The Sun. — 1846-04-16 (London, England)

MURDER IN GLASGOW.-It is our painful duty to-day to record an atrocious case of murder, which in the Bridgegate on Saturday night,wh was perpetrated between eleven and twelve o'clock. The victim was an elderly .man, named David Love, a weaver, residing in Tureen-street, Calton, and the circumstances under which he was murdered, were as follow:—Shortly after eleven o'clock it appears Love and another individual, whose name we have not learned, went into an eating-house, Pigs' Feet Tavern, in the Goosedubbs, kept by a person named Daly, and called for a small quantity of victuals. Previous to their being consumed, however, the reckoning, amounting to 6d. was demanded, and it turned out that neither Love nor his companion, owing to some misunderstanding, had any money. This gave rise to some altercation between them and the people of the house ; but so far as we have ascertained, it consisted principally of abusive language on the part of Mrs. Daly and her servant, a girl named Cassidy, on account of their having been put to the trouble of setting down food to individuals who had nothing to pay far it. Ultimately the watchman being sent for, or hearing the noise, went into Daly's; but after this there was no disturbance, as Love and his companion went away peaceably, seemingly satisfied to escape from the disagreeable position in which they were placed. They had only proceeded a short distance along the Bridgegate, when Love was knocked down from behind by a blow on the back of the head. This blow there is no doubt was inflicted by Daly, he having been seen to do it by several persons who were close by at the time ; and the result was that Love literally died on the spot. The unfortunate man was lifted and carried into the shop of Dr. Gribben, but it was of no avail—the vital spark had fled. After the occurrence Daly was accused of having killed the man by some persons who had seen the deed committed, and amongst others by a:man named Adams, a brass-founder, residing in Gorbals, who followed him into his own shop. when Mrs. Daly struck him on the mouth for making such an accusation against her husband. Daly being thus warned that the person he had struck was dead, by the time the police heard of it he had effected his escape, having re• treated, it is believed, by a back door. Immediately after. wards the corpse, along with Mrs. Daly and the other persons in the house at the time, were taken to the police-office; but up to a late hour last night, the alleged murderer had not been apprehended. The girl Cassidy states that Love and the man who was along with him were both very tipsy, but the other accounts do not agree with this statement. Love appeared to be a decent elderly man, and we understand he has left a widow and three children to lament their unhappy bereavement. A post mortem examination of the body is to take place to-day. In the meantime it is supposed that the deceased had been struck on the jugular vein, an that that was the cause of his untimely end.—Glasgow Argos of Monday. The Journal des Chasseurs, a Freneli sporting magazine, has published a curious statement of the results of the royal huats in the Crown forests ;fromt _ 5, the enormous which it appears that during the years 1840-1-2-3-4 a quantitp of: .154,517 animals (birds% andlolves, quadrupeds) have 5,2415 foxes; 213 wild:dogs, been destroyed, thus specified-88 i• 97 ,badgers, 3,659 polecats, . 30 7,784 cats.; 34,452 Hedgehogs,g,o9s, 4,4 weasels,l,nazards, 7,451 hawks, ' , 10,170 owls, 1,466 crows, 21,540 magpies, 19,479 japs, 6,030 squirrels, 10,822 rats and dormice.