Glasgow Courier. — 1864-04-21 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

YOUNG WOMAN AT  RATIIO.  On Saturday morning, the inhabitants of the quiet village of Ratho, about eight miles west Q f Edinburgh, were thrown into a state of great consternation and excitement by the spread of the intelligence that one of most deliberate and premeditated murders which have 'ever disgraced the ciiminal annals of Scotland had been perpetrated that morning, the unfortunate victim being a highly respectable young- `woinan named Jane Seton' who was nurse with Mr Robert Tod (of the firm of A. it R. Tod, Leith Mills), who -resides at Ratho; and her murderer, a young manuamed George Bryce, Who W it( I employed' as a carter by his father) who has a small farm, and keeps a public house in Ratho. The following are the particulars :I—For irconsideralsle time past Bryce had been paying his addresses to the cook in Mr Ted's 'family, but he was of such dissipated and degraded habits - that the nurseorane Seton,frequentlY reproached him for his misconduct, and openly used her influence with the cook to break off the intimacy she had formed with him. Accordingly the cook, without entirely estranging herself from Bryce, has not been much in his company of late. Bryce seemed to feel very much this coldness on the part of the cook, and knowing that it had been instigated to a certain extent hy Jane Seton, the nurse, he formed a great dislike to her, and frequently expressed his determination to be revenged upon her. About seven o'clock on Saturday morning; Bryce left owiyh his 6hns approaching ha t hih i eee lies issnk heßdouawtst hehheoea thnhvodeuarproceededijeea,an aiwebago: mist ;31 t:nbhiay att. htrhoedfi nurse cook,dr sri se Tod 8; in the house. The cook replied Jeanie was in, but that on no account was he to enter. Bryce then pushed the cook aside, and rushing past, entered the house, and proceeded direct to the nursery. Here he found Jane Seton cleaning the room, and in an instant after he had the unsuspecting innocent girl stretched upon the floor, while he himself held her down with his knees, and attempted to strangle her. Mrs Tod, hearing the agonised screams of the nurse, rushed down stairs to the nursery, and, seizing an umbrella, dealt a number of heavy blows upon the head and hands of Bryce,which compelled him to quit his hold. The poor girl, at once sprang to her feet, and fled down the valley to the house of Mr Binnie, a joiner. She was closely pursued, however, by her bloodthirsty assailant, who overtook her at Binnie's door, knocked her to the ground, and drawing a razor from his pocket, drew it across her neck, cutting her throat from ear to ear. The effect of the • wound was instantaneous, for in, a few minutes after the cold, mangled, bloody, lifeless remains of the unfortunate young woman were lifted from the threshold of Burnie's dwelling by the father of her murderer, and conveyed into the house. Immediately after, Bryce rushed from the scene of the slaughter which he had committed; and was twertaket in about an hour after by Constable Mill, a member of the county police stationed at Ratho, and bytwoquarry-L: men. When, the men went forward to capture, hiro-• and when he saw that escape was impossihlet BrYfia drew from his pocket the. razor besnleafed,..wztkoo bl99pagult 1903 kli4 AttgaPM4olo fonalatt,  ._ • .