The Sun. — 1839-01-16 (London, England)

DREADFUL MURDER.  from the w We have seldom(Abridged been called upon toGlasgo record aArgus.) more melancholy case of murder (perpetrated, we hope, for the sake of human natbre, under the influence of insanity) than that which we have this morning to lay before our readers. It is the murder, by stabbing, of a girl, deaf and dumb, by the hand of her own brother. The supposed murderer, M`Kinnis, and his sister, Helen, resided alone in the same house, and no person witnessed the bloody did, so all that is known of tl e circumstance comes from the information of the unfortunate man himself. On being examined in the Police-office, he stated somewhat incoherently that he felt unable to support his sister, and under the apprehension that she might be lett to starve, resolved, as a lesser evil, to take away her life by violence, which he (Id by,stabbing her its various parts of the body with a knife. He appeared unsettled, ' frequently said he loved bis sister, did not think she would have struggled so much, and once uttered the exclamation, " 0 my God," and almost felt to the ground. Ile soon reeovared, however. His information in reference to themode by which his sister's death was produced, received awful corroboration on an inspection of the body by the police. The poor girl was found lying on the filer, covered with a mat, with 7 or 8 wounds caused by stabbing in various parts of her body, deep wounds had been inflicted in the neck, throat, and breast, and two gashes in the belly, front which the bowels were protruding, besides several cuts on the legs and thighs. It appears that she had been in bed, when the dreadful thought of murder entered the head of her maniac brother, for we cannot conceive that the died was committed in a rate of sound mind, That some of the wounds were inflicted while she was its bed is certain, as the 1.1 inkets in various places were pierced through, as if by a knife, and M`Kinnis's own account corroborates the fact. On Vie assault taking place she seems to have risen from the bed, anti attempted to disarm him, for his own hand is cut, as if in a struggle to retain the In fa. This dreadful affair appears to have taken p'ace about two o'clock in the morning. At that hour some of the neighbours heard a female scream; but imagining that it came from the street nothing was thought of the matter. On Captain Miler and the police entering the house, they were much sti uck by the conduct of a dog, which at first resisted their admission, and afterwards lay over the corpse of its mistress whining, as in great distress, and refusing to leave the spot For some time it prevented an inspection of the body taking place, and had latterly to be removed by force The knife, with which the deed had been committed was found all bloody on the floor. We have already stated that Helen M'liinnis was deaf and dumb, and by all acounts, she was a quiet, inoffensive, and industrious girl, and rather 1;1mi-to:ling. Her brother, it is said, was much attached to her, and nothing resembling a quarrel was known to take place betwixt them. The idea of her dying by starvation, which seems to have taken possession of her brother's mind, seems sufficient proof that he was labouring under hallucination of intellect, if not in a state of thorough madness. M`Kinnis, is, we believe, about 30 yea! s of age, and has of late been too much given to the use of intoxicating liquors. His eye is wild and unsettled ; but considering the dreadful circumstances in which he is placed, his demeanour is, on the whole, calm. His unfortunate sister was about 23 years of age.  nONEY