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Glasgow Courier. — 1854-01-21 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

JAN. 17.—0 n Thursday last the prisoner WDonald made another statement to the chaplain of the forces here, the Rev. G. W. Langmaid, in which he said that he had also murdered a step-brother. The chaplain went to Mr. Gifford, the superintendent of the Devonport police, and that official having returned to the military prison, the prisoner made the following confesaion After the death of my father, my mother married • man named Lambert Heaton, a small farmer residing in the parish of Heaton, about two miles from Bolton, Lancashire. Mr. Heaton at that time was a widower, and had an only boy, named John Heaton, who was about fourteen neon of age About seven weeks after my mother married Lambert Heaton a great disturbance took place between my father and mother about me. He took • dislike to me. I was at that time about fifteen years of age. Shortly after this my mother gave my step-brother butter on his bread, and would not give me any. She continued to do this, and it man quietness to Lambert Heaton About this time John Heaton was taken ill with • cold. In consequence of my stepbrother being allowed butter on his bread, and I none, I , formed a dislike to him. Whilst he was ill I was working at a rope-walk in Bolton Moor, in the employ of. Mr. Riley. lone day told my mother that I was poorly,•nd could not go to work, and I remained at home. On the same day my mother went down the street to buy some vegetables. She at that time told me I might warm some milk on the fire for Johnny. During the time of her absence I took the milk dots to the crllar. The milk was in a little tin can. There was sonic poison in the cellar kept for poisoning rata, some of which I took and mind with the milk. I then tools the milk up stairs and warmed it. Afterwards I put it into a jug, and gave it to my step-brother, who drank it About two hours afterwards my brother, John Heaton, complained of sicknets. He got worse, and about two or three days afterwards he died. (Witness) 'ROBERT GIFFORD, Chief of Police.' This confession was signed by the prisoner in the presence of the chief of police and the chief warden. Mr. Gifford has received notice front Brigade-Major Wetherall that the prisoner will be in a condition to be taken out to Roborough-down on Thursday morning, at seven o'clock, when he will be accompanied by a military escort, to search for the body.  ..• river Timer a. 714/40441111,44S i ...-4 metered the Bleak See, they premed- ed , . --; iMprege- -.enant King Hawkins,°madam% went a, . rive-r . Orhttutt HIPPeo• t 6 es 4.lhelyikligeig Isfreso et,ftioplik Alde QUI* imad es —... of NA esooormod the met thathe employed • Mittplp),Palned Wilitan, ...„ ve„ • few.faintly /-••• . thex oeryetrongly ' The Turkish v On lifieli=m4 it took 41114'oltP9*- °.r,. or eat el Me eou VIA* ii" owl er to ilyilhatita. i Miming to mod 1144-of-1444a411111111 inept pretteaskees absurd ia themselves, br• lite he • • • mid on taw tabard, and l' the mvey the world, be of the sett et Lord Graveso v_ 4 thereby. th ~ ' , - la e air Lieutenant , g et evening, en, ending hod us, in
Glasgow Courier. — 1861-08-29 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

DAVID LIVINMITONE,  ..... LAVNCII OF A DIVING-BELL BOAT. —Mesare W. Simons & Co., Loudon Works, Renfrew, on Saturday, launched a new iron diving-bell boat for the River Clyde Trust. It is complete in every par. ticular, and all the details have been manufactured there. Thia craft is of a peculiar formation, to suit the particular service for which it is designed, and is by far the largest and most powerful in capacity and capability that has yet been adopted on the Clyde. It is capable of blasting and removing 30 to 40 feet below the surface, the hardest and largest rocks. Thn divingliell is 8 feet square, weighs 9 tons, and in it safely Can be accommodated 4 or 5 workmen. The apparatus for lowering and hoisting is of the moat efficient construction, and it is supplied with air by large and complicated brass air-pumps, of the most perfect description and workmanship ; arranged along the 'deck are powerful winches and cranes, and various other purchases ready to meet any contingency. There are also comfortable cabins for 20 workmen. The addition of this vessel to the dredging plant of the Clyde Trust in a renewed evidence that the trustees are determined that no obstacle in nature shall hinder them perfecting our noble river, and that it shall yet be Unproved to such an extent as to receive the largest merchant ship that floats, or in it safely to launch the heaviest mail-clad war ship which may yet be designed. ATTEMPTED MURDER AT Ay.