Glasgow Courier. — 1850-09-17 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

SEPT. 10.—This town and neighbourhood were thrown into the highest state of excitement and alarm at an early hour yesterday, by the arrival of several persons from the vicinity of Ballinagh, who rushed into Cavan with the frightful intelligence that Dr. Creighton, lately come to reside near Ballinagh, had just murdered one of the ladies of his house, and immediately after put an end to his own existence. This information was but too true. Dr. Creighton was a native of this county; he resided near Cavan up to the period of his entering Trinity College, where he graduated and took out the degree of Bachelor of Medicine. He commenced his professional career in Townsend Street, Dublin, where he practised with considerable success ' • he subsequently changed his residence to either 24 or 2,5, Great Brunswick Street. Some short time ago his manner bee .me very eccentric; his mind was evidently weakened and warped, and he became full of the idea that a conspiracy was on foot to destroy him, and that the members of his own household were deeply engaged in this plot. This deranged state of intellect became so palpable, that hie frieuds were advised to withdraw him from practice altogether, and remove him to the country. he and his family returned to this locality about two “30114118 ago, where, It was hoped, that by turning his attention to agricultural pursuits, his mind might be diverted from those miserable hallucinations by which it had been preyed on ' • arrangements were made for that purpose, and he was settled on a farm of some extent, Heath Lodge, the estate of William Humphreys, Esq. of Ballyhaise, on which an excellent house and suitable officea have lately been erected. Dr. Creighton's monomania was a conviction that his friends were endeavouring to poison him in hie flood, and wtmeedintly he refused food for several da)s. He would frequently lie down on the lawn, or in the fields, and eat grass, in order,as he said, to prevent the execution of the plane of thotie around him. On all other subjects he was perfectly clear and collected, and conversed lathe most rational manner. He was not placed under restraint, and walked about the ground, and roads at pleasure. His family consisted of an aunt., Miss Creighton, advanced in life and infirm, a young lady named Faris, a near relative of his own, and a servant man. On the morning of yesterday (Tuesday), at about nine o'clock, Dr. Creighton went to his aunt's room, and told her that the servant was waiting to shave him, and begged of her to give him his razors for that purposg—they had been purposely kept out of his reach; but seeing how calm and collected he wae, and hearing from him that the servant was in attendance, she did not hesitate to give them to him. Miss Creighton, it appears, was still in bed, for he said to her, in leaving the room, " Aunt, you need not get up; 111 send your breakfast up, when it is ready." He then went down stairs, and nothing farther was heard or seen of him until about a quarter of an hour after, when Miss Creighton, on going down to the parlour, and finding It empty, proceeded to the kitchen. Her horror may be Imagined, on reaching this spot, to find Mies Faris lying dead on the floor, a pool of blood around her, and her bead nearly severed from her body. A broad mark of blood, commencing near the dead body, next attracted her attention. She surmised, and that correctly, that it was the blood of her unfortunate nephew, who, she thought, had wounded himself, and then fled from the house Into the plantations adjacent to it. She tracked this second stream of blood to the closed door of a pantry adjoining the kitchen, but not opening into it. On pushing open this door, which was merely closed to, but not fastened, she found him bathed In blood, and just expiring. He never spoke, and died in a few minutes. She immediately fled to the house of a magistrate the neighbourhood, William Smith, Esq., and gave the on the bodies of these unfortunates by coroner, and a highly respectable jury, and with the too well known state of  Accordingly,