The Sun.
London, England, 1861-12-11 00:00:00

TILE INVERNESS MURDER.

A man named Ferguson (a mason), his wife and
wo daughters, who lived near the place where the
body of the unfortunate lad Cumming, was found on
Sunday morning, have been apprehended on
suspicion of complicity in his murder. The
Inverness Courier, writing of the occurrence, says :
—" At a corner of the yard, near the spot where the
body was found, a quantity of blood and the aprear-
ance of vomiting were noticed. In the garden
behind Ferguson's house, which is of considerable
size, footmarks and a devious track were discovered
leading along the paling as far back as the wall
which divides it from Bell's Park. In one or two
places the bushes along the side of the fence were
partly broken and damaged, and there the marks
of the footsteps were more numerous and compli-
cated—as if the person or persons moving along
had staggered up, and tumbled on the bushes or
had walked in among them. There the track was
lost in harder ground, but some marks were
observed beside a pig stye, which were supposed to
be marks of blood and vomiting. The track was
recovered in the middle of the adjoining garden,
which is partly separated by a fence of one cross-
rail ; it crossed the garden, and in one part the foot-
steps were very distinct. The track returned in
the second garden to the Bell's School wall, and
then followed the fence back to the opposite end of
the garden. Here was a filthy corner, and the
footsteps were traced from it half-way back their
former course. Again the footsteps turned, and this
time were directed circuitously to a passage leading
into the yard behind Mr. Fraser's house, in which
the body was found. Between the exit from the
passage the shed where he lay there is a cesspool,
containing the liquid manure from a cow-house, and
the refuse of the dwelling-house. It is supposed
tiy some, who conceive that there was no murder or
even homicide in the case, that the deceased, in the
coming out of the passage from the garden, had
fallen into the cesspool, ono side of which is edged
with sharp mason work, and there received the blow
on his temple; that when he got up he staggered to
the corner where the blood and traces of vomiting
were found, and, stupified by the fall, and disgusted
by the offensive smell of his clothes, threw them
off and made for the carpenter's shed behind Mr.
Fraser's house, where he died from exposure and
the injury ho had received. On the other hand,
serious charges are brought against Nicol Ferguson
and his family. The clothes of the deceased were
found in the possession of Mrs. Judge, Ferguson's
eldest daughter, and the only effects of any value
were concealed in his garden-plot. The testimony
of the neighbours is unanimous to the effect that
great uproar was heard in this family about three
o'clock on Sunday morning. Persons living above
heard two men's voices in the room below, one of
them recognised as Ferguson's. A female voice,
thought to be Mrs. Ferguson's, was heard by one
of the neighbours, and supposed to proceed from
the back garden, swearing offensively, and very
violent. Another neighbour also heard violent
ejaculations, but conceived that they were in the
voice of Mrs. Judge. Among other expressions
was heard, " The Lord forgive me for what I have
done," followed by the words, " Whist, whist,
whist," in the voice of the father. Ferguson's family
seems to have been an unruly one, and the neigh-
bours were quite accustomed to hear violence and
uproar in their rooms, especially on " pay-
nights." On this occasion the noise was greater
than usual, and was remarked by all the neighbours.
Mrs. Hay, who lives next door, and a cousin from
the country who that night slept with her, were so
much disturbed that the former rose out of bed, and
threw up the back window, whence the noise pro-
ceeded, but the night being very dark she saw no
one, and heard only the voice of Mrs. Ferguson,
who she supposed had been locked out of her house,
and had taken refuge in a small outhouse. Later
in the night she was again disturbed, and con-
ceived that Mrs. Ferguson had got hold of a ladder
and was attempting to effect an entrance at some
of her neighbours' windows. Her husband, sleeping
in a room adjoining, was also aware of the distur-
bance, and at a late hour he heard in the back
garden a man's voice,exclaiming "Geordie, Geordie !"
