Glasgow Courier. — 1854-03-18 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

HATTO, THE MURDERER.  It has already been announced that Hutto has made a full confession of hi* guilt. Ilatto says that some short time previous to the Ist of November, the date of the murder, Mery Ann Sturgeon, the murdered woman,asked him to lend her • sovereign. This he at first refused to do, and angry words passed between them. After consideration, however, he told her she might have the sovereign, or two or three if she liked, and they were again good friends. On Tuesday, the Ist of November, he was employed almost the whole of the day in the house cleaning the plate and other things, and had much conversation with the dec,ased, and when night arrived they were far front being on friendly terms. In the evening Storgeon went to Bunce's cottage, and when she had been gone sonic time Hatt° says he took off his shoes, that he might not be heard, and proceeded to the door of the cottage, when he listened and overheard the conversation let wren deceased and Mrs. Bunce. That conversation vesed him very much, and he returned to the kitchen of the farm house, jumping over the wall, in order that he might make no noise by the opening and shutting of the gates. Soon after he arrived back the deceased, he says, came into the kitchen, put him out his supper, and, insteed of the customary pint of beer, served him with only half • pint. Ile complained of the short allowance, and • quarrel ensued, in the course of which, he says, Sturgeon twitted him very much. Ile then nays the devil came to him, and he struck deceased • violent blow across the noise find mouth with the larding into. After the hlow' he says, • scuffle took place between them; the deceased struggled herd, got uppermost, and he thought at one time she *mild have mastered him. She ultimately got away from him, and ran upstairs to her bed-room, followed by hire, lie says she fell on her face just in the position in which she was found, and he added, 'I then took up the poker and smashed her brains out.' With respect to the burning of the body he is silent; he says that the clothes of the deceased must hare caught fire. On going down stairs he found he was covered with blood. He then changed everything he had on. He cut up his boots (high shoes) with his master's razors, completely severing the upper leather from the soles. He then went into the paddock where the colts were kept, and threw the soles of the shoes into • pool of water about live feet deep, called the welt; the upper le alters he stuffed into • drain which empties itself into the well. The feet part of his stockings, being very bloody, he mit •way from the leggings, and deposited them under the coping of the immense wall which formerly enclosed • portion of the Burnham ALbey lands. The leggings he placed in the manger in the stable. The shirt and trousers he secreted in the orchard on the Tuesday night. On the night of Thursday, when he took his master's horse out of the stable tinder the pretence of going to the Maidenhead Railway Station for • parcel, he carried the shirt and trousers with him, for the purpose of getting rid of them. The trousers, all but the waistband, he cut into smell shreds, and strewed them on the hedges and Ity the side of the road ae he went along. When he arrived at the top of the Maidenhead Bridge he threw the stocking legging. over Int., the Thames, and was about to throw the shirt after then, a hen the thought struck him that it would swim, so he bronght it back apin, and buried it beneath the manger of the centre stall of his master's stable. Some of these fragmeii ts hare been found, but other. the  police could not discover. A few gentlemen connecter! with the county of Bucks subeeribed a handmme stun towards the legal expenses of the defence. It is understood that Lord Carrington and Baron Rothschild subscribed ten guineas each, and that the fund was augmented by a donation from the Society for the Prevention of Capital Punishment.  DEPARTURE or 4TH