—On Sunday morn. ing a number of men and women had been drinking in a shobecn in Limond's Wynd, Wallacetown, Ayr, and among those were a man of the name of Win. Irvine, a collier to trade, his wife, and her sister, Margaret Hanna, the victim in this drunken squabble. It appears that Irvine had gone home to his own house in Wallace Street, about seven o'clock, very much the worse of liquor, and had gone to bed. He was almost immediately followed by his wife and her sister, the former of whom at once proceeded to belabour her husband, tearing his hair, and finally dragging him out of the bed. Irvine. very naturally, from the state he was in, became enraged, and having got a knife, swore he would put it into the first one that came near him again. N9twithstanding this threat, the woman Hanna, aided and abetted by her sister, continued to annoy Irvine, who at last, wound up to a perfect state of fury, plunged the knife into the throat of his sister-in-law, inflicting a fearful wound, the knife entering the right side of the throat, cuttirg across to the left side, , making a wound of about eight inches in length. Dr Burns was sent for, and, on his arrival shortly after the deed had been perpetrated, ho found the Unfortunate woman lying in an insensible state, and deluged in blood. Very luckily the principal arteries had escaped, otherwise her life would have been sacrificed. The doctor at once stitched up the wound, and she is going on as favourably as can be expected. Irvine has been taken into oustody, and meanwhile the authorities are investigating the affair.
Glasgow Courier. — 1845-03-08 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

THE REV. OR, WOLFF.  The following letterbas just been received by Captain Grover : Erseroom, Jan. 17, 184.5. My dear Grover,—Bow shall I thank you for your great, great kindness; but oonfeas that when you were gone to Bt. Petersburg I trembled; for I was afraid you would have gone to Bokhare with letters from the Emperor. God be praised that the st:seror did not grant you the letters, and that you did not pro.  As long u that horrid fellow Adb-00l Bamet Khan is at Balsam nothing will be of any use. Every Englishman's fate is sealed—he must die. The following persons have been murdered at Bokbara I. Lieut. Wyburd, of the Indian navy. 2. Lieut -Colonel Stoddart. 8. Captain Conolly. 4. One whom they call Freshaw. 8. A German. 6. Il Cavalier Nautili. 7. Five Englishmen outside Ichaar-Joo. 8. A Toorcoman, who came to Bokbara to attempt the escape of Colonel Btoddart. _ .  9. Ephraim, a Jew, from Meshed, who was sent to Bokhara to make inquiries about Capt. Conolly. 10. A Turkish officer. God be praised that you did not proceed to Bokbara. I made the whole journey from Bahasa to Meshed on horseback, with a rapture got at Eckhart, and without • bandage; also from Meshed to Tehran, other 600 miles, and from Tehran to Tabria 380 Wise. At Tabrie I was taken iii with &bilious fever, which detained me there 15 days. The Russian consul at Tabris made me • present • %name.° (litter), which conveyed me to A wajick (160 miles), Mt from this place to Erseroom, the mountains covered with filisin", and the horrid precipioes, prevent the passage of • tuck*wan, and I was obliged to travel 300 miles under continual ' and at night eaten up by lice sod fleas. At Hassan Handl _ Nis-suy joy at finding • totelersirun belonging to OW :mho Erserooro, which was sent on through the kindness of our good, benevolent, excellent, kind-hearted and dear Col. Williams, whose equal is scarcely to be found in this world. At nine miles from Erseroom Colonel Williams tame himself to meet me. I was in such • distressed Mate that IMU taken at onto to • Turkish bath, and was supplied with fresh clothing, and I was obliged to ON mercury five nays before I could get rid of the troublesome parasites, and was then so debilitated that I could not stand upon my legs. Thanks be to God for his loving kindness, in sending ma such friends as Colonel Williams and Mr. and Mrs. Redhouse, who have takes such tender care of me, that I am cow able to record to my friends in finglend the kindness of those exoellent friends. Mr. Brant, the oonsul, also comes every other day to see me; and Dr. Dixon is 'seemingly kind. God be praised I But there is not suoh a man in the British army as Colonel Williams; It was my Intention to have brought with me to England Moo.. lab Mobilise, the kind Jew of Meshed, but Colonel Williams and Colonel Fermat persuaded me to send him back to Meshed. Yours affectionately, Wotrr.
