Age: 60
Sex: male
Date: 19 Mar 1909
Place: Roseball, Invershin, Sutherlandshire
Neil Hughes was found murdered on a moor in Invershin on 19 March 1909.
A man was arrested but later released.
Neil Hughes had been a peddler. He had been robbed and murdered in his tent on the road near to the village of Roseball in Sutherlandshire on the night of 18 March 1909.
It was thought that his head had been smashed in from outside of his tent, resulting in his brains being scattered about.
Neil Hughes was said to have been about 60 years of age and to have been a bachelor and to have lived alone.
He was said to have been a native of Stornoway.
see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
see Somerset Guardian and Radstock Observer - Friday 26 March 1909
see North Star and Farmers' Chronicle - Thursday 20 May 1909
see South Wales Daily News - Wednesday 24 March 1909
see Illustrated Police News - Saturday 27 March 1909
see Devon Valley Tribune - Tuesday 23 March 1909
see Aberdeen Press and Journal - Wednesday 31 March 1909
see Nairnshire Telegraph and General Advertiser for the Northern Counties - Tuesday 23 March 1909
