Glasgow Courier. — 1845-07-29 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

SINGULAR CASE.-FATAL OCCURRENCE.  on Sunday morning, about half-past twelve o'clock, Mr. Wordie, a veterinary surgeon, residing in Maxwell Street, loot his life under circumstances which have excited In the city a very considerable sensation. It appears that Mr. Wordie and a friend, also a veterinary surgeon, had been at Part* professional duty, and that on their return to town, about deep' k, they went into a home in Sydney Court, occupied by n named M'Gllvray or Clark. There they had some whisky, In company with two females belonging to the house; and on the liquor being drunk, the females retired—one to attend to the business of the estabilahment in place of the landlady, who was intoxicated, and the other to meet, as she alleges, a person with whom shc had an appointment. The two friends were now left alone; and what follows in reference to the death of the deceased, resit entirely on the information of the individual by whom Wm.& was accompanied. He states that Wordie declared to him foolhardily his intention of going out at the window, on which he remonstrated with him against such an attempt, telling him that the window was two stories from the ground, and that he would inevitably be killed—that, notwithstanding of this warning, Wordie immediately, or at least very shortly afterwards, went to the window, threw it up, and dropped from it—that he ran to the window to keep him back, and got a slight hold of his wrist, but not firm enough to keep him from going down—and that be then fell into the court. This evidence is all that can be furnished as to the circumstances under which the unfortunate man came out of the window; and when found in the court below, his skull was dreadfully fractured, and he almost instantaneously breathed his last. The noise caused by the falling of the man appears to have immediately brought the people within the house, and some others out of doors, to the spot where he was lying, and his body was shortly after taken to the Police-office. Dr. Easton, surgeon of the establishment, wee sent for, and was in attendance with his usual promptitude; but beyond examining the state of the deceased's body it was of course too late to do anything professionally. The individual by whom Wordie was accompanied, on reaching. the office, gave to the Lieutenant on duty the information communiaated above as to the circumstances connected with his death. The unhappy affair, however, being one of such a nature as to call for inquiry, every person in the house at the time was taken into custody, These included some five or six females, and two men, one of whom is said to reside in the establishment, though he was not within when the occurrence took place. We cannot but regard it as somewhat singular, however, that the individual who was alone in the room withthe deceased w hen the fatal circumstance occurred, should be the only person left at liberty by the police, allthe others being retained in close custody up to Sunday night. Probably there may be good reasons for this distinction, and if they exist we trust that they will be explained. Throughout the whole of Sunday this melancholy affair excited a great sensation in the city. The rumour got abroad that a murder had been committed, and Sydney Court was from morning to night crowded with people anxious to obtain a sight of the house, and to learn the circumstances connected with the transaction. We have only further to state, that, according to the account given by his companion, Wordie, though a Wile Ofected with liquor, was quite able to conduct himself rationally; while the females in the house say that he was very drunk. These are all the particulars we have to communicate respecting this matter. Our impression is, that the deceased met his death somewhat in the manner above described; but the matter is not so free of difficulties as to preclude the necessity of a close and searching inquiry by the authorities into all the circumstances connected with it.—Arrit.