The Sun.
London, England, 1865-01-07 00:00:00

Death in the Snow,

On Sunday morning a sad tragedy was (liseovcrd to
have happened on the hill of Drunimouehter, near Calvine,
not four miles from Blair Athole. A party of travelling
tinkers—John M'Kenzie, Catherine Cameron, his reputed
wife, and Duncan Cameron, her brother—had been stay-
ing in the neighbourhood for a day or two, and they passed

V;iday night in the Strowan wood, near Blair. They had

resolved to start for Inverness-shire;oUSaturday morning,
going over the hills instead of by the road, and with this
view they began refreshing themselves by drinking two

gills of whisky at inns a few miles from each other. They
left the Bruar Inn about one o'clock in the afternoon, tak-

ing with them a bottle of whisky. They were next seen
going northwards by the farm-manager at Calvine, and

then seemed quite hearty, the woman appearing the best
traveller of the three. This was about two o'clock, and

shortly after they met another tinker, named Alexander
Stuart. It would seem that this meeting was considered a

favourable opportunity for attacking the whisky bottle,
as Stuart states that it was then produced and emptied.
He was afterwards sent to Strowan Inn for another two
shillings' worth of whiskey, and returned to the party
with it about five o'clock, giving the bottle to the woman.
Her brother, Duncan Cameron, had left for Calvine, in
order to get shelter, as the night was coming on wild, and
with every appearance of a heavy snow storm, but
IPlienzie and his wife seemed determined to brave it out
on the hill side. They-seem to have quickly fallen asleep,
as did Stuart ; but he woke up about seven o'clock, and
could hardly move with the cold, a wreath of snow having
accumulated at his head. He states that he then tried to
rouse the others, but failed, and, in order to save his own
life, he almost crept along to Calvine, where he found
Cameron, and got food and shelter, but said nothing
about the two persons he had left. About midnight 3/Plien-
zie himself woke up, quite stiff. He says he did all he could
to wake his wife, but without effect. Unable to walk for
some time, he got along on his hands and:knees a good bit,
and ultimately made hisway to a byre at Calvine, where he
lay beside a cow till morning. Then he told his story, and
getting some food for his wife, he and Stuart proceeded in
search of hex. They found the poor woman quite dead and
stiff, a good distance from the place where she was last seen.
It would appear she had also awakened, and found herself
helpless with the cold, but had made desperate efforts to
reach some place of safety. The marks among the snow
showed that she had dragged herself along slowly for a bit,
and then falling among stones, had rolled down the hill near
to the side of the river Garry, at a few yards from which
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her dead body was found. Poor woman ! though
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years of age, she had perished partly through herr
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strong drink, for Stuart states that she was afraid f herand
husband getting any of the last two shilling:ith worth,
the view
that 319ien.zie did contrive to take aedrop,
k.
It was evi-
of not allowing his wife to become to
to " keep out tho
dent, however, that she needed somethingtand most meagre
cold," for her clothing
poorest
this season ofth
was of the
description. Will it bo believed that
year a woman was attempting a journey over the hills fret:
Perthshire to Inverness-shim, clad only in a loose torn
skirt of an old gown, an old shawl, and some rags about
the waist ? Her person, indeed, was not entirely covered,
;and when the wind The dashed the shawl aside, the breast wag
exposed quite . poor creature had no stockings,
and the old boots she wore scarcely protected her feet front
the ground--certainly not from the snow. When the facts
became known in the district a good deal of excitement was
caoed. The body was removed to the church at Strewau
about noon on Sabbath, and was buried in the churchyard
by the parish authorities on Monday. It might be thought,
from WlCenzie's conduct before her death, that he- cared
but little for his wife; but his subsequent demeanour, un-
less he is a capital actor, gave tokens of there having existed
a very strong affection between them.—Dwuke Advertiser.

EXECUTION OF THE CONVICT BROWN.—Henry
Brown, who, with Thomas Lindon (since respited), was
convicted at the last Liverpool assizes of the murder of a
man named 11Carthy, whom he had killed by gouging
out his eye with a pistol, was executed this morning at
Kirkdale. He was visited yesterday by his father and his
wife, and seethed to be deeply affected by his position.
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