The Sun. — 1851-10-09 (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 he came out of prison for one of these offences the crime for which he 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 he had been previously tried and imprisoned. The jury unanimously found Haggerty guilty, Lord COLONSAY 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•Cluekey 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 bcarge in Scotland of a wife poisoning her hus". It appears that an old man, named Thomas b"eveY, who earned a living by dealing in apples, utter, Beh about six month , and other articles, took into his house Mullen, as al a ago a young Irishman, named David edger. Macvey soon had cause to suspect an improper eel, • • wife, Sarah MeGaue, purgineY Was nexion between this man and his out of doors. mac, n, when the former was turned vomiting and The late lodger (Mullen)°ll extreme suffering died week wake the same night, Thursday week, and after suddenly taken ill with the following Sunday. the following day the was hurriedly burieT body and mad wake the same night, and On a his appearance at the terment taken place than Mullen°"en" had the inpreparations for getting married, and the widow made on the part of the neighbours became ut the suspicions Mullen was pelted by a mob of womenexcited, and as he left the house. In the eantimeal.ed children m that the woman had purchased arsenic at alt•larae out on the Thursday her husband became ill, anrduggist's on the Saturday before his death, which she ostaeitg atin tiously 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 snaking 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. woCoal  ...iMITTAL OF A COLLECTOR OF %Tolls G•ciy...—Yesterday Mr. Inspector Levy, of the asi.i division, couveryed Mr. Bowmann, the collector of the aefteed and property taxes fur the parish of Deptford, to desan ounds Mr, Hills, of High-street, TAXES TO MAIDMaidstone, as a defaulter to an amount little short of a thoudairyman, and Mr. liouldsworth, of Lewisham, farmer and dairyman, are his sureties. It is said that there is ample property available to make geed the deficieaciea. Mrt 11401 Y Deptford, tallowman hays held the app9inteaut many ' years.