Glasgow Courier. — 1855-08-25 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

MURDER, AND APPREHENSION OF THE MURDERER.  As related in our last a savage, and apparently premeditated, murder was perpetrated in this city on the night of Weilnes lay las'. For the last four or five days large crowds of idle persons have assembled in Buchan Street, Corbels, to gaze on a tenement in which it was said a ghost had been seen, and these numbers had latterly been largely increased, especially after work hours, by reason of some ridiculous stories on the subject which appeared in the newspapers. A crowd assembled on Wednesday night as usual, and shortly after nine o'clock a band of disorderly lads in the crowd began to amuse themselves by maliciously stretching a rope across the street, laughing heartily at those who stumbled over it in passing. Among others who thus stumbled was a young man of 21 years of age, named Bernard Nt'Aulay, a miner, residing in Main Street, Gorbals. He resented the trick played off upon bins by knocking down the pereon who appeare 1 to him to be one of the principal ag,gressers, and who has since been ascertained to be a young man named James Moore, a carter, but who formerly worked as a journeyman fleshier. This person, finding himself worsted, slunk off to Bridgegate, and, having gathered some accomplices, set out to wreak vengeance on M'Aulay. They encountered bins on Hutchesontown Bridge, and threw stones at bins; and when M'Aulay ease they were bent on assaulting him, be put himself on the defensive, and a scuffle ensued, in which M'Aulay was stabbed with a knife or other sharp instrument in the left breast, about an inch below the nipple. He immediately fell, and his assailants made their escape. He was at once conveyed to the shop of Dr. Pearson in Adelphi Street, where he was found to lie dying, and breathed his last almost immediately afterwards, giving utterance to an expression to the effect that it was Fleshier who did it. Indeed, the moment the wound was inflicted M'Auley was heard to say, 'Fleshier you have done it.' Ile did not live more than seven minutes after the infliction of the wound. The knife must not only have been very sharp, but driven with great force. It perforated a thick jacket as well as vest and shirt, and actually sliced off a portion of the rib. Immediately upon the murder being reported at the Police Office, Captain Smart assembled all the members of the detective force, and sent them to scour the city in all directions. The thread of information upon which they could depend regarding the identity of the assailant was of the very slightest description, but they followed out the case with so cinch ability and ingenuity that they had in custody, within an hour or two, two lads named James Clark and Henry Carson, the latter a tobacco-pipe maker, who were present and engaged is the disturbance vs lien the murder was per petrated. Having ascertained that the blow had been actually struck by the man James Moore, already alluded to, a most anxious search for bins wasset on foot. It was found out that lie usually resided in his father's house, No. 9, Galhowgate, but on the detective officers proceeding thither they learned that he had not been at home all night. Detective officers John Phillips and Daniel M'Farlane, however, by a very able and inv.:onions effort, surceeded in tracing Moore to the dwelling of an acquaintance in Deacon Lane, off Main Street, Calton, where he Was apprehended between five and six o'clock on Thursday morning, while sitting with the inmates of the house. Ile is a slender young man, about 22 years of age. Ile states, we believe, that he struck the deceased with a sharp stone, but denies that he used a knife. Persons base been found, however, who speak distinctly to Moore hissing stabbed al'Aulay with a knife; and one of them e ho seas in company with the prisoner late in the evening having, upbraided him with haring used a knife, Moore replied that he had only given the man a slight touch with it, and he marked off upon his finger the length which he supposed the instrument had penetrated. Ile was also heard, We believe, to threaten during the scuffle that he would put a knife into any one who meddled with bins.' It is understood that Moore was not struck by M'Aulay on else occasion of the second scuffle.