The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1861-08-13 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

SHOCKING MUSD,' AT GLASGOW. A murder was perpetrated on Sunday night at Glasgow. in the northwest part of the city. About eight o'clock Robert Pattison, aged 48, residing at 3, Caithness-street, Port Dundee, and who is an asaistant-inspector of poor in the city pansb, went to the Northern Police-office in a state of intoxication, bat for whit reason could not be ascertained, as he was either too drunk or too stubborn to state. Ho was locked up to wait till he became sober. Between 11 and 12 o'clock at night the fact that a barbarous murder had been committed .t 3 Caithness stmt. by a mall who bad cut his child's throat, was reported to the police, and soon Mr. Nelson arrived on the spot to make the necessary inquiries. He found the dead body of the infant lying in • bed in the single room which formed the dwelling-house as it afterwards transpired, of the prisoner, with the throat cut from ear to ear, the bead being almost severed from the body. Dr. Miller was also soon upon the spot, and had the body conveyed to the police-office. On inquiring as to who the suspected murderer was, Mr. Nelson heard the name' Pattison," and at once it flashed on his mind that his prisoner was the man "wanted." Accordingly he was examined at the police-office, and upon the shirtereut of the latter were found blood marks. A second visit was then paid to the house, and the police were successful in finding the instrument used in the commission of the horrible deed. A razor, both sides of which were clotted with blood. sres found partially hid in • mat on the bed, and near it was • towel, with which It appeared he had wiped his hands after washing them of the blood. The prisoner Pattison is a widower, his wife having died about three weeks ago, and •at least since then he has been drinking hard. He bad another child by his wife, between three and four years of age, and his wife having been previously married, brought with her two children at their marriage. One of these children was sent off to the poorhouse or some other place a week or two since, and the other stepchild seems not to have been well used. It wee locked out on Sunday morning by its stepfather, the prisoner. The deceased infant (Magdalen) was best liked by Pattison I of all the family, so on Sunday, about half-past three o'clock, it was left by Ilk& in charge of • neighbour, Mrs ' Henderson. He went out then, returning about halfpast 5 o'clock, and took the infant into the house with him. About seven o'clock the husband of the woman above mentioned went into the prisoner's house, and undressed and put the deceased to bed, the prisoner shortly after going in beside it and his other child, in • partially dressed state. Henderson soon after left them and no more was seen or heard of Million by his neighbours A little before eleven o'clock Mrs. Henderson, finding Pattison's step daughter—a child of 10 or 12 about the stairs, the husband went in with it to the prisoner's house, the door of which was unfastened. The apartments being dark, and Pattison not answering to his name • light as obtained, when • shocking sight prompted admit • in the corner of • the bed • child of three or four years of age was sitting crying, and on the pillow lay the dead body of the child, with its throat cut as already described. The little child, when questioned by Mr. Nelson, spoke very clearly to the fact that she had asen her father with a' knife, cutting *mein In the bed." The man, when spoken to alsont the dreadful deed he bad committed, showed, or pretended to show, ignorance of the whole matter.