The Sun. — 1858-04-07 (London, England)

THE TRAGEDY AT LERWICK.  This shocking tragedy is as yet unexplained. No mot.ve can be discovered. Mr. Williamson, the murderer and suicide, was a respectable merchant; he appeared to have a warm affection for his family, and his affairs do not show any embarrassment. Some of the local papers peblish farther details :—His first victim was his wife. He had apparentiy struck her a fsariul blow with the cleaver on the bead ; with the razor he inflicted a frightful cut upon her throat. He went through the same horrifying process in the case of the daughter, as she still lay asleep. He next rushed upstairs to the apartment occupied by the three childrer. The elder boy was seized, numerous and serious cuts were inflicted upon his bead either with the hatchet edge of the cleaver, or with the razor blade, and with the latter instrument a fearful wound was made upon his throat ; but before the consummation of his intended fate he managed to release himself from his father's hands and made his escape downstairs. Upon the youngest of the three—the sleeping infant—the same elaborate attack was made asin the case of the fret two and stronger victims. With its bead smashed, and almost severed as it was from the body, its death must have been instantaneous. The terminating scene of the sickening tragedy was carried out in the other room on the Flrlie floor on which these transactions took place. To this room the second sou, Jol:D, had made his escape in his regbt-dress. He could scarcely, however, have done more than reach the apartment when hie father, following in hot pursuit, overtook him, and seizing him as he vainly attempted to elude his hold by leaping into an unoccupied bed, dragged him out by his superior strength, one or more stunning blows on the skull soon served to make him resistless, and by a deep raz tr cut in the throat he was the next instant deprived of life as speedily as the innocents who preceded him. Dropping the mutilated corpse at his feet, the infatuated man next addressed himself to the deliberate destruction of his own life. Throwing himself on his back on the middle of the floor of the same room in which he stood, be placed his neck against the leg of the table, thus preventing any (mance of the wound losing partial, enertd. drawing towards him a chair which stood in '4' rtq went, he passed his arm round one of its lowe_r11:171° thereby insuring equal steadiness of the bw d ° Ins enabled to neck. By this finesse of arrangement carry out his horrible design with la:alohicleoe:tvaign'd With u such strength did he, thus assilt_ed.peen ‘; from ear to ear, his throat that the neck was laid etrated to the very bone. and the blade of the razir pen,..nt_a ghastly spectacle, He must have died in an a. :imbrued in his own and his with his hands and garreeensaf, big murdered wife's hair victims' blood, and and and the instruments of death still clinging tePLe five victims of his demoniacal fury by his Bide. Pr Ileie eldest boy—has been carefully the .on.ly.gurrli„ survivor tended and, by the aid of the surgeon, InctB hds are sl I ne. He is not yet. 0 wean • ow y ea,l his danger" ger, and it is doubtful if however, altogether out of dal, hyrill ever mutfieiently recover his natural btreilgth. The be lies of the others, with that of the deceased himself, were not interred until Tuesday, and a more mourns ful cortege was never seen in the streets cf Lerwick.  S PAPER  THE LOSS OF_