Glasgow Courier. — 1847-12-11 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

JAMES MACKIE TURNBULL & CO., tea-merchants, a company, and of JAMES MACKIE nit:vim:Lt., the of said company, and as an individual. Creditors n chambers of Messrs. Strathern & Douglas, writer,, Street, there, on 21st Dec. and 11th Tan., at 12 noon.  MURDER OF FOUR CHILDREN BY THEIR AND SUICIDE OF THE MURDERESS (From the Bath Chronicle of Thursday.)  Yesterday afternoon the inhabitants of this city were ' by the news of a tragedy such as was never before ki.or taken place within its precincts—the murder of four their mother having cut their throats with a razor, an : of her own life by the same means. The woman who these crimes was the wife of a jobbing brewer, na who, at the time of the occurrence, was absent r, having been employed since Monday, in brewing Steak Tavern. The facts, so far as we have yet i ascertain them, are these. The cottage in which the is situated in a garden not far from that part of tb. which the Bradford boats start, but on the oppo-: the way to it so intricate, and the situation CO lon, few of the inhabitants of Bath, perhaps, have r, the spot; and, but for this horrid occurrence, s!ali and retired recess would have remained unnoticed the occupants of some of the straggling houses in This cottage has but one floor, which is divided int, ments, the one a kitchen or sitting-room, and the ot!1 r big chamber. A poor woman, named Seers, lives in allot' tage not far from it, and was in the habit of seeing a:. ' a neighbourly conversation with Mrs. Ridout. In ti it struer her as rerharkable that she bad seen tmt: for the day. Wanting some water, Mrs. Seers pump on the premises, and while there she thougl.: call and enquire how her neighbour was; but ea open the door she found it locked. Mrs. Seers was tiac. to look in at .the window, when the horrid spectacle pr to her eyes was the wretched woman lying on the steeped in her blood. She immediately called the another neighbour, a labourer, to the shocking mediately gave information of what bail been witne: .1 police office, and instantly afterwards Captain Carroll de an inspector and another officer to the place, when 0 of the cottage was forced open, and a scene was exhibited at which the beholders shuddered with horror. Passiag body of the woman, whom they found with her throat cut an.l by her side, the next object which met their eyes, just withii joining room, were the lifeless bodies of four childta aw in blood which had flowed from the fatal wounds hit!icted . throats. One of the murdered innocents is an infant at months old, and the eldest of the four is about six yen: . and dumb. A large tub was standing in the room aim, blood and water, and the circumstances suggest the pr that the wretched mother had,. On making the necks of her unhappy offspting, held their heads tub as a receptacle of the vital current as it flowed wounds. One of the little victims was found with his hanging over the step leading to the bedroom. : struggled and made an ineffectual effort to get as::. petration of the tragic deeds is supposed to have b: of insanity, as it is stated that the woman had bc, symptoms of unsoundness of mind for some time pa-