A MURDER AMONG THE MOUNTAINS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1950, 1 October 1889, Page 3

A MURDER AMONG THE MOUNTAINS.

A great sensation has been made by the discovery of the body of a Mr E. E. Rose under such circumstances as leave no doubt that the young tourist was the victim of foul play. The scene of the tragedy was in one of the loveliest glens of the Isle of Arran, and the body was found by a large search party who were led to the spot by the foul smell. The corpse was found at the foot of the cliffs which form the northern wall of the “ saddle " or extended ridge separating Glen Sannox from Glen Rosa, The cliffs at this point are about 250 feet high, and from a broad ledge at the base there is a steep slope of 600 feet to the bed of Glen Sannox. The body was carefully concealed. It had been dragged for some distance, and pushed under a ledge of rock face downward. A waterproof coat had then been drawn over it, and stones, to the number of forty at least, some of them very large, bad been piled over it so as to cover it completely. The position of the body, and the systematic way in which it was concealed, prove clearly that it did not reach its resting place by ' accident. The skull was fractured and a "jaw was broken; but otherwise the body was very little injured. The cap of the deceased also was found not far off, covered with a stone, and in the neighborhood a knife and pencil and a button were picked up. According to current rumours, Mr Rose came to Arran about three weeks ago in company with another young man, with whom he had struck up a chance acquaintance in the course of a vacation tour in the Highlands. Of the other young man nothing is known except that he returned to Brodick on the day of Rose’s disappearance, saying that he had tired, and that his friend had gone on alone, and that he left Arran next day either for Androssan or for Rothesay. Nothing definite has been heard of him since. It is said that he and Rose occupied the same room in Brodick, On the night of the disappearance of the latter it is said that both beds were successively occupied, so as to give the impression that Rose had occupied his room as usual, and had left at an early hour.