Glasgow Courier. — 1853-09-22 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE.  On Monday evening a dreadful occurrence tools place in a house of ill fame in French Street, here. A gentleman attempted the life of a girl living in No. 27, in the above street, and immediately after committed suicide. It 9pears that shortly before four o'clock, some boys, playing near the house, which is kept by a person calling herself 'Fanny Stuart,' were startled by the sharp report of a pistol -shot, immediately succeeded by the screams of a female, and, in a few minutes after, by a second shot. They gave the niacin to a constable on the heat, who immediately proceeded to the house, and having been admitted, was told that both shots had been fired by a gentleman who was then in the two-pair back bed-room. The constable went up stairs, and, on entering the room, was horrified at seeing the body of a man stretched at full length on the floor, and bleeding sightly from a bullet wound in the left breast. Although five minutes had scarcely elapsed from the time the second shot was heard until the arrival of the policeman, life was quite extinct. The girl, Emma Fawcett, a native of England, whom the unfortunate deceased bad attempted to destroy before terminating his existence, was found lying On a sofa in the drawing-room bleeding front several wounds inflicted by small shot, scattered over the right aidvl,of her person, from the temple to the knee; the light mo., ing dress which she wore was all stained with blood None of the wounds were likely to prove dangerous. As soon as she had recovered consciousness she made a statement which, if correct, shows her escape from death to have been almost miraculous. She states that she left deceased sitting in the bed-room (the same in whiat his body was found) to go down to the drawing-room, and had been absent but a short time when she heard him calling her on the stairs. She went out and saw him on the landing beside the lobby window looking towards the drawing-room door. She was going up to him, and had ascended some three or four steps, when he stepped forward with a pistol in his right hand and fired at her; the charge, which appears to have been of small shot,striking her in a slanting direction downwards. She immediately turned and rushed back into the drawing-room, exclaiming 'Oh, I am shot :. and then became um oascions. The proprietress of the establishment, 'Fanny Stuart,' gave the inspector the following account of the deceased :—He came to her house late On the night of the 30th of August, the day after the arrival of the Queen; he was shabbily dressed, and seemed to have been some gi travelled , gi ca hg, e i in 5, not, Dogoadiwsust },h, under,n:i eantd; ei l erep apparel, description; aoHvcteneaaa. TecaLl on i complexion; 1 ni life Webster, eat deceased eteghphbrmpei 1 epsnodei oestf.rof, etoaeioftho Liverpool.' : time under the rain during the night; he asked for something to eat, and went down to the kitchen, where he saw a gentleman sitting at the fire, to Whom he said, '1 suppose you are on the spree to-night; if you want money I can give you some, as I have 100 sovereigns: Miss Stuart did not think this statement was correct, as she only saw eight or nine sovereigns in his puree when he drew it oat; lie attached himself to Emma Fawcett, and remained until five o'clock in the morning, when he went out, but returned in about five or ten minutes, and said he would not go, as be thought he was late for the train; he lived with the same girl ever since, seldom going out at first, and latterly not at all, and whenever he did it was in a covered car; on the 31st August lie went to the King's Bridge Terininus for sothe portmanteaus he had left there, and in two or three days after lie brought in more luggage, including a large trunk, which lie never opened in the house, and which is still corded, and so great is its weight that two men can scarcely carry it; lie appeared to have a considerable sum of money—all in gold—which he spent in the most lavish manner, purchasing for the females in the house, and particularly for Emma Fawcett, various and costly articles of dress; notwithstanding his great extravaganca, he has left after him a bag filled with sovereigns, which was found in a closet off his bed-room by the police; he was frequently questioned auto where became from,and who he was, but his replies were often evasive, always unsatisfactory and contradictory; the night of his arrival, he said he was a veterinary surgeon, attached to the Queen's establishment, and subsequently stated that lie had been some time in Australia; the name he gave railway. wits ta:s:euphi:;alpassenger ettlin irAsyseo, middleegi hltsaneesgtikepafegbinzlieface considerabletl labels, and ir apwrispsteeWadr se. Webster, os t e,hishaver, lwu iigsnntsieoeveanwel: ~rei togetheritausayl hi slightly wdpwi , with Dublin.' Rs.. o quantity e lnyhsaT,i no quantity ri rga:, dedeen, rdowybfP :nowb, slud, ei:eLtoceisap.doofi wearing predinfaToni dissipation; he might be about thirty-five years of age, but looked somewhat older, from having lost some of his teeth, and wearing a wig; for it is worthy of remark that his hair, which is dark brown, is slightly grown, having been recently shaved, which he accounted for to Miss Favroott by stating thals it bad been dune In hospital, where he was treated for an attack of glanders, which he took from contact with a diseased horse. A miniature of himself, enclosed in a handsome morocco leather case, which he presented to the girl Fawcett, is a faithful likeness.—Dublin Freeman.