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Glasgow Courier. — 1857-07-30 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

ALLEGED MURDER NEAR 11GLYTOWN.--011 Sunday morning the inhabitants of Holytown were thrown into a state of intense excitement by a report that a man named John Dick, a collier, who resided in one of the mining rows belonging to Messrs. G. & J. Burns, had murdered his wife. The woman was found lying dead on the thor of the house. The police apprehended her husband and took bins to Hamilton Prison, where he will lie until an investigation takes place. It is stated that that night before her death the deceased had consumed in a short time a full bottle of whisky. She was the soother of some seven children, all of NA 110111 died young.  Toe. BitcristillivisTELL A SATIRATii-Ktmenit.—Tho Christian public will be gratified to learn that the British Minister at Washington, Lord Napier, sets a good example as to keeping the Sabbath—steadfastly refusing to receive visitors on that day. We understand that a commodore in our navy not lon.. since called ut Lord Napier's residence on the Sab-both. The servant who Came to the door informed him that his Lordship did not receive visitors On Sunday. • But lam Commodore Dupuy,' replied the visitor. It makes no difference, sir,' said the servant, the will not receive you. 'But go tell him Commodore Erastua Dupuy, of the United States war steamer Susquehannali, has called." 11l do so if you insist upon it: but I know he'll not receive you for it is not kin cu,torn to receive visitors on Sunday.' Fhe finale was that the commodore hail to depart without seeing the Minister.—New York Presbyterian. STnATmccir GATriEnlNG.—This gathering came off on Friday last, near Castle Grant. There was a numerous and enthusiastic attendance, and the various competitive games were well contested. RemAnnAintE PRonucc.—The re arc; now growing (says the Dumfries Courier) at Mousewail PI ice, nine stalks of oats, which have all sprung from a single seed, and are all in full ear. On one of the stalks which was examtlied there were found to he 190 seeJs of corn. FoitoEitY Ca A Cotta Mmtenst.cr.—At the Western Circuit at Exeter on Friday, Richard Macey, a corn merchant, of highly respectable connexions, was indicted for feloniously uttering a forged bill of exchange for the payment of 1:70, with intent to defraud the Devon and Cornwall Banking Company on the 18th of February, 1837. 'Flio jury found the prisonei guilty, but recommended him to mercy. The judge sentenced the prisoner to six years' penal servitude.  Tug Mcannu OF Mu. Larrr.z.--It is not certain whether Spolien will be put upon his trial at the next commission of oyer and terminer, which opens on the 4th proximo, or whether it will b postponed until the conuni,sion following, which sits about the middle of October. The case for tho Crown has been intrusted to Mr. Fitzgibbon, the eminent Queen's counsel, and ono of the ablest criminal lawyers at the Irish bar. Spollen's eldest son, who gave rather reluctant an 4 not very important evidence against his father at the police investigation, his bcen dismissed from his employment at the railway works at Broadstone.
Glasgow Courier. — 1857-04-09 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

TRAGEDY IN KENTUCKY.  FLr.mi NOSBURG, KT, Maucu 14.—This neighbourhood (says the New-York Tribune) was the scene of most ohooklps tragedy 10 Sunda), night, to  iotice of which appeared in the last Maysville Eagle. Die circumstances have awakened an intense exciteaent throughout the adjacent counties. The person killed lived about six miles from this village, and though well to do in the world, was not ,f very good repute. His name was Jam, a Taber, Ind he was murdered by his own slave, in his own 'louse, while lying in front of the fire on the floor isleep. The negro was convicted of the act to-day, wider his-own confession, and is to be hung on the [4th prim. He is not at all insensible of his crime led seems to have been terribly wrought upon by 'll5 late master, and declares that he does not regret he deed ; that he was frightfully ill-treated personilly, and was time and again ordered by Taber from :he house, for the sole purpose of compelling his wife to submit to his (Taber's) brutal and depraved lists; and to this latter cause may be traced the awful tragedy which follows. After he consummated it, both himself and his wife fled from the house and secreted themselves near by in a thicket. In the morning they were pursued by the neighbours, and the woman, in a paroxysm of fear, when she saw they were likely to be found, rushed to a small stream