Glasgow Courier. — 1844-01-25 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

DIED. important Trials, are posted the day after publication at 13s. per Thefol. One Assembly—Lady, 55. • Gentleman, 7s. 6d. On Friday a dreadful and desperate murder was committed in .ame.At Lisbon, Gonuthsgeowloth inst. Isabella- daughter of the late Mr. Tick*year, paid in advance. Burntislind, which caused deep and general excitement and regret ' ' ^ --• 0,- EdIOOND ASSEMBLY will take place on Thursday, 22d Apply to A. Fraser, News Agent, 19, Home Street, Edinburgh. amongst the inhabitants. A man named SHman, a shoemaker, we " KinAit.Levernholm, on the 22d Marv,. the infant son of Mr. John F..b. •-.AJ A believe, who bad been frequently under restraint while living FOR SCHOOLS AND D vionly in Berwick, bad been heard to threaten to kill several At 18, Clarence Street, Everton, Liverpool, on the 21st instant, str Orr,' • resrepectable individuals in the town and neighbourhood, under a .. mental delusion that they were possessed of and withheld some Pars. tam money or property belonging to him. However, no belief seem,a At New Cathcart, on the 17th inst., Mrs. Agnese Hamilton, relict of Archd. Brown, Esq.,Nisbet, relict GGlasgow.to have been entertained that he would put any such thrant into of Mr. John Gray, fenar in Tradeeton. At Moray House, Edinburgh, on the 16th execution, and be was allowed to go at large. But wife of Mr. Hugh lit'Corquodale, aged 60 years. or the evening before, he had been seen sharpening At the Manse of Peterhead, on the 16th inst., the pointed knives, and the Provost being made aware of tisk Donald, A.M. stance, we have been told by Sliman's father, he granted a wnrrant to the town officer, named Conitorphlue, to apprehend him The shalt beStayEbelly, on the 19th instant, William Stewart, Req., of latter sent to Kinghorn for Simpson, the town office' At his father's house, Charlotte Street, Ayr, on the 20th inst., moist him, and in the course of Friday forenoon the 7 Mr. George Templeton, aged 29 years. fOOlllll in the Links, when Contorpluse,. taking hia At Newton Green, Ayr, on the 18th instant, Mr. Maitland told him he would consider himself &prisoner. The Din,.kil'Hutcheon, baker, aged 60. on what warrant; bat before it could be produced, strum. At High Street, Ayr, on the 23d inst., in the 30th year of his into the officer's hand, nearly cutting it in two, and it auotner after a short illness, Mr. William Miller, jun., cork-manufacinstant ran the knife into his heart. Corstorphine held the warrant of apprehension under his vest, and it was pierced through by the knife, in its passage to his body. He fell down instantly, and expired in two or three minutes. The maniac fled to his own house, where he barricaded himself ins garret; and as it was dangerous to come near him, another officer was sent for to Kirkaldy, and the posse coninsitatos raised, armed with such lethal instruments as they could lay bold of. Finding they could o easily break into his barricade, orders were then given, and slt 1 i ters procured, to unroof the house. This proceeding bad commenced,, when Slimen, imagining the egress would be now free, undid the door, and bolted down stairs; but was fortunately secured by the officers before doing farther injury to any one. a wife and several children in Burntialand. The officer e was unmarried, but much respected in his office, and and tragical death is much lamented by the whole  WILLIAM ALAXANDER, Writer to the Signet. Adam & Charles Black, Edinburgh. '