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THE GLASGOW HOTEL OUTRAGE.

Alexandci Allardiee. the Edinburgh law clerk whose murcWous a^ault upon a man named Taylor at the Bt. Enoch Station Hotel. G'a-»:»ov. . ni'd subsequent attempt to escape by leaping through a window. I related «ome time ago, was brought yip for sentence at (ho High Court of Justiciary, Edinburgh, on February 12. He pleaded guilty, and threw himself upon the m^rey of the court His counsel stated that the prLonor came from Banff, and wa^ jiiaitieally the .sole support of his aged aiid widowed mother. He did well iiiitil he became engaged to a young lady in Edinburgh, and then, feeling his need of mor.ev, he went off to Monte Caiio, in the hope of winning a fortune there-. liwesul of doing so he lost all the money he had, ainl h.-» i' v .en concocted the crimi<?l .-"'.'fine which li;-d brought Im.ii lo ni'ii. r lhe Crown Advo'.ite did not di-pute* the i.v n f.iets of th.-> i,'c-c as thus ec 4 fo'-'ih, but c 'iiil th's wa- no doubt >n elaborate tirnl carefully - thought - out scheme to obtnui money. Lord Pearson, the itidge who tu>d t!i<> ca-e. sentenced the prisoner, who is 28 jeais of age, to three years' poua! servitude. In spit" of sympathy with hi- relatives nne cam.ot but feel tha! he deserved this punishment for trying to murder a man who had tUine him no harm, by striking him on tho head with an iron bar

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Otago Witness, Issue 2509, 16 April 1902, Page 30

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THE GLASGOW HOTEL OUTRAGE. Otago Witness, Issue 2509, 16 April 1902, Page 30

THE GLASGOW HOTEL OUTRAGE. Otago Witness, Issue 2509, 16 April 1902, Page 30