Glasgow Courier. — 1853-02-01 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

WIC.. meded Mn capturing one scoundrel in the oven of an old isatiterey me the outskirts of the town, w hose face was painted black, and who at tin St professed not to be able to understand the language addressed to him. A trial on this man was immediately held, the verdict of which sentenced him to be hung. While preparations were making to string him up lie made a rush through the door of the building in which he was secured, and effected his escape. The party of gentlemen started a„,oain in pursuit, taking the direction of the old bakery alluded to. Having searched its premises thoroughly, they were returning, when a band of mounted men, lumbering eight or ten, charged upoe them with a volley of firearms. They returned the fire and took safety in flight. None of the party were Met, although one gentleman felt the sting of a bullet on Ink cheek, so close did it graze his head. An exclamation of pain from one of the ruffians leads to the belief that Is was wounded in the leg. A general attack on Browe's Hotel, where the party took refuge, was feared, bet did not occur. The party of gentlemen were afterwards speculating upon the motives that could bane ieduceil this band of scoundrels to the adoption of these singular proceedings, when one of them observed that it might have been intended as a mere feint on the part of the twomen who wished the heart's blood or money of the "Upriver doctor,' in order to divert attention and ennlikt their companions to steal their homes.' An investigation of the facts proved that he was not mistaken in his conjectures; a horse belonging to Mr. Crow, who was stopping, at 1)1.. Covell's for the night, and another, the property of the stage line, were gime. The greatest excitement and consternation existed et Fremont in minsequence of these proceedings, and a large party of cite. mita armed themselves next morning with the ititerition, if possible, of capturing them prowling marauders. Messrs. Morrison and Stoddard, two gentlemen residing six miles front Comae, had from fifty to sixty head of cattle driven off from their premises during the last week, and it is presumed by the same band of mouedeals. A perusal of the 'lnterior Neon' will show that they have been operating elsewhere, and although opposed by a weaker party, met with a inlore military lemon of defeat in the perpetration of their villalies. Every one should be on the look out in town dud .country for these men ; the same hand which cuts a throat or steals a purse is capable of firing a city. Dr. Stoddard gives information that the trail of his mule has been followed for many miles in the direction of the coast rattge, when it gradually disappears. The impression is therefore entertained that an organised hand of robbers and murderers have taken up their abode in that direction among the mountains, who make frequent incursions into settled neighbourhoods for the purpose of theft and murder.—Sucramertio Union.
Glasgow Courier. — 1853-03-08 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

MURDER OF A MOTHER BY HER SON.  On Thursday last a dreadful murder was discovered to have been perpetrated on the person of Sarah Webster, a widow woman, 67 years of age, who, it appeared, had taken up her abode with her illegitimate son, John King, a farm labourer, of Soother." near Lincoln, since Sunday, the 21st ultimo. wfoetunate deceased was well known at Lincein,.*hpre she had resided during the last 20 years, the greater part of which period she has kept a house of ill-fame, where her daughters resided with her in a state of prostitution. She was married some time after the birth of the prisoner, and had several children by her husband, whose name was Webster. It appears the prisoner lies been subject to fits, and that he had one lately. He is a married man, end has a son 11 years of age, and n daughter 17. Ile has been ill a considerable period, but continued to go out to work up to Tuesday, the 15th oltitno, when he bad two Its in the field, and laid in the sliew while the fits continued. ills wife, who goes out to work, sent for her husband's masher to take care of him during her (the wife's) absence. The prieoner nits rambling all day on Sander, sod towards evening application was made to Mr. William Chambers, overseer of the poor of Scotherne, who went ti see the prisoner, and ordered a 'nen to sit up with him all night. The overseer then paid the man, and did not trouble himself any more about the matter, nor was Ile informed of any farther particulars until he heard of the murder. On Wednesday King struck his mother a blow on the stomach, as elle was giving him some tea, and from that time she appeared frightened of him. On Thursday she was left alone with him, his daughter, wife, anal neighbours having gone to a funeral in the village. The neighbour living nest door to King was returning home about four o'clock, when King appeared nt the window arid beekotEal to her. As she approached