This cry was also heard by Roderick Mackintosh,
who lives immediately above the Fergusons' room,
but he fancied that the voice proceeded from Rose-
street. The deceased was not known to have any
connexion with the family apprehended, but on this
occasion there was a reason for his being in their
house. On his way from Tomatin he had received
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ascertained that before he could have gone to Rose-
street the night was pretty far advanced, and
though when last seen he was certainly not
drunk, he had been drinking with various compa-
nions, and must have been much fatigued by his long
walk from Tomatin after a day's work. He had
called at his employer's house on arriving, and re-
ceived a pound-note on account of his wages. Part
of this had been spent-3s. in tobacco, 2s. 6d. on a
neck-tie, found by the police in Ferguson's-garden,
and a few shillings in treating friends whom he met
in Inverness. Of the balance less than 2s. had been
recovered. It was a very small sum to covet, but
the Fergusons appear to have been in a state
.of
wretched destitution. There was a family of six
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persons—the father and mother, three daughters,
the child of Mrs. Judge. They occupied only
one room and a closet, both of which were almost
fur-
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was a chaff bed in the principal room, which, we are
told, was usually occupied by Ferguson, his second
and third daughters, girls of about is and 13 years
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respecwtiivtehlyshings and straw, but not a particle of. The closet contained a fixed bedstead,
filled
bedclothes. This was the ordinary sleeping place of
Mrs. Ferguson, her daughter Mrs. Judge and her
grandchild. There was no food in the 'house on
Sunday except about sixpence worth of
oatmeal—no eiin•ogekery, no eating utensils—nothing,
in fact, but the two bedsteads, a table, a chair, and
one or two trunks. A more lamentable scene of
squalor, wretchedness, and dirt, could hardly be con-
ceived. The incidents of this unhappy affair appear
in some respects inconsistent with any theory that
has yet been suggested, but the case is in the hands
of Messrs. Stewart and Rule, and the public may
feel assured that all the facts will be carefully inves-
tigated and submitted to Crown counsel.

TRIBAL-AMERICA'S ULSTER' PLANTA-
TIONS, T itANSFER'D WITH WILL 4 TRUSTEES,
' THUS CEASE YE TO PAY RENTAL-TO
ISY RETRO-LONGITUDE 2851 YR'S ACT, 2-3 VI. IN.. C. 92, § 4,
ALSO 5 VIC. C. 39, §4, 1842, Par's-10th, Q. AN-ENTY., SO
S. *INN-Jetsam eltiap Lagan' rota OUT-fiat-semi cs N.
Wall ' murem 24 March--29 Sept. Brrants %-sfinan9ials
Julian-ft-very on Twe-x-ed Fishery-park law-sets. • •
CA.RIRESQUE-Sachims and Merchants.-For commercial
quiet it becomes my duty, in opposition to the opinion of the
placet' Churchmen lawyers of British kirk, to state that the
officers of the anti-slavery coast-guard ship San Jacinto,
have acted in conformity with ' the Municipal Acts of the
21st year of Penn's Regulus parliament, Art. xx., by force
of which no planter, or any of the preprietory, can leave the
landboard without a notice of three week's market-place
guarantee of his debts under a justice certificate, the ship
and captain aiding such evil-set persons' to be open to the *
*right of search' law as now given up. (Signed, . : :
• R. ANGELO, J. SOUTH WORTH, Cl. of Synode,
J. GROWDON, Speaker, Oct. 28, 1701), Re-model'd, 1832-38.
Sachims-The last Illustrated London News, No. 1,119,
page 538, gives us, Clarendon's carlinea, in Philadeph's
Pensylvan-arm°rial (word t. scale, as H. 6, Keeper of the
touch, resolution of its two councils' on Middletone's fens
ore (' Fodinse-regales,' of James L's 72 New River shares
1-plug in London's Goldfmith company of Philadelphia, on
England's royalty 36-L5OO ones) as tested by De'con° Henry
Wotton and Montague-so CAR. IL Hyde's grant of 1662's
dependence on Penn's 1681-1701, in Quaker's affirm act,
1749, on 1777 Indis.n responsibility in trust, the whole of
which guarantees of the allies were transferred by commit-
te of House of Commons (12th Feb., 1836, Gladstone and
Buxton, chairmen, for a NEW England dodge of 'peculiar'
institution), with undersigned § Lay-oe'cones as their pa-
trons and advocates of Q-Ann-Bnty, let, plantation 10ths.