at hand and drowned herself in water not exeeeding ihree feet deep, before she could be overtaken. The man, however, was captured, and at once admitted his guilt, and wholly exculpated his wretched wife from any share of thr I deed, or any knowledge of it until the moment the axe cave the head of his master in twain. Such a chapter as this does not need any comment. It is easy enough to conceive how these poor wretches most have been excited by the outrageous treatment 'they received from their guilty master; but while the laws of the State inflict almost summary punisbmen upon them, they take no cognisance of the offences against them, and their oppressors go oft Scot free. Is it a cause of wonder that such scenes as this are so frequent in slave States ? Rather is it not to be wondered that they are not of every day occur 'rem's? While this tragedy was being enacted in the country, another scene was transpiring in the Court House in town. A young man was bring tried for murdering his neighbour, having first struck him with a bludgeon, and then stabbed him to the heart, killing him dead all in broai daylight, and in the presence of half a dozen witnesses. All this was proved clearly and beyond any sort of dispute—the first word, the blow, the stab, and the death. And yet this man was declared innocent. Like young Wood, he was too respectably connected and too wealthy to fear conviction. Are jails and gibbets reserved exclusively for 'poor white men' and ‘niggersf'
Glasgow Courier. — 1857-03-10 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

LONG— W hile in the secretary's room was any surgeon sent for?  N'i.ritness—lies, Sir. Our own surgeon was called in immediately. Policeman Ball, 340 S, produced a knife, new, and having upon it marks of blood. (The blade was about five inches in length, and the handle was rudely formed. The implement was such a one as is usually used by butchers for slaughtering pigs and other animals.) He said—The gentleman who had been wounded said to me that the prisoner stabbed him in several places, and that be succeeded in wresting the knife from the prisoner; that he got him down in the carriage, when he held him as long as he could. On their way to the station-house he repeated what he had before stated as to the knife not being his. Mr. Alford, surgeon, No. 25, Haverstockhill, said—l was called to attend the wounded man (Mr. Alfred Buckley) about half-past eight o'clock on Thursday evening. 1 found him at the station. His clothes were aaturated with blood. He had a wound in the neck about an inch long, and nearly an inch deep, inclining upwards. After taking off his clothes I bound a wound in the upper part of the left arm of about the same width, but much deeper. There were scratches on his forehead, and a contusion also on the right side of the chin, and between the forefinger and thumb of the right hand, which the gentleman accounted for by saying that they were caused during a struggle which ensued when he was endeavouring to get possession of the knife. The wound in the neck was about one-third of an inch from the carotid artery, and had it penetrated that vessel death must have immediately ensued. Mr. Loy—Look at this knife, sir. Are the wounds you have spoken of likely to have been inflicted with such a knife? Witness—Most certainly. . . . .  Mr. Luxton here said that he had been to the house at which the unfortunate sufferer lived, and that he found him in a very weak condition. Mr. I.oNo to the prisoner)—This is a charge of a most serious nature which has been preferred against you. If the person whom, as alleged, you have stabbed should die, which may probably be the case, you may be put upon your trial for murder. The prisoner, after being cautioned in the usual way, said--I was in the carriage, and asked the gentleman what o'clock it was. He told me it was 20 minutes past 8. I told hint that his watch, which he had pulled out, was too slow. We had some words, when he struck me. I struck him, lie pulled out his knife, saving that he would have my life. Iliad a struggle with him, and got the knife out of his hand. I called for help, and he called ont • Murder.' On the train stopping he gave me into custody for attempting to take his life. The prisoner was remanded. Front inquiries made by our reporter subsequent to the magisterial investigation, he was informed that the injured person was in such a state as to render his recovery extremely doubtful. At .5 o'clock on the arrival of the Government van, the prisoner was conveyed to the House of Detention. A considerable number of persons had congregued round the vehicle to obtain a sight of him.
