Mosimr.—A paragraph in the Meese Saturday gave the particulars of a brutal murder of a child by a woman in the Bishop Auckland Union Workhouse. This case is creating • painful degree of interest, Inasmuch as the murdered child le discovered to have been kidnapped from a poor woman of the name of Thompson, in Minorca Place, in this town. It appears that the prisoner, who stated to the coroner that her name was Isabella Thompson, but whose real name is Crosier, in June last had been engaged from the workhouse at Sunderland by the poor woman Thompson, to attend to • baby about twelve months old, at the time she (Mrs. Thompson) was confined to her room through sickness. On the lgth June Crosier, who wems to be of gipsy origin, absconded from the town, and took the child with her. The greatest exertions were made to trace her steps. She sae advertised in the Police Gazette, and • reward of £6 was offered for her •pprehenaion, or the recovery of the infant to Its parents, but no trams could be found of her or Ow kidnapped baby. The prisoner had been cohabiting with • man named Mood, and had been travelling about the country in the neighbourhood of Auckland, and on the authorities at Sunderland ascertaining that a child had)' -a been murdered them under the circumstance, already detailed, they directed Inspector Temple to go a Kb Mrs. Thompson to Duelmin jail and look at the prisoner. Immediately upon seeing her she identified her ma the servant who was uvith her in June last, and who stole away her baby. The body of the child han been since distinterred at Bishop Auckland, and Identified by Mra. Thosnwou as her lost child.  -7- , CALIDON lAN RAILWATe-Thit Company% parlia. trisenlst7 estimate for their Lesmabagow branches, relinquishment of works, and arrangement of share and loan capital, is certified at £126,000.  THE Coxvicr C1.141111X0 —So far as we can learn no reply bas as yet been received from the Home Office as to the conclusion arrived at with regard to the ultimate fate of this unfortunate man. The re. spite emends to Wednesday first. —Ediaburgh Advertiser.  The Rev. William Carrick, minister of East Kilbride, has received handsome gratuities from the Right Honourable the Earl of Eglinton and Winton, as proprietor of Cleuchern, Mrs. Harington of Torrance, James Clark, Esq. of Crosabasket, and James Hamilton, Esq. of Rogerton, for the benefit of the poor belonging to the parish, by which the kirk session has been enabled to minister to the wants of not • few during this inclement season. _ -  A farmer of Re9uista, near Rode., was in the habit of cruelly ill-treating his horse. A few days ago, the animal being at liberty, rushed on him, throw him down, trampled on him, and bit him ly. He uttered loud cries, but it was some time before they were heard, and when at length some persons went to his assistance he was quite dead. A New Conn.—The Pariamento of Turn Mates from Florence that a crime of • new klad was cow. mined there last week in the publlo audience hell of the Criminal Tribunal, when the crucifix used by the judges to administer the oath to witnesses was discovered to have been stolen just a few minutes before the judges had taken their seals. The perpetrator of this audacious act has not yet been discovered. DZSZITION Or