See, so 4121 Aborigines' Reyort, 1837, to 2d March, 1841,
London Convention (Philaoe phsa), by Bulo, Palmerston
and Labouchere, through Daniel Webster and Perley, 3d
Sept., '4l, election of indian Peter, B. 11, as successor to
the 99 years' leases (12 to run, under the 14th George 111.,
1774, for Sac°mo Jos. Brant, on old John Adams' sugges-
tion-whose grandson is now here)-and approved at
Philadelph's Lancaster Longbro Duchy crt., Gloster, '75 by
Atkyns Montague § Chamberlayne for (Hugh Chamberlen
& Co's, Goldfmith' 8-1 N. siver proprietary) Steggles
Thus, Sachins, you learn the political cause for removing
the Ohio Florida-semioles and Georgn Cherokee Indians of
the coast, 100 miles west of the Mississippia, lodge-poised-
North and South of Mount Pleasant, in the rear of the
white faced slave-planters or builders, to prevent their
black cattle mixing with the virgin races through the Lan-
caster FRAME and Concessions Act, Art. I-XIV., for
mixt Comiin Crt. of 6 Planters and 6 Native Indians.
Hence new shire-crt' foundation' on rre,nch and sritish
3tys, Jan. & Nov., 1840, as prefac'd to Washington Extra-
dition Act fur Indian (Sept. 3, 1841) election of P. 'Basket,'
the living representative of the Ashburton boundary com-
mission, to personify Wotton & Penn-Ackerley's sworn -in
successor as sponsor of Indian lady 1820-for Act of 1843's
Empery (extra Ditio-nis) court, of ' Texas-hundred' 6 & 6
partners, for basis to the legislative law of England and all
America, for outing the Filibuster-French-placet [1562 of
Borromeo's ' Churchmen to pay taxes, 10ths, and forage
subsidies' of the Trent council, for swamping by votes thro'
the Jesuit-Lopez Louisiana'd], in Cencfts.
RESOLUTE In re Trent- t of Slidell, Mason, and
others, as ' contra-band it rsons,' you perceive, is
just for trade quiet, in this case, the below state-codiciled
recognition is requisite, tho' hitherto made the scapegoats
of the Luther Calvin Swiss fraters de Sac' cis of the
'-
bronze'd-}-PENN-statue 16'x-peace Society of friends.
Sagamores.-By Odic longitude Act's on 1818 ('24-32
still pending), §4.9, subjects or subject, have equal rewards
in all May-polar expeditions. Ye will now think deep of
the danger of joining either party of the white faces or half-
caste Indian persuaders, and are hereby forbid from notic-
ing- riaceed-proclamation's as headed in the Times and
Post of 16th Nov., "A Convention between ENGLAND,
France, and Spain," and signed 31st Oct., 1861, whereby
you will perceive that on such setting forth], the com-
mon law is not embraced in the said deed for the Indian's
rights, or alien's of the contracting parties to keep peace
on their soil. By " this" and reasons as follows so:-'
" Command oid words, that 10n,c,, have slept-to wake,
Words that wise Bacon, and brave Raleigh spake."
1. My Admiralty RED flag, is the War Gap-line one of
Water limits (the Flag Union of the crosses on 3 James
I. is a Christian Jacno Zollverein trading flag x and
not a belligerent by Ordnance issue t. 340 of Jan. 31 1842,
from the Tower), the Civile Service Merchant Flag, on
board the + Car. 2 Portable-post-Office Trent, had not the
white border to it-the Church having no flag.
