WITNESS--I know this to be the same coulter, my attention being called
to it from this circumstance particularly, that a short time before it
was stolen it was sent to a smith, with instructions to sharpen it the
whole length, that it might be fit for cutting the turf which was to be
ploughed up. He did not observe these instructions, but returned it in
the situation it is now in.
[Sidenote: Grahame Campbell]
17. GRAHAME CAMPBELL, sometime servant to the pannel, George Smith,
called in and sworn.
WITNESS--I was servant to the prisoner, George Smith, and I know the
other prisoner, Mr. Brodie. I never heard of the Excise Office being
broke until I was apprehended, along with my mistress and Andrew
Ainslie, and committed to prison in the beginning of last spring. I have
seen Mr. Brodie, and likewise Andrew Ainslie and John Brown, often in
Mr. Smith’s house, and they were all very frequently there in company
together. In particular I remember their being all there one night about
the dusk of the evening, not long before I was apprehended, but as they
were so frequently at my master’s house I cannot distinguish that night
from any other, nor can I say at what hour they came, only I remember
they were in a room above-stairs, and that Mr. Brodie passed through the
shop and asked my mistress how she did to-night. Mr. Brodie was at this
time in an old-fashioned black coat, and, to the best of my knowledge, I
never saw him in the same dress before. I have seen him in other black
clothes, but they were always of a newer fashion. My master, Smith, was
upstairs with Brown and Ainslie, when Mr. Brodie came in and joined
them. I do not know when they went out, as I was employed below-stairs
in the back cellar; but I think they remained together a considerable
time before they went out. I believe they all went out together, for
when I went into the kitchen my mistress desired me to go upstairs to
put the room in order and wipe down the table, which I did, and at that
time all of them were gone. My master returned in something more than an
hour, and said he had been seeing Mr. Maclean, who is Mr. Drysdale’s
waiter. Mr. Ainslie had been in before him, but had gone out again, and
Brown came in in quest of him, and also went out again. They both
returned about ten or eleven o’clock, and Mr. Brodie then came back
likewise. Mr. Brodie had on at this time the whitish clothes which he
usually wore, and as he passed through the shop he again asked my
mistress how she did to-night. I expressed my surprise to my mistress
that Mr. Brodie should wear such a strange dress when he came in the
first time in his old black clothes, and she answered that it was his
frolick; but I took no notice to her afterwards of his having changed
his dress. They all supped in the kitchen, except Mr. Brodie, who would
not sit down, but walked up and down the room. Brown and Ainslie usually
supped at my master’s. They remained together about two hours. Mr.
Brodie went out first, and Mr.
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