Glasgow Courier. — 1854-05-11 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

MORN ING.—The matelleasaat feeling created in the public mind, pattlewhirly in this part of the COLl::ry, by the St. Fergus cane, has not been allowed to pars away when it is again harrowed unhyttic elleurrence of another murder, equalling in its etrechmeness the fearful deed committed by George Christie is this vicinity two years ago. The particulars; ee far as they have yet emus to light, are as fonowt—Oe Settirday evenleg last, shortly etre so o'clock, a young woman, named Ann Harvey, aged 22, left her residence at the paper mills of Peterculter, where she was emeloved, about eight miles from Aberdeen, to proceed to town for the purpose of inakhig some purchases—telling the woman with whom she boarded not to be surprised although ehe should not return he fore 12 o'clock that night, or even till next morning, as she had an appointment to. meet 'Francie, a man who was understood amongst her fellow-workers to be her sweetheart. Leaving, then, at the time indicated, nothing as yet his been a renamed of her progress, till her body -wat found by two young serving-lads, with the throat cut and gashed in the most frightful manner, between five Rol six o'clock on Sunday morning, !frig in the ineide edge of a dyke, the top of which WWI leffel with a planting of wood, clone at the side of the Distiede turnpike at a place called Cults, just four miles from Aberdeen. The poor girl lad been thus far on her wee home again with her humble stock of provisions for the week, Vo lion she met her death, for by her aide was a small pail, a basket, a reticule containing two parcels with small quantitielof tea and sugar, a loaf tied up in a handkerchief, a bit of beef, and several other little neeessarke. The deed leettliem daimon the side of the ketronike,.pd the gremstigises no Mem-4(tin stragewe wgelzmi ~,gimatmagelpiskince. What. rdereesidottee, it evidently WOO not Money, as 23, about the balance of her wages after paying for the provisions' were found in her pocket. The fact that although a great quantity of blood was on theroad, and in the ditch, yet t ha t scarcely any was on her clothe., leads to the supposition that the murder must have been perpetrated while the girl was on the ground. The loaf was also soaked with blood, as If it had been planed below her head; and there is every reason to think that the murderer had forcibly violated his victim's person. Beside, the blood on the road, there were also small bite of fleshy matter, as if cut out from the throat, which presented a most horrifying appearance, the unbar. tunate woman's head being seemingly only left con. nected with the body by the skin at the bank of the neck. The deed has evidently been done with some strong sharp instrument, though nothing of the kind his as yet been found—a fact which will at once dis. miss the idea of suicide. On the left cheek there is s deep gash, as if the striker had missed his mark at the first attempt. After perpetrating the murder, the monster had lifted the body to the back of the dyke, which is about five feet high as stated, and apparently had found some difficulty in doing SO-perhaps through drink—as the stones were all clotted with blood, OA if the head had struck frequently upon them. The contents of the basket, which was lying beside the body, were also marked with blood, as if they had fallen out and been replaced with bloody hands. Immediately on the body being din. covered, Mr. George Barclay, one of the parish elders, whose house is situated within one hundred yards of the spot where the crime was committed, sent information to Fiscal Simpson at Aberdeen, who arrived shortly after in company with Sheriff Watson and several other °Solids. On examining the pockets of the deceased • paoka ge of letters was fond, iut•luding an emlinseed valentine with some verses of poetry addrowed to her by Francis Forbes, East Mid. dleton, Banchory-Devenick, the parish in which the crime was committed. On obtaining this clue (for up to this time the body wa3 perfectly unknown to all who bud seen it), the Sheriff and the Fiscal went to Forbes' house, which is only about a mile from the place where the body was lying; and finding him made some inquiries about the girl, when he at once admitted that Ann Harvey was well known to him that, in fact, she was his sweetheart—but that he had not seen her on the previous evening, and that lie knew nothing of the murder, as he had been in bed all night. On being asked to explain how certain marks of blood came to be upon his clothes which he had been wearing on the previous day, he said thnt his nose had been bleeding and that his comrades could testify to the truth of this. On being asked by the Sheriff if be had a knife, Ills reported that he answered' Yes,' and began to search his pockets for it, when, suddenly, as if recollecting himself, he said he did not carry a knife. The authorities, however, saw evidence enough to justify them in apprehending Forbes; and the consequence is that he now lies in jail, until, at least, the legal and medical examination, which is now going on, be completed. It is somewhat suspicious that all his clothes 'sat ,'"` soiled shirt, whieh he must have . . .