Glasgow Courier. — 1857-01-03 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

AND ATTEMPTED MURDER OF THE DAU ATER, IN BUCK 4.  On Tuesday evening the usually quiet village of Wing, in the county of Bucks, was thrown into the greatest state of excitement by the report that a most deliberate murder had been just perpetrated in Littleworth, In the parish of Wing, by a most highly respectable widow lady, aged GC years; and what makes it appear worse is, that it was her own grand-daughter that was the victim.  From what we could glean of the case it appears that the murderess's name is Maria Beckett, widow of Jonathan Beckett, brewer, who resided at Littleworth. At the time of his death, two years ago, he left his property and business to his son Jenny, for him to provide a home and maintainance for his mother. Since then up to within a few weeks she has remained living with her son and his family (he eatrying on the business of brewer, butcher, and grocer), and receiving 12s. per week to do as she thought proper with. A few weeks back she went to live with a married daughter, of the name of Bowden, still in the same place. On Tuesday, about three o'clock, she left Bowden's house and went to her son's; when she got there the son's wife asked her how she did, and if she was come to see them ? She replied ' I have not been here since the shop has been altered' (meaning the grocer's shop) She then went into the house and sat down. She then said 'I have come to see you, but not on a very plesant errand (she then closed the parlour door, where some tradesmen were at work), for I have come to kill you all.' The son's wife made answer 'Don't say so' mother.' She replied Oh, I must do it ; I am mail, and the devil tempts ine to do it, and he has given me a razor on purpose.' She then at once took a razor out other pocket and opened it, and caught hold of the son's wife round the shoulders and attempted to kill her with it. The daughter called out for assistance and the workmen rushed ioto the house, and took ;he razor out of her hand. After being thus foiled In her attempt here, she at once proceeded out of the house into Bowden's and immediately took up a knife and proceeded to the cradle, where Mrs. Bowden's youngest child was asleep (Jane Bowden, aged 11 months), and at once commenced cutting the child's throat, severing the pipe in two, and in the space of three minutes the little innocent had ceased to live. Mrs. Bowden at the time was up-stairs, and hearing the child scream, ran down, and there she found the baby as stated. She immediately caught it up in her arms and ran to hei brother's house for assistance, but it was of no avail. Information was at once given to the proper authorities, and the wretched woman was at once secured; and now remains in custody to await the coroner's inquisition. Since she committed the act she appears very silent and thoughtful. No motive can be assigned for this rash act, as it has been always remarked that the greatest amount of friendship and kindness appeared to exist between all the family.
Glasgow Courier. — 1857-01-15 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

HIGH COURT OF JUSTICIARY.  This Court met on Monday—present on the bench, the Lord Justice-Clerk, and Lords Cowan and Deaa.  Peter Maclean, Christina Peters or Maclean, and Wm. Mansfield were pat to the bar, charged with hating, on the 15th or ltlth of November last, in the public road leading from 13ithgate to East Whitburn, attacked and murdered Thomas Maxwell, a miner, with a knife, having also struck and kicked him on the head and other parts of his person ; and also with assaulting John Maxwell, the brother of the deceased, and stabbing him with a knife, and otherwise violently injuring him.  The Solicitor-General and Mr. Donald Mackenzie, Depute-Advocate, attended for the Crown. The prisoners were defended as follows :—Mr. Miller appeared for Maclean, Mr. John Lorimer for Mrs. Maclean, and Mr. A. B. Shand for Mansfield.  The prisoners pleaded not guilty. John Maxwell, miner, deponed—l live at Durhamtown with Thomas Con nikv. I had a brother named Thomas Maxwell who lived with Alexander Gray. Durhamtown is about a mile from Bathgate. I was bathing with my brother on Saturday, the 15th November. We were in several public-houses. The last we were in was Chalmers'. I recollect of going in, but not of coming out. Got fuddled. Thomas was there with me. I could not say what o'clocx it was when we went into Chalmers'. A person named M'Mullen was with me. I knew the prisoners. I did not see them in bathing that day. I know the house where Patrick Derellin lives. It is in the last hounds the row of houses as we leave Bathgate for Durhamtown. I do not recollect being in that house on my way home. On the rout trim Bathgate to Durhamtown there is a railway bridge over the road, then a bridge over a stream called Boghead Brichze. I recollect going along the road on my way home. The first thing I recollect was that Peter M'Lean ran up to me with a knife, and said he would rip me foes —.' I jumped to one side, and he missed tho stroke, but I saw the knife glancing in his hand. I also saw Mansfield and Peter's wife ant daughter. When Peter missed me, Mansfield struck me with a stone or something hard in the hack of the neck. I fell to the ground. and do not know how long I lay. The first thing I heard was Mansfield saying, Let him up, there is enough of harm done.' M•Lean said he would never let me up, that he would kill me. They went away then and left me. I don't remember seeing my brother Thomas at the time or after I was assaulted. I walked home along the railroad. When I got home my leg got very sore. I examined it and found it cut to the bone. The doctor was sent for and see ed it up. I was in bed when I heard that Thomas had been found dead. I never saw the body. By Mr.
