EXECUTION, &c.
Glasgow, 22d October 1828—This morning, THOMAS CONNOR & BELL M‘MENEMY were Executed in front of the Court Houses, convicted at the last Assizes of the crime of Assault and Robbery.
It may be recollected that M'Menemy, on her trial, pleaded Guilty to the charge of decoying a Highland boatman of the name of M'Kinnou, to the banks of the Canal, near Port-Eglinton, on the morning of the 20th May last, to which place, Connor, by previous compact, followed, where, after cruelly maltreating their victim, and knocking him on the head with a stone, to tho great effusion of his blood, they robbed him of forty shillings in silver, which the poor Highlander had secreted in the leg of one of his stockings.
Connor, who was 21 or 22 years of age, was born in the County of Tyrone, Ireland. The officers of justice describe him as being a bad boy ever since he was able to crawl, and that this should have been the case there is no wonder whatever, for his mother encouraged her son, even from his boyish days, in evil practiees, and whenever he committed an act more character-
