WITNESS--Upon Sunday, the 16th of March last, the prisoner, George Smith, was carried at his own desire to the bottom of Warriston’s Close,[5] and I accompanied him, along with Alexander Williamson and James Murray, sheriff-officers. Smith there pointed out a hole in a wall where a false key, a pair of curling irons, and a small iron crow were hid, which, he said, had been used in breaking open the Excise Office; whether they were covered with earth or not I cannot say, as the prisoner himself put in his hand and brought them out. [Here a false key, a pair of curling irons, and a small iron crow were shown the witness.] These are the same articles that were so found. [The counsel for the pannels here repeated the objection against adducing the iron crow, the curling irons or toupee tongs, and dark lanthorn, as mentioned in the general objection and interlocutor before taken down.] I was present at the search that was made in Smith’s house; there was nothing found in it. I was likewise present on the day following at a search that was made in Brodie’s house and yard, when one part of a dark lanthorn was found in a necessary house, and another part in a pen where fowls or game-cocks had been kept. [Here the dark lanthorn libelled on was shown to the witness.] These are the two parts of the dark lanthorn which were so found. The prisoner, George Smith, informed me that the small crow was used in breaking into the Excise Office. Cross-examined by the DEAN OF FACULTY--Did Brown inform you, previous to your going to England, that the prisoner, William Brodie, had any concern in the robbery of the Excise Office? WITNESS--He told me that there was a gentleman whom I knew, and whom I little suspected, concerned in it, but he did not mention his name. [Sidenote: Alexander Williamson] 23. ALEXANDER WILLIAMSON, sheriff-officer in Edinburgh, called and sworn. WITNESS--I was present, along with George Williamson and James Murray, when there was a search made in the house of William Brodie, the prisoner, upon the 10th of March last, and in the course of the said search I saw a pair of pistols wrapped in a black stocking taken from under the earth in the fireplace of a shed in his yard. [Here the pistols libelled on were shown to the witness wrapped in a green cloth.] These are the pistols, and they were found in that green cloth. [The counsel for the pannels here repeated the objection against adducing the pistols, as mentioned in the general objection and interlocutor before taken down.] Cross-examined by the DEAN OF FACULTY--How came you to say that they were found in a black stocking? WITNESS--I saw a black stocking on the table, and that misled me. The DEAN OF FACULTY--You are to speak from what you know, sir, and not from what you see on the table. WITNESS--I am certain that it was in a green cloth they were found. [Sidenote: James Murray] 24. JAMES MURRAY, sheriff-officer in Edinburgh, called in and sworn.