Glasgow Courier. — 1857-06-02 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

THB EUROPA.  it Quebec. correspondent of the .York he 17th, Despatches been land, stating that the position of laid down in the GenNapier, relative sfactory fr  reply of to Chinese . British Cabinet. the request for peaceful intervention Jur governrepresentation and sight to the b, ie London Post, that k ur government was for 30e0u5. Joint armed in ecidedly declined. Our p-operate by  , and this is believed to be as it was obviously the only pro. adopt.' has also the following despatch dated the 18th:---' Lorti. Napier I any reply from the Secretary )3al to re-open negothilions reral American olue,tion. Lord lied the att-ention of our govern' certl4!.o British subjects for in. tlreytown. Mr. Cass will, in of Secretary Marcy's letter to Mb it is clearly shown that there  New-York - of the be  in anticipation of -rs of the - the  . of Department to that law has 20th section  the rule of  not schedules of di  specially is act of  not so susceptible of - duty cf 13 per cent. the Ist of July neat, laws, whether deed by law, or pass.. from one port of the irrespective of the - or  ction on the part of the Newliscover the murderer or morel!, the New-York Times had t Major 3.l.Culloch had declined Utah, and that recent informsange in the policy hitherto conlion of -Utah now being such as ['ensures. Troops in large DlMthither, probably under comirney. New-York Herald, Dr. Caldwell sma from an exploration of the He followed the track of LieuAvanced to within sight of the atio ocean, and was within five tre he intended to halt, when his d him. In this emergency, and want of water, he determined Having reached Panama, he the department at Washington, rably of the inter-oceanic ation of the land place. t of Brigham Young from Salt be incorrect; he was there e - canal, does not ex PAL 1 North American Royal 11 John Leitch, command I May, with a& ices ad New-York, by Lit ult. She brings ,nd 168 passengers. steamship Asia, the Hamburg, and the , • and Sorthampton, had --•11 steamship I screw-steamship  gal or equitable.' eorrespondent of the enceer the ratification at Britain and Honduras shall t, la to the completion ot the Dallas,. rtclodiog all the amendments of beetrremoTed, and Lord Napier ie name of his government, to r" the Tpeasury, . s just issued to the officers general regulations under ion law. As the act of March ight extent the classification c' e act of 1846, the construc" the Treasury Der his, except where provisions. of the ust,.. furnish articles  •everal articles, s liable to a lic store on t warehousing 1. toils° authorised er bond from sother, will, ir, al importation bonding, 'al for consumption, to the rates ey the act of 1857. As to the wool, nnmanufactured, of the 1, or less, at the port of expory decides that the value in the s not include the expenses of I, or chargoa incurred in ship.