he put out his he.mie and said, Come on— I'm ready for you again.' On entering the house sho discoverei tie unfortunate romara welteriuo. in her blood. he wee in, a eh:lts-CO-her titaM Wesefhanging down on her urns; wub eating from the mouth and face. Tile neighbouA socn • a tie to the spot, and found the deceased quite dead. It is vupposed that King had beaten hie mother With his fist over the head and face; that she fell oil the edge of the chair, breaking her jaw Inane in the centre, as the blood had spirted through the spindles of the chair at the wall rear the window. King was hntnetlately conieyol to Lincoln Castle. The prisoneee right baud sa, covered with blood, and be appeared quit: insane. An inquest on view of the murdered wontan was hell when I, verdict of ' wilful murder' against King was eturned.—Lher.robulaire rinses.  THE IRIt PEEHAG is reported that Sir to be raised to the
Glasgow Courier. — 1853-03-15 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

BON. SIR WILLIEB MOLESWORTH, BERT ' Oxendon, Northampton, March 6, 1853. ' Sir—As I have long ago ceased to take any part in the affairs of Canada, and, notwithstanding numerous applications, have very carefully abstained from doing so in the present question of the clergy reserves, it is with regret and surprise I have just read in the Times of yesterday a report of your speech on that subject, in which, after accusing me of having obtained the overwhelming support I received from the loyal inhabitants of Upper Canada by an unscrupulous exercise of the influence of the government in the elections, you are pleased to say— ' " Sir Francis Head, who was then LieutenantGovernor of Upper Canada, boasted that he had added 40 supporters of the government to the House of Assembly, consisting of 62 members; yet even in this packed House of Assembly, dm.'  a faros  what  'Now, Sir, can the - of the United States think—what will the it ...oltants of the civilised world think—and may I not add, what will be the of our most gracious Sovereign?—when they an learn that the very Dr. Rolph above-mentioned, who subsequently succeeded hi forcibly collecting from the arsenals of the United States 22 pieces of artillery, which for a fortnight were fired upon her Majesty's loyal subjects, for whose apprehension as an outlawed rebel my executive council offered £l,OOO, and who, in conjunction with Mr. M'Kenzie, issued from Navy Island a counter "proclamation by the provisional government," offering £6OO for my apprehension (i.e., murder), was holding in Canada at the moment when as a cabinet minister you no unnecessarily and no unjustly assailed use the important and lucrative office of Commissioner of Clergy Reserves, and of the lands of that Crown whose honour and whose noble possessions in the Upper Province it was my hnmble endeavour to defend?  feelings  , trade—for . this school really is—that we have hitherto witanued. Doctrines the most dangerous, unchristian, and illegal, have been boldly put forward by the ministers of the Crown. They place their royal mistress, the head and protector of the churches, both of Scotland and England, in all her dominions, ender the yoke of the Canadian legis• lature, led, guided, and instigated by Hincks di Co. The Chancellor of the Exchequer propounded the most dangerous principles, when he stated that no imperial Interest was involved in the issue of the proceedings with regard to Canada ; nay, more, he stated, 'it was said that a question of public faith was involved (hear, hear, from the opposition). Was that an imperial interest?' Hear this ye fundholders,possensors of Church property, and in fact of property everywhere. Public faith ought to be an imperial interest everywhere in all the British dominions. Not so, says • minister of the Crown. Everything must be decided according to local power, clamour, and circumstances. Sir William klolesworth accordingly puts the whole case as dependent upon asserted numbers in any place or object. In his facts, however, he is wrong. Let us examine these by the papers which he referred to :  (
Glasgow Courier. — 1864-07-21 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

THE MURDERER.  t At length it seems probable that the police are on the ~,ra6c of the ruffian murderer of Mr Briggs. A German, ed Franz Muller, left in the house of a cabman, Matthews, a jeweller's box which bore Mr tiame. Matthews deposed as follows at Bow of er,—; ueurt :—I knew Franz Muller. He is a native 4 "Klegue. His age is 25, and for some time past he 143e,n'tion employed as a shirt cutter in the firm of thi„—re,,Rodgkinson, hosiers, of Threedneedle Street, in te i.ettY. Seven or eight months ago he commenced vh P company with my sister, and as her suitor he tn the habit of coming to my house. Matthews th:e,a very circumstantial account of the purchase of uat which Muller left in the railway carriage, and ~c°llsPletely established its identification. Muller called .."4 Matthews for the last time on Monday week, and ik„.