The Express.
London, England, 1861-12-05 00:00:00

MURDER IN INVERNESS.

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On Sunday morning last, aaya the /misses Jaw-
, riser, the community were horrified to learn that a man had
been found dad, and to all appearance fo murdered,
&backyard of sew of the hoses in town. The foals at this
painful case, in so far as they have been allowed to transpire,
are believed to be as follows : —David Cumming, Ober, a
young man of twenty-three years, in the employment of
Mr. Mackay, of this town, had been working for his master
at • job in the country, and returned to Inverness on
Saturday to vied his parents, who are decent respectable
ratresiding at the Shore. In the absence al his master,
ing, we believe, received from Mrs. Mulkey 11. as
wages, and thereafter he appears to have been semged
chatting with acquaintances, one of whom he treated to
• bottle of lemonade, leaving him at eleven o'clock
on Saturday evening at the head of Church-street. So far
as yet ascertained, this was the last time Cumming was sees
in lite. His read homewards was by the foot at Church-
, street, on his wa to the Shore, and as the oleos when his
body was found lay out of the path maw malign Meows
must ham withdrawn his steps in the direction of ROW
street. When last seen Cumming was quite sober ; and,
' indeed, as we are gives to understand, be was resistibly
correct in his habits, being • temperate sod well-behaved
young man. On the south aide of Roe.-street, sad imme-
diately beyond the foundry at Mews. Smiths sod Mackay,
there is • imp of three tenements of two stories
each. Them are numbered 35, 34i, and 37, and us
inhabited by the poorer clam of poste, cm
family occupying the ground floor, and • second
the attic above. AU the houses have back prdans
of considerable extent, which streak to the Mina* wall
of Bell's Institution. No. 37 is the home sears* Aaeiem▪ and part of the ground at the back of this house is
occupied by a stable, which his an entrance from the street.
There is also a range of three wooden cellars at the back of
this tenement. It was in one of these erections, the centre
one, that Cumming's body was found on Sunday morning.
About wen o'clock, and while yet dark, Mrs. Fraser, who
occupies the lower part of No. 37, heard homy soma*
outmode, as from OWN perms in diatom mod, procuring •
light, she went into the back-yard, end opening the
door of the centre cellar, from whom the sounds pro-
ceeded, to her extreme horror and surprise she saw • man
lying on the leer, and apparently deed. She instantly
gave the alarm, and the burgh police and Pr. Hanford were
'immediately on the spot, and bad the body removed into
Mrs. Frasee's house. By this time, however, only a little
wsamth 'wanted to iodine* where life hid once been.
The poor lad was dead : nor was the muse of death difficult
to discover. On his temple were the masks of • blow,
as if from • heavy hammer, which bad cut is
and indenteda portion of the skull. When first
sea the body was entirely divested of cloth..
Mg, with the exception of two 'earldom sad ow boot.
It being at once apparent that Uwe bed been
robbery, if not certain and deliberate murder, the
police set to work to discover if possible any traces of a
struggle near the place, and observing woks in the mart.
yiud as if a tiedy had bees shagged aloft, they followed the
traces. These led through to the bee pedals pest the
Made, sod from • point bore across the garden of No. 36
into the one belonging to No. 35 of the street, and through
this garden immediately to the back of this particular Wass.
Farther search revealed to-day the Withal of Cumming,
which wen brought from an out-house of the wee garde*,
and a little later, Superintendent Sutherland halm ob-
served something protruding from the ground of the
cabbage plot of this banal, only • few yards from
the Ma windovr, the spot wen dog up and brewed to
light the watch, a Woken read, a necktie, and la Id. et
isesay, belonging to the apparently meandered man. As a
matter of came • watch ens placed over the inmates of
the house No. 35, and in the mune of the day they were
Slgpn carried to prison. The termite of this
man a +adrift moron, his Mk, and throe
damakees, who, with the exesptien of the yis=
Alusgbler, • mere child, now lie la the
Amigo ls emit the ieveetigatioe al the authorities.
We undseetand that, besides the cinumeanere above
61E14 Illthiss have eons to light ol as unfavourable
reepeding aerials members of this family
an the night at the suspected minder. All the amm-
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of ahem siely false ; and whatever trestireethy informs.
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ere that the made eljeetioe might be thereby defeated. We
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bellowed to have bus in Catmint loottoolow aguipoti
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