Glasgow Courier. — 1854-02-04 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

MILL.—A very distres.ing accident occurred stew weeks ago in a steam flax mill lately erected at Little Bridge, near Cough, in the county of Londonderry. .A young man named Terence Morris had only a week before commenced working in the mill. The metal rollers being quite new, and being supposed not to be working smoothly, a portion of the flax was observed to I be carried round one of them instead of passing on through. The young man very inadvertently I caught bold of the flax with his right hand to pun I it out, when in an instant he was drawn in between the rollers, which weighed 25 cwt., up to the shout. der. In this truly agonising state he was detained for about one hour and a half, all efforts to raise the rollers by means of bars of iron proving useless ; they had to send some distance for a carpenter to cut down ths wooden frame and get him extricated. His arm, from the fingers to the shoulder, was crushed in adreadfal manner; scarcely an inch of the bones that was not broken; hit elbow joint was torn open and twisted round; all the muscles and biood-res>els were torn from his ribs under his arm, constituting a frightful injury. He was conveyed seven miles to the Magherafelt Workhouse Infirmary, where the operation of removing the arm at the shoulder joint was performed by Dr. Vesey, the medical gentleman of the neighbourhood. Very little hope was entertained by any of them of his surviving such an injury. We are, however, gratified to learn that be is rapidly recovering.—Beijust Chrwricie.  PROTESTANI CONTINZNCE —This great Meeting will probably be held in Edinburgh on the first week ' of March.—Witness. Tat Berra Tamixov.—The young woman so murderously assaulted at Beith by the farmer's son, who I subsequently shot himself, has progressed very fa- I vourably since her removal to the Infirmary here, and great hopes are now being entertained of her recovery. SALMON Fl6lll,loB.—The fishing season in the Tay commenced on Wednesday, but owing to the river being much swollen by the melted snow and recent heavy rains, only 25 salmon were caught at the different stations by two o'clock afternoon, four on the lower and twenty-one upon the upper stations, via: —Linn of Campsie, II; Bellymore, 1; Burnmouth, 3 ; Muirton, I; North Inch, 3 ; Cargill, 1; Stanley, 2 ; Hatton, 2 ; Inchyra, 1; Flukey, 2 ; Venture, 1. Recently, at Edinburgh, Professor Anderson gave his audience a specimen of table-rapping, which he showed to be a juggle, though in America thousands have been driven by it into a state of religio. frenzy. After making the spirit enclosed within a hollow table obedient to his behests, to the satisfaction of his audience, he then removed the top of the table, and exhibited the said mysterious agent, which consisted of a small hammer similar to those which beat the hours of our clocks, and which was under the influence of a galvanic battery, connected to it by a wire conducted along the floor from beneath the stage.
Glasgow Courier. — 1861-07-04 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

MELANCROLY CASE OF DROWNING. —A little boy, five years of age, was drowned in a pool of water within the precincts of a brick-work in Dundee, on Saturday afternoon. Deceased, in company with a few boys of his own age, had somehow got within the work after all the men had left for the day, and were playing together at the edge of the pool when the accident occurred. The boys on land, apprehensive of no danger, seemed rather amused at the poor little fellow struggling in the water, and unfortunately mire no alarm mail the chill finally disappeared from their view. When alarm was given, a number of men were promptly on the spot, but the boy was brought to the surface quite dead.  WIDER IND SulcinE.--Last week, • painful sensation was created in the purlieus adjacent to the Great Northern Railway Station at King's Gross, by a rumour that a married woman, named Jane Pale. thorpe, residing at 15, Northampton Street, near the Old St. Pancras Road, had murdered her three children by poison, and had subsequently, by the same means, effected self.destruction. On entering the house a piteous sight presented itself. On the bed lay the unfortunate mother in a state of perfect insensibility, although still alive, with the youngest child, Harriet, clasped to her breast in a similar condition, and the boy Thomas (a remarkably tine child) lying by her side apparently lifeless. There were evidences of some one having vomited on the door, and on being questioned the eldest boy stated that his mother gave them all something out of a bottle. and when she went to sleep it made him sick. The child Thome was found in a comatose state, and, notwithstanding all efforts to rouse and restore him, he expired in about three-quarters of an hour. By dint of strong applications of ammonia to the nostrils. pinchings, and violentshakings, the unfortunate mother and the other child (the female) were brought to estate of consciousness. On search being made ...  the bottles were found, one having thereon a label, on which was written "Laudanum—poison," and the other had had the label scratched off, but both had contained that poison. Distress at her husband having deserted her, and starvation, are assigned as the causes of the rash act. The poor woman could only earn 51 a week at slop work for her own and her children's support. She is, however, not married. Her offspring are the illegitimate children of John Palethorpe, a former resident at the Bank, Leeds, but originally from Nottingham. The woman's name is Harriet Gilbertson, or Kilvington, and seven years ago she worked as a staymaker in Leeds. Palethorpe was then married, but his wife soon left him to cohabit with another man. The woman Gilbertson was his wife's companion, and proceeding with him to London (where he was employed as a porter at King's Cross Railway Station), they lived together for some years, and had three illegitimate children. Palethorpe deserted them a year ago, and it is not known by his family in Leeds where he is now residing. Gilbertson has neither father nor mother, but it is believed she has a brother residing in Leeds.- Leeds Mercury.