Glasgow Courier. — 1854-11-30 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

DARING AND FATAL ASSAULT.  Our last impression contained a few distressing details of the murder of • man in Glasgow by some anknown hand, and who, after the mortal attack, was taken to the Royal Infirmary, where, at a considerable time after his death, his disconsolate wife first learned his melancholy fate,•nd we are this week horrified by • somewhat similar murder, for it can be called nothing else, in the village of Govan, near Glasgow. It appears that on the evening of Saturday last, a young man named Smith, a ship carpenter, who had returned to the village some days previously, after a long voyage, called on a number of his old acqnaintances in Main Street, east end of the village. Amongst others, ha called at the house of a person named M'llonald, a carpenter, in Main Street, where he had some conversation shout a young woman of whom he bad become enamoured, and who resides on the opposite side of the street. Smith said be wail determined to marry the girl immediately, and hoeing deposited a suns of money in the hands of Mrs. M'Donald, as he said, to pay ' the cries,' on Monday morning he left the house, saying he was going across the street to ask the consent of the girl's father. At the time Smith got to the street, three Irishmen soda woman were there engaged In some altercation, end in passing Smith, who mu. little 'hearty,' made some remark, upon which one of the men, uttering an oath, said, ' Who could stand that?' and immediately levelled • blow at Smith and knocked him to the ground. It is believed that the other men then joined In the assault upon Smith; but at all events one of them was heard to cry, 'Ran you b—s, I've straightened him now,' and the four persons acre observed to run in different directions. One of them wee caught by James Barr, an ecquaintanee of Smith's, who followed him on hearing the noise, but not knowing the serious neture of the attack on Smith, and thinking that he recognised the man as a workman in the employment of  Nfessra. Smith & Rodger, iron ehip-buil-_.s. Govan, he allowed him to escape. Smith wan then found lying insenaible in a pool of blood, nod upon etenlining him it was fond that his forehead and scalp were laid open, his bmins protruding from the wound, and four of his teeth were knocked out, lie was immediately removed to Barr's house, where every medical and surgical at ention vont paid to him, but he lingered on in intense agony until about ten o'clock on the evening of Wednesday, when death put an end to his aufferings. It on. very dark at the time Smith was assaulted, and there being as yet nor lampior police in that locality, it is feared that no person will be able to identify the perpetrators of that daring outrage. It is, however, sincerely hoped that same clue will yet he found to the murderer, no as to bring him to Justice. Month is univer• sally spoken of aa a quiet, well-doing lad, the best proof of which Is that at the termination of his apprenticeship, some years ago, he had saved £7O from his npprenticewage., and eines then he has saved a large sun, to provide for en old age he was never destined to see.—Re, forweri Gazette.