SCOTLAND. The Aberdeen Bank was plundered, on Saturday night or
Sunday morning, of notes to the amount of 20,0001. by persons who bad con- cealed themselves, as is supposed, on the premises.
A woman named Jeffrey is now waiting in Glasgow GaolSh for execu- tion, having been came-foamed to death fur two made's. e kepta 100g-house, and poisoned two of her boarders. The motive in one ease is said to have been to retain possession of 5/. which bad been given her to take cure of; but an the other, the deed appears to have teem in the language of her counsel, " motiveless, passiouless, object- leer murder." The victim was a decrepul old woman, by whose death the murderess could sail nothing; unless, indeed, as the Depute- Ad- vorate suggested on her trial, she thought the old woman a lit subject for making an experiment upon with arsenic. Her execution is fixed
for the 21st of this mouth.
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