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Confession OF MURDER! A Full and Particular Account of the Apprehension of THOMAS MOFFAT, who fled from Kilsyth about three years ago, for the Barbarous Murder of his own Father, by repeated Stabs in the abdomen! with an Account of his Confession and also of the manner in which he spent his life since, &c. ON Friday the 7th of October 1825, Serjeant Leckie of the Cal- ton Police Glasgow, accampanied by a Sheriff-Officer, appre- hended, in Auchinearn, who was working at his loom in a house in that village, where he went under the assumed name of George Watson. It will be recollected he was outlawed for the murder of his father, three years ago, in Kilsyth. He was seized without his coat; and was taken into a public-house,, he made off, and ran through three parks, bolting through hedges, but was at last taken in ambush. He says he was twice in the police office since the murder, but was not reconized. He confesses the murder; but blames his fa- ther for striking and ill-using his mother, and for drinking all the money he earned, and starving the family, and giving them no education whatever. He said that the night he killed his father, he was much intoxicated, and did not recollect how the murder was effected. The death of his father was effected by repeated stabs in the adbomen. He said when he absconded he went to Dumfries, but stopped only ooe or tow nights there, because ne could not rest. He came to Auchinearn, where he had been living ever since. He said he has never since got a sound sleep, except the nights he was the worse of liquor. He was about to be married. When in jail, he said to Mr Leckie that it was the happiest night he had since he committed the deed. If his mother was dead, he he did not care how soon he left the world. He has a very down- cast look, and is about 5 feet 8 inches high. He was sent off on Tuesday morning under an escort to Stirling Jail. Edinburgh :?Printed for James M'Lean.?Price One Penny.
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1825 shelfmark: Ry.III.a.2(69)
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