The Potteries Examiner : — 1871-08-12 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

AND SUICIDE. We have to reoord the occurrence of a tragedy in the West-end of Glasgow, of • nature alike me/an°holy and dreadful. At about eight unlock on Thuraday night Ur. Jas. Nimmo, residing at I, Shafteebary-terrace, millboard manufacturer, and formerly wholesale newsagent and bookseller, St. Enoch-square, deprived three of hie children of life, and afterwards committed suicide. Mrs. Niortno bad gene not to tea in the course of the evening, leaviug in the house Mr. Nimmo, his font children, named Blair, seven years of age, Christine, 5, James, 3, and Harry, 20 months, a boy named Posta, a son of Mrs. Nimmo by her former husband, and two servant girls. The three youngeat of the ohildren had been put to bed, and left in oharge of Mr. Nimmo by the nurse. Shortly before eight o'clock one of the servant girls, named Mar. garet hlatheson, hearing moans proceeding from the room in which the child named Harry wag sleeping, entered it, and saw Mr. Nimmo bending over the crib. On seeing the girl, Mr. Nmumo, by way of explaining the noise which bad attracted her to the room, said, " Ito all right, Maggie; he has just gone over again." The girl scoordingly retired, but when proceeding along the lobby she heard minds of meaning in the room cc. copied as the sleeping aputment of the other children. Her solicitude for their welfare induced her also to enter this room to learn the cause of the apparent distress, and a momentary glance at the children served to show that something was wrong. In alarm ehe hastened back to the room in which she had left her maeter with little Harty, but Mr. Nimmo had gone and the child woe dead. Next, she ran to , her meeter's bedroom, but, finding the door shut, did I not venture to go in. But, immediately returning, ohs ruthed out of doors and raised an alarm. Assistanee , was speedily obtained, and Mr. Nimmo's bedroom at once entered, but the unfortunate man woe found dead. The medical attendant of the family, Dr. Stewart, wee summoned, and along with Drs. Thomson, Stark, Pirie,andJohneton (district surgeon), examined the bodies, reporting their opinion that the three children—Christine, James, and Hurry—au well as Mr. Nimmo himself had been poisoned by prussic staid. Subsequently it transpired that Mr. Nkomo had attempted to include his eldest boy, Blair, among his victims. He had offered the boy a glaze of wine, which has been einec round to contain a mixture of proesio acid, but the boy was unwilling to drink the liquor, and only tasted it. Poe some time afterwards he remained slightly ill, bat he gniekly recovered, and is now completely mat of danger. 'the only explanation which can be furniehed of the enactment of this lamentable tragedy is diecovered in a letter to Mrs. Nimmo found in her husband'. room. The letter I. dated Craiginerloch Works, Kileyth, Sunday, 1871," and is addressed to "My dearest Susie." He tells her that a constant and ever.increasing desire for his ohildren to reach heaven, together with grave doubt, as to their being able to avoid the many temptations of this world, had led him to leave his wife with Patle and Davis, her eons by a former marriage. He prays that the great God may again unite them, and testifies that his wife had been true and faithful to him during the eight years of their married life. He details the pecuniary arrange. manta he hoe made for her provision, invokes God'. b!wiainv an all who may treat her and the two eons kindly, enjoins the boys to be dutifnl and affectionate in the future, as they had been in the pant; and en. plains that while he would have wished to have taken them all with him, not having given them life he had no right to deprive them of it. In two posteoripte he renews profeeeions of his affection for his wife, and on the haok of an envelope, evidently need after the poison had been taken, he has written the announcement that he and the children were now in the other world.