The Sun. — 1861-10-14 (London, England)

THE ALLEGED NURDER AT S3IRLING  SINGULAR PROCEEDINGS.  The Scotsman says :—" It was stated last week that a woman named Jane Peters had died suddenly early on the morning of Wednesday, the 2d inst., under suspicious circumstances, in consequence of which a woman named Christina Peters, a sister of the deceased, and a man named Andrew Johnston, who lived with the latter, had been apprehended and lodged in Stirling prison. It appears on investigation by the authorities, that there had not been evidence sufficient to warrant them in taking criminal proceedings against either of the parties, and they were accordingly liberated from prison on Wednesday evening. A strong feeling prevailed against the female prisoner in consequence of her name having been associated with the proceedings in connection with the Bathgate murder some years ago. On liberation from prison, Christina Peters and Johnston proceeded to the house which they previously occupied at a part of the Castle-hill leading to Ballangeich--a wretched hovel of small dimensions, an consisting apparently of only one room and a small closet. On arriving at their old quarters, between eight and nine o'clock, the woman Peters was speedily recognised, and a number of persons soon collected, who proceeded to eject them summarily from the domicile. The crowd rapidly increased, and Johnston ran seeking protection to the doors of the prison, where he could not, of course, be admitted, but made his escape elsewhere. In the meantime, the woman Peters was pursued by some hundreds of persons; but by doubling and running actively she escaped through a close, and found refuge in the Burgh Police-office. Here a crowd assembled ; but after a brief interval the greater portion proceeded to her house in the Castle-hill,where demolition of the building was commenced by the mob, and by one o'clock on Thursday morning it had been all but levelled with the ground. In the forenoon of Thursday a number of boys completed the work of destruction. The woman Peters remained for protection in the police-office all night."  THE SUICIDE A 7 TIIF, 87EPNEY dIL IVA Y 'STAMM'.  On Saturday a great many persons waited upon Mr. Pemble, the beadle of Rateliff, for the purpose of identifying the body of a foreigner, who commitled suicide on Friday evening, by flinging himself in front of the" Tilbury and Southend express train, which left the Fenchurch-street station at half-past 4 o'clock. The deceased had been on the platform for 5 or 6 minutes before the train approached, and directly it reached the station he raised his arms, put himself in the attitude of a man about to dive into the water, and threw himself on to the railway, to the horror and astonishment of the bystanders. His body was terribly mangled, which rendered identification very difficult. No one recognised the deceased. Pemblo found in the deceased's pockets a small pocketbook, worked in coloured beads, which had been crushed while the train was passing over him, and a small purse. There was no money in the purse. From inquires made by Fernble, the deceased, it appears, was quite destitute. His name is Legon, a native of Germany, and he arrived in England about three weeks since. The deceased was a mechanical draughtsman, and had sought employment at several engineering Erms in London, and was unsuccessful. The want of employment, and the prospect of starvation before him, caused him to commit suicide. The deceased had been in a low and desponding state for several days.