The Sun. — 1861-08-07 (London, England)

HORRIBLE MURDER IN GLASGOW.  On Sunday night about 8 o'clock, Robert Pattison, aged 48, and residing at 3, Caithness.street, PortDundas, and who is an assistant-inspector of poor in the city parish, went to the Northern Police-office in a state of intoxication, but for what reason could not be ascertained, as he was either too drunk or too stubborn to tell his wants. Captain Nelson ordered him to be locked up for protection until he became sober. Between 11 and 12 o'clock, the fact that a barbarous murder had been committed at 3, Caithness-street, by a man, who had cut his own child's throat, was reported to the police, and soon Superintendent Nelson arrived on the spot to make the necessary inquiries. He found the dead body of the infant lying in a bed in the single room which formed the dwelling-house, as it afterwards transpired, of the prisoner, with thethroat car to ear, the head being almost severed cut from from the body. Dr. Miller was also soon upon the spot, and had the body conveyed to theet police office. On sinquiring as to who the suspected murdereranditfi awsre,aMotn*. Nelson heard the name Pattison, , his mind that his prisoner for protection was the man " wanted." Accordingly he was examined at the police-office, found many blood and upon his shirt breast were yci th Ae marks, as of the spurting of blood from an arter secondpoliee werevisit successful was then paid to the house, an in finding the instrument used in the commission of the horrible deed ; it was a razor, and both sides were clotted with blood. This article was found partially hid in a mat on the beds and near it was a towel, with which it appeared he had wiped his hands after washing them of the blood. The prisoner, Pattison, is a widower, his wife having died Idied about three weeks ago ; and at least, since then he has been drinking hard. He had another child by his-wife, between three and four years of age, and his wife, having been previously married, brought with her two children at their marriage. One of these children was sent off to the poor-house or some other place, a week or two since, and the other stepchild seems not to have been well used. The deceased infant, Magdeline, was be3t liked by Pattison of all the family, and about half-past three Henderson, o'clock it was left by him in charge of a Mrs. Henderson. He went out then,retu. half-past five o'clock, and took the infant into t the into house with him. About 7 o'clock Wm. husband of the woman above mentioned, w cnneiiur, nghbg about o the prisoner's house, and undressed and put to bed the deceased infant, the prisoner shortly after going in beside it and his other child, in a partially left them, andstate.ed no William n illlioarme Henderson soon afterwards neighbours. A little before eleven o'clock, Mrs. Henderson, finding Pattison's stepdaughter (a child of 10 or 12) about the stairs the husband went in with it to the prisoner's house, the door of which Pattison not when a answeringshoeki pntog his was unfastened. The a artmen ts being dark, and name, a light was obtained, sight presented itself ; in the corner of the bed an interesting little child, of three or four yearsl theo age, was bod sittingthe child, crying, and on the pillow ay with its throat cut as already described. The little child, when questioned by Mr. Nelson, spoke very clearly to the fact that. she had seen her father with a "knife (razor) cutting Maglin in the bed." spoken to about the te cdh ehde manhad whe n ow, ignorance of the ' committedSp showed, or prewltodreesh tderneldaldeedfu whole matter. What tempted him to destroy his most and to spare the other • is a mystery, but probably this may be discovered by and by.  CooLLIE