The Sun. — 1851-10-08 (London, England)

THE GLASGOW CIRCUIT. GLASGOW, MONDAY EVENING.—This was the closing day of the Glasgow Circuit Court, which has been remarkable beyond any that has preceded it for the number of trials arising out of deaths by violence, and the injuries from shooting and stabbing. As already noticed, a man named Hare was sentenced on Thursday to be hanged on the 22d current, for murder by stabbing ; and to-day, a powerful Irishman, named Thomas Haggerty, had a narrow escape from the same fate. He was accused, under the Cutting and Maiming Act, of stabbing Mr. Frederick Irvine, a tartan manufacturer (who had given him no offence), to the danger of life. The case was fully proved, and it came out in evidence that since 1844 this fellow had been convicted and imprisoned no fewer than 10 separate times, for crimes of assault committed in Glasgow. On the very day on which be came out of prison for one of these offences the crime for which be was now tried was committed. Before leaving his lodgings he had sharpened his knife, stating, on going out, that he would " rip up any one who encountered him," and that it would give him especial satisfaction to shoot the Procurator-Fiscal, at whose instance be had been previously tried and imprisoned. The jury unanimously found Haggerty guilty, Lord COLONSAT remarking that had the DeputeAdvocate not restricted the libel, he would have felt it his duty to have sentenced the fellow to be executed. He was sentenced to transportation for life. A painful sensation has been created in Glasgow by another cruel case of stabbing. It appears that at a late hour on Friday night, or early on Saturday morning, three Irishmen were upon the streets, when one of them, named Patrick M'Cluskey, had a quarrel with a man, whose name is unknown. In the course of the struggle M'Cluskey was cruelly stabbed ,• his left thumb was nearly severed from his hand, and his bowels protruded to the extent of 14 inches. The assailant coolly walked off, the bystanders, of whom a considerable number had collected, believing that the quarrel was an ordinary street fight. The magistrates have offered a reward of thirty guineas for the apprehension of the unknown stabber, and meanwhile M Clu.key lies in the Infirmary in a critical state. A still more painful sensation has been excited in Greenock by the occurrence of the happily rare charge in Scotland of a wife poisoning her husband.buttereY' about six rnaonitnhcis ago a young It appears that an old man, named Thomas 7110 earned a living by dealing in apples, fish, and other articles, took into his house as wife, Sarah MiGuljirio Irishman, named David Nlacvey soon had cause to suspect aen impropjerc, out of doors. Macvea' when vomiting and purginYg n between this man and his following the former was turned the extreme suffering diedo\vn" on Thursday week, and after suddenly taken ill with The late ledger (Mullen) made wake ona athh:3 wake the same night,appearancSeuantdtaleye. had the inday the body was hurriedly buried, children terment taken place than MalieT'an:il2.lnaewring preparations for gettlng married, b on the part of the neighbours becamatthetnehewexcidailitidi Mullen was pelted by a mob of worn° as he left the house. In the andmeantime that the woman had purchased arsenic at a Larae .out on the Thursday her husband became ill, andugs7:3 on the Saturday before his death, which she osteiaatiaatiously mixed with oatmeal in the shop, on the pretext that the poison was intended to kill rats, although it has been ascertained that rats did not infest the house. The woman was taken into custody, and the body was exhumed on Saturday last, and Drs. Auld and Laurie are engaged in making a chemical analysis of the contents of the stomach and bowels, with the view of determining the existence or non-existence of poison. Meanwhile the people of Greenock are in a state of painful excitement on the subject until the result of the chemical analysis shall have been known.  ... £3,331 15 3  the week.