—wdlis Wife during his visit. He took a box out of his IC-aet, and pulled out of it a gold chain, which he said th 'acl Paid £3 103 for that morning. He then fixed iiichain on a watch, and gave the box to my child to taY with. The box was produced, and identified by rar•beath, who was present, as the one which he had '..ka,ced the chain in. Muller then exhibited a ring l'i.; he had on his finger, and which was similar to described by Mr Death. Muller then began to 13WL:'Pta10, saying he had been unfortunate. He had dovni to the city, and a cart having passed near /Is foot he had sprained his ankle. He then said— ginaelri going to Canada. He had never been to the house The police have visited No. 16, Park Terrace, Pord, Bow, where Muller lodged. The officers in-I;_erni°Raanted a lodger in the house named Goodwin, a At , who said that on the night of the murder uller came home about eleven o'clock, and appeared 116,,rr, lunch composed, which he accounted for by saying 4"ad met with a severe injury in the city, and had :4ined his ankle. The lodger produced a pawn-ticket, rel:4_ll, he said, he had bought of Muller. The ticket b„„."°,_d to the gold chain Muller received from Mr 110'1, and which Muller had pledged in a pawn-shop in that night at nine o'clock. Mr Inspector Turner, 4beath, and the cabman started from Euston Square 414,1,1erP00l en route for New York by to-day's AmeraoC "'ail- The Inspector was furnished with a warlitai granted by Mr Henry, for the apprehension of veitbetr nn the charge of murder; and he also carried oe uiln letters from Mr Adams to the Executive Gopornent at New York. It has been ascertained by the fr ce that Muller sailed on Thursday afternoon last the o London Docks in the sailing vessel Victoria, 11,4141__ t New York. A photographic likeness of jeweiiir_ is in the hands of the police, and Mr Death, the who at once recognised it as a portrait of the man Nyeek.'d changed the chain at his shop on Monday ~„14neenstr, '"lnotir Wednesday.—There is no truth in the lieved Led arrest in Queenstown to-day of the man be. he the murderer of Mr Briggs.  •
Glasgow Courier. — 1862-12-18 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

FRAUDS AT QURBEC.—M. 0. Cremanzie has last four or five yes been kite-flying, throni assistance of certain !Ten dein en, who, it must I weed, had the grc.• ,+t confidence in his ini The mode of "raisin: the wind" was continue the arrival of its inev,:able collapse, and the M. Cremanne from the consequences of his indie The bubble having bur, the denouement ns+lowed, when it was discovered that a very I been made of the names of parties who had nev consulted in the matter—in plain terms, the sig to certain notes of hand that had been discoui4 were in the hands of merchants, brokers, bill-s and others, were declared to be forgeries. A I of the holders of the notes and other creditors s at Messrs. Panet & Hoot's office, when the forgot spid to be extant was stated at t4Mommtdonu. s, the principal part of which a , be in the hands of the delinquent's neighbei trausbeed, also, that in addition to this large I there were further liabilidea to the extent of 1 theorem% &win Fres" _saaldag a total of one 1 thousand &An% The Mist value of assets ws at fiw• thonsinA dellars—s melancholy set-off the large Il.—Queteeobrottiele. 4 *MOW !—Tise Court of Apt. origami emit at Baresions has lust given JAW,* in the case of a man named Mirapein, shad Mate since condemned to death for two mum trigesissla. The prisoner's counsel had appealed again c on the ground that his had actec. ,iniatence of monomania. The mie was conto the Academy of Sciences, and that • esz=hat the prisoner committed the g under a religious homicidal , • was not responsible for his actions. • of the public prosecutor it appears ' been long tormented with apprehensions 4 die in mortal sin, for want of , . the usual • , egbasomes before his death; but A robbery not less remarkable in its first having red - that mothentned criminals were always than for the boldness with which it was earrie duly prepared to die a. rbans, he resolved to secure related by the Vienna Gazette of the 9th instar to himself the same ebtantege. He accordingly pur- other night, when it was very dark, the condin chased a knife, and ibibed one of his friends at a goods train on the railway from St Petersburg coffee-house. He then took to flight; but fearing that saw suddenly saw before him a large fire. He the *round he had given might not prove fatal, here- the train, and found some logs of wood which I solved to commit another murder, and after having placed on the rails in flames. The railway realised his purpose on the prison of a young man whom having removed them the train resumed its con he met in the street, he delivered himself up to the on its arrival at the station the discovery wa police. The Court has now annulled the previous that two carnage. had been detached during a sentmme, aad ordered the primer to be =dud to aof stoppage. wirere found soon afterwards hit* megrim foe Ilk plelay oktippod ti theoaten%