2. That the mythic words British and Britain, whether
St. George's or St. Patrick's Channel, for excluding the
word England from the 1782 court Christian sea charts,
adopted without the sanction of Europe, contrary to the
Justinian Roman law base of the X-span' Fueros union
courts of E-gal law of 1521, and under 1764 trust, which
has been decided in the Angl'lot-span'sh Texas Crts. inad-
missible, by the assumed Britishers and Frenchmen of in-
corporated St. Denis, under the words "except France" in
March 3, 1815, U. S. 3ty, prior to Blucher and Wellington's
signature [for restoration of the Jesuits of the 2d order of
Melchisidek on a ' moving earth error' with it] the 17th
of June, 1815, the eve, of their battle of Waterloo's Brazil'd
Belgic Leopold-Pedro 2-ty's in 1828-30 of illegality.
3, The Papal assumption of Sir W. Gore Ouseley in
collecting the signatures of the 800 Sachims for rebellion
in my name, (seen by his Wabash'd Walker succession in
Central America, for the Bamberg-Sigismund life-tenure
1047, Dappes-assumption of A•E'R.T Savoy), for seizing of
Mexico, from England-itself-caused his papist envoy Capt.
Aldham, to be shot by the Indians, as sacrificing their
nationalities to priests wolves men as manifest by
late Morocco bullion theft' convention, for dynastic retro-
spects in violation of Ackerley's God's-acre : save pivot-
trust appointment of 29th Aug., 1825, for the benefit of all
parties, without distinction of creed or colour, including the
MONROE doctrine, Las of Bohun'd Phil. 11. Manilla channel
of official letter], which elected the Indian Peter as the
law's font, and recognised by Peel & Derby's Queen, and
the King of Prussia at Windsor Castle, 1842, as the ' sole'
elect of P6land's N.-west Russia A-uurman of the coat-
years Dutch loan act of 1832, unconnected with religion.
Fourthly. The ' Lie-ratification of London' Gazette,
and not, within the fifteen days, is illegal by act of Parlia-
ment on Extradition Texas-hundred trust, it being in a
sup-plement-' whity-coloured persons being interdicted
from voice in this peculiar az'fmithson'an institution' of
March and April, 1836, cn (Gladstone's) comtee. of H. C.
The foregoing Chain proves to ye', Sachims I Indians,
aliens, &c., that the Cabinets named in this convention
are engaged in carrying out the Romish dictum of Mr.
CANNING, in a convers° Domus sense, (in total opposition to
the legislative unity of the standard of weight and measure
of 1824 and 1835, for raising the revenue -under annual
election of paid laymen-for guiding the commerce of the
world) without consulting the State arbiter below-so to
(6 & 61) "Scorn arbitration as a stain- §(X & 14)
9th.] To ninth and tenth of William's reign." [nO 10th.
Therefore the Civic Signor Neutro' gist of this letter, for
my right, is also [the monetary reeognition of all dues from
America upon the principal of primary well-intention of
the whites and evident decay of human nature, by their
theft of our 1730 Indian nationality, on my life], by a brother
and sisterly love for the future, under the law of England,
as (disconnected now with t- PoperiS-Churches, or t-water
sects on minister's money hitherto) the dread-bag'-estate.
PETER BRANT BASQUET, America's Medard-sack°m6,
xephew ji (of Sac'mo J. Brant, 1775-Saemo Peter Toma
Brant, 1825-LlO, of New Brunswick), Canada's Gaspe.
L.S. 11.7's- §C. H. ACERRLEY, P.C.,-sworn in,
-C. J., Ireland's Empery comffn of Review, 1825-37,
L.S. TIM S's Executors' PEVOTTON' LION BOWES, P.C.
Dec. 10-London. See Ths sun, Nov. 16, 1861.

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