Glasgow Courier. — 1844-12-05 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

THE LATE MURDER AT CALMS.  Sr. Omen, Noy. 28.—The business was opened by the President reading the act of accusation, which charged Salllor with having willfully committed homicide by inflicting a mortal wound with a dagger on Mr. Thorn. The names of the witnesses were then called over by the Clerk of the Court, and the President ordered that they should be conducted out of Court, taking care that the witnesses for the prosecution should be placed in one room, and those of the prisoner in another. There were fifteen of the former and six of the latter. They were then called in separately, but the material facts were , deposed to by five, viz., the trumpeter and two privates of the National Guards, and a commissioner of the Hotel Royal. From the testimony of 11. V. Bretson, the trumpeter, it appeared that he and some others of the National Guard, then on duty, had observed Sather and Thorn walking arm in arm across the place, and enter the office of Saltier at the Town Hall, about one o'clock in the morning, Senior apparently being in a completely drunken state, and Thorn evidently affected by liquor. That from time to time himself and comrades watched them, as they supposed, playing and amusing themselves together. That some time afterlie returned and perceived Saltier and Thorn face to face, and that at that moment he saw Thorn fall backwards upon which he ran back and called for assistance; two comrade; came, and on their reaching the body they saw Sallie?, as if coming out of his office and locklug the door. The witness was asked what timo was occupied between going for assistance and returning MI the spot? To , this be could not answer, but explained that he supposed he made 'boot twenty-four steps there and back, and had run all the way. On raising the body he heard a noise from the deceased, but whether as an attempt to speak, or from the effect of suffocation, he knew not. They then tried to untie his neckcloth, when they found blood on the left breast of his shirt, and perceived a wound In the breast. Senior then came up, and exclaimed, " Quel Peal, helm," (What a calamity!) and shortly afterwards asked whether it was a Frenchman or an Englishman, and then desired that Dr. Boulanger should be sent for; that the body was then carried Into H. Sallior's outer office, and was placed upon the table; that some time after M. Saltier entered his inner office, and, oa coming out, rested his two elbows on the body of Thorn, and said, "My poor friend, with whom I spent the evening.* Every endeavour was made to find some instrument with which the blow had been struck, but in vain. The Commissary of Police, M. le Blond, deposed that he had searched the pockets of H. Sallior and the deceased, but could find no instrument • but that ultimately he went into M. Sallior's inner office, and foun the dagger produced standing with the blade upwards against some papers on the desk. There were streaktof blood on it. He also saw a penknife on the floor, and the papers strewed about in much confusion; that Saltier fell asleep on a chair, and seemed quite unconscious of all that was going on. M. Mcerdeposed, that about • quarter-past one o'clock he had gamete fd:Sallicir's office to obtain a permit of embarkation for a pessenger, and that, on his producing the passport of the traveller, M. Saltier remarked that it was thrcelmonths out of date, which, having explained, he received a permit, but so illegible that it could not be read. M. Sather was very drunk, and Mr. Thorn stood in the office during the whole time, having M. Sallior's cloak on his arm. That Saltier asked Thorn if he wanted a permit, and repeatedly and angrily told him to leave his office. Drs. Boulanger and Banprd had made a post-mortem examination of the body, and deposed to the nature of the wound, show