The Sun.
London, England, 1835-04-23 00:00:00

MURDER IN ROSS-SHIRE.

A communication in our last journal, stated that the
body of a female, respectably dressed, had been found on
Friday, concealed by turf and stones, in a planting on the
Milbuie. The body was discovered within 24 hours after
the murder was perpetrated, although, had it not been for
an accidental occurrence, it might have remained where it
was placed by the murderer for years unnoticed. Some
persons employed in a plantation, near the fatal spot, passed
the ruins of an old cottage, where one of them found a
glove, another part of a shoe and a small portion of a veil ;
this attracted their attention,- and on attempting to tear 111)
the veil they found the body, and gave notice of the eirol°l-
- to the others employed in planting.
Mr. Hugh Innes Cameron, Procurator Fiscal, Ding'
upon being informed of the murder, repaired to the sPr'
and commenced a minute investigation. Two respectable
medical gentlemen were at once satisfied that the unfortu-
nate deceased had met with a violent death. Handbills were
circulated, describing the clothes and articles found on the
body ; upon seeing one of which bills two women, °°
Sunday afternoon, called on Mr. John Macbean, an active
and judicious messenger, and stated that a woman in ever's,/
way answering the description given, had liVed for sever
weeks in a house in Chapel-street, which they mentioned;
that while there her husband, who stated his name to b.ed
Adams, frequently visited her, and then returned, as he sal
to work in Ross-shire, where, according to his own account,
he was preparing a house for her reception, but he er
plained of the delay in getting it properly completed. ler
terday se'nnight, however, Adams called on the decease u'
saying. that the house was now ready, and they left Inver"
ness together. From that time the family with which she
had resided had not seen Mrs. Adams. Mr. Macbean
stantly proceeded to Ross-shire, and after communieatin,g
with the Procurator Fiscal, discovered that the person who
had left Inverness with the unfortunate woman resided 11}
Dingwall with another wife, and had assumed the name °.
Anderson. The latter was consequently apprehended 1°
bed on Monday evening.
The prisoner having denied that he had ever seen the
deceased, or that she was his wife, the following conversa'
tick, took place on his being brought to see the body f
Procurator Fiscal—Anderson, put your hand in that e?
the unfortunate woman, and say was it ever there beer%
Prisoner—No, it was not ; I am not accustomed to see sue
awful sights.
Procurator Fiscal—Anderson, put your hand on till
bosom, and say before these persons, and your God,
your head ever rest on it ? Prisoner—No, it did not. a
Procurator Fiscal—Prisoner, touch those faded lips,!°.
say, did your's ever meet them in a kind embrace ?
soner (after considerable emotion, during which large clr°P
of sweat were falling down his forehead)—No, no !
The witnesses frogs Inverness, in whose house the !'.t
ceased resided, and who had frequently seen Anderson
her, were then brought into the room, and instantly idenve
fled' him ; still he persisted in his denial of any k°°ea
ledge of the deceased. Some furniture which the decea.s,,,
to;had brought from Montrose, of which she was a na
after having been in Inverness for some days, was sen.tio
Dingwall, and found in Anderson's house. A few arrt,c v.
of wearing apparel, marked " J. B." and identified as Pad
ing belonged to the deceased, were also found there, ti
the clothes on the body are marked in the same naanner'les
This atrocious murder was perpetrated about five
north of Kessock Ferry, near the high road to Ding Wa' 13,5
Anderson is a good-looking man, apparently about for
years of age. He bore in Dingwall, where he has been
about twelve months, an excellent character. The Peffh,
who lived with him there as his wife, is a young Engl:„ s
woman, who accompanied him from the south. She is I"

most distressed state. d
The gaol in Tain having been some time ago destroY et
by fire, and that of Dingwall being declared insu6,Dpcies;
Anderson was escorted last night by a party of the L.° ;0
shire Militia to Inverness, in the tolbooth of which he bon
remain sill the Autumn' Circuit Court of Justiciary, ,
he will be tried for the atrocious deed of which he
cased. be
[We visited the prisoner in his cell this mornint'w
seems more composed than could be expeeted, coneidlie
the circumstances under which he was apprehended. ,13
denies that he is a native of Montrose, but as, in his fp.ar
words, "it would hurt the feelings of his friends t° h'sa-
that he stood accused of such a crime," be declines tee.
to what part of the country he belongs."—lnverness

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An extraordinary sensation has been excited bYth
breaking up of the establishment of a certain wealth), c7ei
moiler, whose rental in a very few years would have execs

one thousand pounds per diem!
SUSPECTED MURDER.—Between four an—, ,to
o'clock yesterday morning police-serjeant Weaver, on gili'pect
visit the beats, was informed that a woman had been droW
in the Surrey Canal, about fifty yards above the - b
ra,,
Upon making inquiry he was informed by the watered'
the bridge, James Sullivan, that he heard a noise on nbits
barge about three o'clock in the morning. It appeared t:01
to be that of a person vomiting. He then heard mea°,,,iiea
proceeded towards the barge, but everything was then `1 sev
At day-break he again went towards the barge, and tbroeticorel
the clothes of a woman resting on the rudder. He 13 fort/
a boathook and raised the head of the deceased, but his es tbe
to rouse the bargeman were unavailing. When be t°,,,d be
man of the circumstance, he replied, " Let her drown •—rcbe
d—d," he would not be disturbed from his sleeP.,,,coin'
watchman then called police constable Reeves, vat° '" {the
panied him to the spot. The deceased when taken oat ° sod
water had neither shoes nor stockings on. The watebnluou
that no one passed the bridge from the time he relieve a she
he heard the noise. The barge is the Mary Ann' B°oo
left the bridge at half-past five o'clock for the Medway; f the
in lime at Messrs. Sanders and Co's. The none
bargeman is William Main.

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