The Glasgow Chronicle. — 1850-12-11 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

DEATH OF MR. ROBERT GILFILLAN.—This gentleman, known to the public se the author of ee• beautiful songs in the Scottish and pieces of - of considerable state, di( to be in in  body  ant of procured, . his house in . was possessed natured by a lay EDI —A  burgh, Pope of iog took , to excees. far as its Almost r' were r  Mr. J. Gibson, which were founded on Dr. fz meeting t UNITED  were app... and laid on from the S,  the mind of qpecial  ehouid- be of the v  day, - .o nit from the "r and " 9  from tri, under ' Toe whole The choruses take the only pro, her parts that there s burn', which tion  riety such study and amateurs; their vo ever  fluenos of Prejudice —when who e  denies to me I spoiler of ' may be a v sad I w *TOP by t. Milton may gun'  Lan . - -....4. was ale° •1111Tt a V 3, "Ini Ity the ' diaPerlia at a ree  MURDER IN duty of -of  suddenly and of the evening of  ult., three persons at least, with the intention of of Kirkland of Tinwald ; ' Wm, Laurie,  . About ten ..8 way home, and _ as to his wife, he and would be in directly. • several persons, in return-4 cart., found a female -ct en the road side.  afterwartla  placed her in the I. Various marks were L _ upon face, and contusions and discolorations of an extensive character. A medical examination was forthwith ordered, when, in addition to the marks of violence on the face, three severe contusions were found on the upper part of the head, apparentll caused by blows, and not through a fall. Further examination also disclosed the fact of the perpetration of another capital offence, which must have been preceded by a fearful struggle and great resistance on the part of the unfortunate woman, and accompanied by the moet brutal violence at the hands of her assailant. These dretdful facts having been communicated to the Procurator• Fiscal, no time was lost in apprehending Laurie and Hamilton, who are both in prison; and of course a minute and searching investigation into all the circumstances of the case is in progress. It appears that, sometime between Hamilton's return home and the discovery of the murdered woman's body by the party in the cart, a young man, who was passing along the road, found Laurie standing beside Mrs Hamilton, who was lying on the roadside in a state of insensibility. He helped Laurie to carry her for some distance towards her house, and then offered to wait beside her until Laurie went for more assistance. Laurie refused to go, however, and the man most unaccountably left them and went home. It also appears that if this statement be correct, the woman must have been carried back to the original spot, where she was again found by the parties who eventually conveyed her home. On a personal examination, after apprehension, Laurie's clothes were found to be stained and marked with blood. Laurie is a strong, thickset, middle-aged man, and resided in the village of Amisfield, about half a mile from Hirkland.—Dumfriss Courier. On Monday afternoon, about four o'clock, a boy seven years of age, named Pellok, ascended to the top of one of the houses at Levenfield, in pursuit of his father, who is • yarn dyer, and having gone out upon a projected erection for raising the goods, he fell to the ground from • height of four stories. He was quite insensible when taken up, and on examination it was found that his right arm and thigh bone was broken, his left arm fractured in three places, and several wounds on his head. The young sufferer was attended to by Dr. Leckie, Bonhill, assisted by Dr. Cullen, and there are some hopes of his ultimate recovery.