Glasgow Courier. — 1848-09-12 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

GLASGOW.  Attempted Suicide.—On Sunday night, between the hours of eight and nine o'clock, a carter, of the name of Archibald White, attempted to commit suicide by throwing himself from the upper steam-boat wharf, north side of the Brownielaw. His struggles in the water were fortunately heard by a seaman of the name of Kelly, on board the steam-ship Lyra, who, with praiseworthy conduct, instantly leapt from the quay, and succeeded in dragging him on shore. The man, who was in rrirtat.e et intoxication, states  that he was driven to asaatnit this rash act in cot/sequence of the bad conduct of his wife.  Accident at Rothsay.—An accident, which it is feared will  prove fatal, occurred at Rothsay on Saturday last to a young man in the employment of a slater from Glasgow. From information it appeared that he along with his master had been engaged measuring the front of a house in the East Bay, on which they had been been making some repairs, the young man being at tho time on a ladder. While endeavouring, however, to go on to another part of the building, he unfortunately missed his footing, and was . . . _ .  precipitated .to the ground, a-height of about two stories. Drs. M'Lachlan and M'Ewan were immediately in attendance. The young man has received serious injury about the head.  Poeket-Picking.—On Wednesday afternoon, while a young lady from the country was preparing to pay for her ticket by the five o'clock train at the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, Queen Street, she was jostled against by some one near her, and her pocket picked of a purse containing £4 in bank notes, and a deposit receipt with the Commercial Bank of Scotland for the sum of £240. That the robbery had been effected within the terminus, was evident from the circumstance that the purse, emptied of its contents, was afterwards found there, lying on the ground. The police were apprised of the theft the same evening, as also the Commercial Bank here—precautions which led to the ,speedy apprehension of the offender, or an accomplice, as on Thursday forenoon a fashionably-dressed young female presented the stolen receipt at the Commercial Bank, and was in dee act, we believe, of appending to it the name of the lady what had been robbed, when her agitation was ,observed by the manager of the bank; and she was at once detained, and is now in custody. The female, who has but recently come from Irtiand, gives her name as Ana Hasty or Kenny.  Thief Caught.—At Anderstan Police Court on Saturday, a man of the name of Edward noddles was charged before Bailie I). Smith with having been tweed within the premises of a gentleman, situated in St. Vincent Street, on the evenI jug of Friday last, under suspicious eireamstances, and with being a rogue and a vagabond. From the evidence adduced in Court, it appeared that on the matting in question the gentleman of the house, who was seated at one of his windows, observed the prisoner come over a back wall and approach the house. The gentleman immediately threw up his window, and at the same time ran for the back wall. The prisoner also wishing to escape attempted again to scale the walls, but finding that he could not do so, wrenched off the door of a dungstead, and was in the act of jumping out, when he was seized. The cane having been proved against him, he was sentenced to sixty days' imprisonment. We understand that not long ago a quantity of silver plate was stolen from the same house.  MR.