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Gazette Of The United States And Daily Evening Advertiser
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
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In Glasgow, Scotland, accountant William Pettigrew was tried and convicted of murdering his wife by battering her with a bottle and lacerating her neck; sentenced to 14 years transportation despite insanity plea.
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The lenity and equality of the Law of Scotland.
On the 4th day of this month, William Pettigrew, an accountant in Glasgow, was tried at the circuit court for the murder of his wife, in a most cruel and barbarous manner. He first knocked her down with a bottle, which broke with the violence of the stroke, and then took that part attached to the neck, and cut, lacerated, and tore the muscles of her neck in such a dreadful manner that she died in great agonies shortly after. The charge was clearly proved—the Panel (i.e. Prisoner) set up a plea of insanity; but upon minute enquiry it was rejected. The jury found him guilty of culpable homicide, being a Scots term for wilful murder. The court passed sentence of transportation out of Scotland for fourteen years, with a certification of death in case he returned to Scotland previous to that time.
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Glasgow, Scotland
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4th Day Of This Month
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wife murdered; pettigrew found guilty of culpable homicide and sentenced to transportation out of scotland for fourteen years, with death certification if he returns early
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William Pettigrew, an accountant in Glasgow, was tried at the circuit court for murdering his wife by knocking her down with a bottle and then lacerating her neck with the broken neck part, causing her death in agonies. The charge was proved; plea of insanity rejected. Jury found him guilty of culpable homicide (Scots term for wilful murder).