The Sun. — 1861-08-07 (London, England)

HORRIBLE MURDER IN GLASGOW.  On Sunday night about 8 o'clock,Robert Pattison, aged 48, and residing at 3, Caithness-street, PortDundas, and who is an assistant-inspector of poor in the city parish, went to the Northern Police-office in a state of intoxication, but for what reason could not be ascertained, as he was either too drunk or too stubborn to tell his wants. Captain Nelson ordered him to be locked up for protection until he became sober. Between 11 and 12 o'clock, the fact that a barbarous murder had been committed at 3, Caithness-street, by a man, who had cut his own child's throat, was reported to the police, and soon Superintendent 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 cuptf,raonma ear to ear, the head being almost severed from the bhoaddyt.heDhord. yMeilolnevrewyeads atolstohssoopnoluicpsonoffithese.sot On inquiring aunradeirterflashed on was, Mr. Nelson ha se atrodwthhoe thhaemseusppaetcttiesdo hm, his mind that his prisoner for l)rotection was the Aancdcorudpionnglyf A seconds n his he shirtw as examinedbreabreast we ar et police-office, wanted." eaen. ot effid c. 's' , ftohuendhemnaene,yabeldootdhemar mthaen the spurting of blood - the instrument usedvisii from an artery,visit was the then commission paid policeksa were successful in findingof the horrible deedb);mitd Thiswas arazort and both sides adand were clotted 'withic le was near t i found. wa partially hid in a mat on the be article s a. towel, with which it appeared he had wiped his hands after washing them of the blood. The prisoner, Pattison, is a widower, his wife having died died about three weeks ago; and at least since then he has been drinking hard. He hral. another child by his wife, between three and four years of age, and his wife, having been previously married, brought with her two children at their marriage. One of these children was sent off to the poor-houseor some other place, a week ,or two since, and the other stepchild seems not to have been well used. The deceased infant, Magdeline, was best liked by Pattison of all the family, and about half-past three )o'clock it was left by him in charge of a neighbour, Mrs. Henderson. He went out then, returning about half-past five o'clock, and took the infant into the house with him. About 7 o'clock Wm. Henderson, husband of the woman above mentioned, went into the ed in deceased infant, thee,an prisonerdundres shortlysedand put to after thebdgoinge in beside it and his other child, in left them, and no more was seen of neighbours. A little before eleven, o dressed state. William Henderson 20 afterwards Pattison by his Henderson, finding Pattison's stepdaughter (a child of 10 or 12) about the stairs,h the husband went in with it to the prisoner'was unfastened. The s house the door of _whicil. Pattison not apartmenta being d_.ar.k,. wasand obtained, when a ,answering to his name, a light. shocking sight presented itself. , in the corner of the bed an i;ateresting little child, of three or four years of aye, 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 fad that she had heen her father with a " knife (razor) cutting Magi in in the bed." The wretched man when spok( m to about the dreadful'deed he had committed showed, or pretended to show, ignorance of the whole matter. What tempted him to destroy his 'most loved child 'aclopekar:i: and to spare the other is a my sti ex y, but probably this may be discovered by and b r,