The Sun. — 1842-10-19 (London, England)

MURDER AND ROBBERY EN DUNDEE.  EDINBURGH, SATURDAY, OCT. 15.—The follow *Dr particulars relate to a case of murder, perpetrated in Dundee on Thursday night, which, for cold-bloc i ted atrocity, has had few parallels in this part of the cc sintry. On Thursday morning two men, who gave t ieir names as M'Kenzie and Duff, and who appeared 31* substantial north country graziers, on their way from the Falkirk tryst, called at Mr. Croall'a c ,ach. office, Prince's-street, and inquired into varion3 culars regarding the starting of the Dundee co-eb, which leaves here at ten o'clock. They subset fueLtly started b' different routes, but ultimately join ed each. other at .DTewport. On crossing the Tay ferry, M'Kenzie's manner caw observed to be somewhat agitated, so much so, _ the t fa. person who knew him remarked to another that ;hat was Mr. M'Kenzie, an extensive cattle dealer, but that he seemed to have got a slap over the fingers ; ;hus. referring the strangeness of his manner to some . sup. posed loss he had sustained. The coach arrive d Dundee about four o'clock in the afternoon ; and ourinformation regarding them from that time is n( so. precise. What is certain is, that in the evening two men, answering in all respects to these pen ons, and of whore identity with them our infon nant had no doubt, were walking out of Dun lee ; and when beyond the Law, on the northern extre mit? of the town, and close to the Newtyle railway , this short man was shot from behind with a pistol, a ad it is supposed left for dead on the road. The poor man. however, recovered a little, and was able, we have been told, to crawl to some house in the neighl hood, or otherwise obtained assistance, and had RA., cient strength left to tell the whole story, and t a fir upon his companion as his murderer, charging hi in at the same time with having 1,0001. of his proper; ;v• in his possession. Information was immediately se at to. the Dundee police-office, and a search being set on foot, the other was apprehended at eight o'clock yest€ rday (Friday) morning, in one of the carriages in the int train of the Dundee and Arbroath railway. The murdered man died at five o'clock on Friday mo-i The rumour in Dundee, when our informant left, was to the effect that the two parties had dined toget2. er Dundee, and that Duff asked his companion for his property; that he evaded the request, under ther pretence that that was not a proper place for sett ling their accounts, but proposed that they should oth proceed to a friend of his a few miles out in the c( iuntry, where they could get a bed for the night, and might settle their affairs quietly. To this in an evil hour the unhappy man consented. It is said that the tall man bought a pistol fr( a young man in a respectable ironmonger's sho p iu Dundee. It is remarkable that Thursday we! . the fast day in that town, so that he would have fi mnol some difficulty in finding a shop open. It is also raid. that when be was apprehended a large aum of m aey was found upon him.  This horiid case .had excited, as well it nfleat, a great sensation in Dundee, both from the respeciablo sphere in which both parties had previously been moving, and from the deliberate villany with NS hicb the murder must have been perpetrated.