The Glasgow Chronicle. — 1847-12-08 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

MURDER AT STRATFORD OF A SCOTCEIMAN.  The Galt Reporter furnishes the following particulars of a horrible murder recently committed at Stratford, is the Huron district, Upper Canada :—lt appears that James Cooper or Cooper, a native of Laaarkshire, Scotland, a carpenter by trade, and one Joseph or Joe Smith, also a carpenter, worked together for several months in a workshop in the Main Street of Stratford, and Smith boarded in Cooper's house. They were both occasionally accustomed to drink, and that overmuch. On Tuesday, the 19th ultimo, an acquaintance of Cooper's called on him and said he was going to Scotland, and Cooper wished to write to his father. They, along with Smith, drank several times during the day. Cooper and -SL and a kind of quarrel in the imber which Cooper alleged Smith struck Cooper with his o the shop, he was followed by seen coming out of the back '‘ access to it, used for convenience, as the _ Juse was behind it,) and in a short time Cooper's went to see if anything was the matter, when she found Cooper lying insensible, and his head all bloody. She cried out for help, and after assistance was got, be was helped into the house; for he was so far recovered, that he could walk with the help given. Smith was arrested. Medical aid was called In to Cooper, who grew hourly worse. He lived till Thursday forenoon, when he died. The coroner then called an inquest, who sat the afternoon, and on each of the following days, adjourning over Sunday, when the jury, on Monday the 26tk, through Mr Jae. Woods, foreman, returned a verdict of wilful murder. Cooper Game from near Bothwell Brig in Lanarkshire; lived for some years as keeper of the Humane Society's House at the Green of Glasgow, and was well known there as a most excellent swimmer and diver; and by •a statement given, some weeks before his death, he has saved many hundreds from a watery grave. He was sent for on several occasions to a distance, to recover the bodies of persons drowned, and frequently he had to dive to a depth be could not have gone to, except by the aid of some means to sink his body to the required depth. So a correspondent writes us. Shortly before his emigrating to Canada, he received a donation from the inhabitants of the neighbourhood of Bothwell, for Baring a father and one of his children from being drowned under the ice, where a curling match was then held, and on that occasion he nearly loot his own life. Ile was married in the old country, but his first wife died, and in may last he was married at Stratford to Widow May. He was about 43 years of age. Joseph Smith, the prisoner, is a person well educated, writes a beautiful hand, and received a classical education. He came from Athlone, or its land, and is said to have a wife in 'orked at Woodstock, London, coming to Stratford; and is about Spectator.  iumber  _ and  Ireland, an has worked  before  A age.-11,r- ilton ,  CorrTAGIL—We are enabled! new 2s pieces will not be issued stated in the House of Commons The coin in question cannot poesialation for many months. .—ln the whole parish of Aston, Aston, in the county of Herethat not one single baptism, • place throughout the year  circulation