The Express.
London, England, 1860-08-21 00:00:00

DIZZADIFUL 1111121)SR IN SDINBUIVIIII.

Ti.ure is every reaeuu to believe--although the
ornuostancee are vet to • great onset enshrouded in
mystery—that • fearful and revolting murder was perpe-
trated in the tiusee's Past, Edinburgh, on the person of •
yams* Pri. st as earl y hour on Sunday morn:m.
taino.l Elisabeth Slater, niece of 11 . Andrew
Slater, .later by trade, who rend at Na 1, St. John-
eensiaad ,he is slated by her uncle to have only coin.
piet t. r eleventh year on the Ist instant,
although from her apparalice she might have
gamed, it is aid, for fuerteen or fifteen yens of age.
At at four .. cluck oe Saturday afterseim, while Mt.
Mater and his wife were oat. and the deceased was left in
the hones with the servant, it is stated that she slipped out
with out the servant's keowlalp, carrying with her &bundle
of clothes. No quarrel with ber uncle, or any person in
the fam,le, had, it a mud, taken_ place, and oo motive can be
ani,med for this proceeding. The servant soon mimed the
gut, end sus meted that she had carried off the clothes with
her, sod en her uncle's return informed him of the cm-am-
staii:e. Mr. Slater came up and lacked information at the
pol.ce-otece, 111111 at be iequest • criminal officer wee sent
al mg with bias ki make a search for the girl. They
wont through • great many houses where she had been
in the habit of maim, and the search wee kept .up
by the family till three o'clock on Sunday morning,
but without samara The girl, when she left the house,
were • light printed cotton gown, with small dark spots ; •
• brown cloth cloak with bone buttons, and • Week felt
bat and black feather. She had fair hair, and, as already
mauled to. was tell, and maturely funned for her age. I
About four o'clock in the morning, the body eta young girl,
antweriag this description. was discovered by • man who
was along the Duke's-walk, Queen's-part, lying
near the of the outmost of the stripe cf via
tree.' on the mouth.west margin of the parade-
ground. Saville Park, and oppeite the west end
ef St. Margaret's Loch. The body waa fearfully diafigured,
the face bruised, swollen, and bleeding, and the bridge of
the sine broken. The react position of the body was
about a yard south of the tree, on the slope leading down
to the carriage rcad. BM lay on her back, with her head
upwards towards the foot of the tree. Blood was flowing
from I.er oar, and • counderable quantity was on the grass
of lace, tome., oPiaeLikaikeresownll.llA.llllf.litutth..l.3.l4mr
it had been pulled out with bloody Angers arid then thrust
bal. edam. A piece of the lace WWI also picked up a few
yet& from the body. A huge sharp sloes, found close to
the spot, was brought to the police-office. The ground near
where she wee lying wee also trampled and indented, as
If • struggle had taken place ; and oil • submequent
examination by the police, al.raelone were seen upon her
wrist, as if she had been held tightly and pulled about, and
'herb 'AA of fingers and mule were found ou her threat. The
bundle, with part of the clothes which she Wee:rad from
the house, was found lying beside her : and it would ap-
pear from the statements of the servant that she must have
put on part of tii, in, white petticosta and some other things,
and ch..oged her boots, after she had gone away. When she
left the house, or immediately before it, she wore leather
boots ; but when discovered in the park she had on • pair
of new cloth boob, also belonging to her ; and one of the
leather oces we. lying beside her, but the other was ennu-
is& and has not since been found.
The who had discovered the body hailed one or two
stragglers about the Park, and in • very short time a coon.
&table group of people were gathered arouse' it. Tho
police-
-INan at Mea&wbank, seeing the people softened there, also
elute up, and immediately dematched information to the
poliee-omee. In the course of the previous and subsequent
sequin*. it was ascertained that the girl had been seen at
deferent times during the previous evening and night in
munpaily with soldiers of the 13th Light Dragoons stationed
at Plantain. Me was observed by two different
rsons, about nine o'clock, ia the High-street
with a private ; and woe afterwards men in
the Plemasee, at twenty minutes past midnight,
be company with two **Wier, of the seine regiment,
nee ut sheen believed to be • caporal, and the
ether a private. A man who partite erly observed her at
this time, and whom attention was 'truck by suet a young
gut as she appeared to be going about with addicts, states,
that he overheard one of tone tell her to " Be off ;" that
the rephod, " What is the matter with yam!" and that they
then emit along Lowther, but had not gene far when the
soldier tweed reandand struck her or streak at her with
has sent.cb. Afterwards, about two Admit ea the Sunday
morning, the anfortienake feel was mesa by swam man with '
Yaw ii;ithem in the Qum's. park, near the ran wooden gate
am the somtheide of *hepatica's/dam One of theanidime was
striking her at that time with hie cane ea the bate. sad the
prl was eryke. The man was wain ikon 10.111 eds the
bask of the when she came after hien end *awed
the way to livet. lie climbed her to go through
tbeltaa-Bigh Wyatt est to the high rend. and as be was •
= ilea dismiss bimeall, the followed bun fern BMW
tarsal bask, however, before to
Opett-sa•Shgh„ and Again lased the soldiers ; sad ea leeh-
Mg beck the imen saw her take me of them by the ana, sad .
gu 'rah hum in the direction of lileedowbank. She wee also
"leer,. ad ia company with the Botcher* by the enamels of
the 78th ea duty both is frost and at the south smite of the
Ahem.

As sacs as information maehed the ArNeaoise that the
lady had been found, Amos were despatched to nareltill
Illarrae'ss, fur the purpose of ascertaining what men were
oat on rem, or absent without leave. It was fowl that a
gnat number of the men had got out as peso an the pre
imam night, sad after aa inspectios and asaannation of
those who had come in Late, it was footed that tooth*
could be elunted at that hour. Moses were ia the mean.
nine employed to decoyed who the dead 1101131111 WY, and
on Mr. Slater hew adorned of the oreurreace. ha came to
the Pobeecallee, and identified the body as that of his niece.
Mir. Lisle, amistaat musty fiscal, was then communicated
with, and despatched a letter to the commanding °Geer at
remanding that all the soldiers should be kept in
she barracks, and paraded at two o'clock, that they ought
be seen be the waitress, for the purpose of ideutdying
those with whom they had seen the girl duriag the previous
night. Aa answer was received, statin that the request
would be complied with, bet that there were four absentees
who mold not Le found. Between one and two o'clock,
!Serif! Paterson, Mr. Lothi.u, procurator heal, and the
police. proceeded to Piershill, along with eight witnesses,
bat after a lengthened inspection none of the soldiers on
parade were identified. A emzeh was meetawlide made fur
the four absentee*, sad between three and four o'clock,
two of them, named Jabs Tanner and John Quin,
were dimoverel ia a disimputable house in
Clam. Canongate. They were both taken into custody, and
Tanner was identified by armed of the edemas as having
Loco oen by them along with the girl at different times,
awl particularly iu the Plea AMC,' about half-Mat twelve oa
&flaky morning. He was juditially examined before the
sheriff nee Sunday vetoing, awl has been lodged in prison
pionsionally, on the charge of murder. Nixie of the wit.
nerves eoukl speak positively to Quin, but he is also de-
tamed for further examination. The third man seen with
the girl. stated by some of the witness*. to have been a
corporal, had not bees found up to a isle hour on Mon
day nntht. A post.monerni examination was to be made
yentoruay.