Glasgow Courier. — 1845-05-24 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

GLASGOW.  The Treasurer of the Night Asylum for the Houseless has received £2 lls. from Mr. James Henry, being balance, after defraying expenses, of the soiree given in the Assembly Rooms in honour of Mr. George Roy, on the 17th ult, Lktbe Police Court on Wednesday, No. 121, city porter, was fined bs. for refusing to act in that capacity to Messrs. M'Tear & Keropt, auctioneers, he being at the time noengaged. Suicide—On Sunday morning last, a man of colour, a seaman belonging to one of the vessels at the Broomielaw, drowned himself, about five o'clock in the morning, while labouring under the effects of drink sad a quarrel with his wife. Every effort was made to save the life of the drowning man, but, unfortunately, without success, and he was taken out a corpse. Case of Fraud or Theft.—On Monday afternoon, about half-past three o'clock, a servant, from St. George's Road, accompanied by a neighbouring servant, entered an eatinghouse in Wellington Arcade for the purpose of ordering some tripe to be sent to her master's house. When in the shop she accidentally left three one-pound notes of the British Linen Co. Bank on the couoter. After leaving and discovering her loss, the girl returned, and inquired if the eating-house keeper knew anything about it. The tripeseller denied all knowledge of the money, and gave the servant a good deal of abuse, hinting at the same time, that very probably her neighbour, who was along with her, had picked it up. The girl not being satisfied with the explanations siven about the money, and being convinced that she lost It in the shop, applied to the police, who at once took the eating-house keeper into custody. On searching her, they found the three missing notes concealed about her person, and she was committed for trial on a charge of theft. Theonatter was investigated yesterday in the Police Quin, when the Magistrate decided that the notes found upon the eating-house keeper were lost by the young woman, and ordered them to be restored to her, but that the charge of theft was not proven. Housebreaking, and CaVure of the Thief—About three o'clock on Thursday morning, Mr. Harvey, jun., son of Mr. Alexander Harvey, dyer, residing in Wellington Place, Hutchesontown, beard some one entering his bed-room in a stealthy manner, and getting up to see who it was, he immediately found that there was a midnight depredator in the house. Mr. Harvey's rising having alarmed the thief, be tried to escape by leaping out of a window seventeen feet from the ground, but he was so much injured by the fall that he was unable to leave the place. He was consequently taken into custody, and conveyed to the Gorbals Police Office, where it was discovered that he was an old offender, named John Gibson. On examining , Mr. Harvey's premises, it was ascertained that Gibson had entered, probably with the assistance of some accomplices, by the parlour window, and that after collecting a number of articles in that apartment, for removal, he was about to , examine the adjoining bed-room, when he was discovered, , and took to flight. Another attempt was made to break , into Mr. Harvey's house on Monday night, it is supposed, , by the same party.—[We understand that the delinquent • Gibson was yesterday identified as the person who corn' seitted the daring rubbery, on Saturday evening last, in , Abbotsford Place, an account of which appeared in the  Courie of Thursday.]