The Express. — 1861-08-06 (London, England)

MURDER AT GLASGOW.  A shocking murder took place on Sunday night at Glengow, in the north-west part of the city.  About 8 o'clock, Robert Pattison, aged 48, residing at 3, Caithness-street, Port Dundee, and who is an assistant-inspecter of poor in the city. parish, went to the Northern police-Ace, in a state of istexication, but for what reason could not be aseseisinel, as he was either too drunk or too stubborn to state. He was told to go home, but as he refused to do this more than once, he was about to be turned out of doom when Captain Nelson, the superintendent of the northern division, passed through the lobby to inspect the night form prior to their being sent on duty, and as Pattison seemed to have identified Mr. Nelson be asked to see him. The sergeant told him that as Mr. Nelson was sawed he could not see him at present; but Captain Nelson bearing the conversation ordered him to be locked up for protection until he became sober. The man was accordingly locked up and well was itthat this was done, as afterwards was proved. Between 11 and 12 o'clock at night the fact that a barbarous murder bad been committed at 3, Caithnees-street, by a man who had cut his child's throat, was reported to the police, and soon Mr. Nelson arrived on the spot to make the necessary inquiries. He found the dead body of the infant , lying in a bed in the single room which formed the dwelling. ' house, as it afterwards transpired, of the prisoner, with the throat cut from ear to ear, the head being almost sevend from the body. Dr. Miller was also soon upon the I spot, and had the body conveyed to the polioe-office. Os inquiring as to who the suspected murderer was, Mr. Nelson heard the name "Pattiacm," and at once it flashed on hie mind that. his prisoner for protection was the man "wanted." Accordingly be was examined at the poliesoffice, and upon the shirt-breast of the latter were found blond marks. A second visit was then paid to the house, sod the police were successful 'in finding the instrument used in the commission of the horrible deed. A razor both sides of which were clotted with blood, was found psi-Sally hid in a mat on the bed, and near it was • towel, with which it appeared he bad wiped his hands after wash. tog them of the blood. The prisoner, Pattison, is • widower, his wife having died about three weeks ago, and at least since then he has been drinking hard. He had another child by his wife, between three and four years of age, and his wife, having been pre. viously married, brought with her two children at their marriage. One est these children was sent off to the poorhouse, or some other place, a week or two since, and the other step-child seems not to have been well used. It was locked out on Sunday morning by its step-father, the prisoner. The deceased infant (Magdeline) was best liked by Pattison of all the family, and on Sunday, about hell-pasts three o'clock, it was left by him in charge of • neighbour, Mm. Henderson. He went out then, returning about halfpast five o'clock, and took the infant into the house with him. About 7 o'clock the husband of the woman abovementioned went into the prisoner's house, and undressed and put the deceased to bed—the prisoner shortly after going in beside it and his other child, in a partially dressed state. Henderson soon after left them, and no more was seen or heard of Pattison by his neighbours. A little before eleven o'clock, Mrs. Henderson, finding Pattison'a stepdaughter—• child of ten or twelve—about the stairs, the husband went in with it to the prisoner's house, the door of which was unfastened. The apartment. being dark, and Pettis= not answering to his name, • light was obtained, when a shocking sight presented itself ; in the corner of the bed • child of three or four years of age was sitting crying , and on the pillow lay the dead body of the child, with its throat cut as already described. The little child, when questioned by Mr. Nelson, spoke very clearly to the fact that she bad seen her father with a " knife, cutting Maglin in the bed." The wretched man, when spoken to about the dreadful deed he had committed, 'bowed, or pretended to show, ignorance of the whole matter.—North British Mail.