Trial of Duncan Terig, alias Clerk, and Alexander Bane Macdonald: for the Murder of Arthur Davis, Sergeant in General Guise's; Regiment of Foot — John Shaqi
Trial of Duncan Terig, alias Clerk, and Alexander Bane Macdonald: for the Murder of Arthur Davis, Sergeant in General Guise's; Regiment of FootScott, Walter
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Trial of Duncan Terig, alias Clerk, and Alexander Bane Macdonald: for the Murder of Arthur Davis, Sergeant in General Guise's; Regiment of Foot
believe at this day, that he was murdered; for that he and she lived
together in as great amity and love as any couple could do that ever
were married, and that he never was in use to stay away a night from
her, and that it was not possible he could be under any temptation to
desert, as he was much esteemed and beloved by all his officers, and
had good reason to believe he would have been promoted to the rank of
serjeant-major upon the first vacancy: Depones, That when her husband
went away from Dubrach on the morning of the twenty-eighth of September
aforesaid, he was dressed in a blue surtout coat, with a stripped silk
vest, and teiken breeches and brown stockings: That he had in his purse
fifteen guineas and a half in gold, a crown piece and three shillings
in silver, his silver watch in his pocket, with a silver seal at it,
his silver buckles in his shoes, and his silver buttons on his
waistcoat, and the above mentioned rings on his fingers; and being
asked how she came to know all these things were on him or about him
when he went away as aforesaid? Depones, That she was privy and knew
every thing that related to his money; and the night before the said
twenty-eighth of September, the serjeant from Braemar had come to
Dubrach, and in the deponent's presence had given some money which was
gold to Serjeant Davies, who gave him silver that he had by him for it,
to pay the party; and upon occasion of this, she saw the quantity of
gold above mentioned, which was in her husband's possession, and that
she saw the vest with the buttons and rings on his fingers, and also
the watch, before he went away, he having in her presence put on the
teiken drawers above mentioned, desired from her somewhat to keep the
watch dry, upon which she gave him a piece of cloth, the said drawers
being a little damp, in which he wrapt it, and put it into his pocket:
Depones, That he had dark mouse-coloured hair, tied up with a black
silk ribband behind, and wore a hat with a silver lace and silver
button, marked with the letters D. A. on the outside of the crown of
the hat: And the deponent verily believes, that the hat now shown to
her, and above referred to, is the hat he took out with him: Depones,
That he wore that day a pair of brogues which he had bespoke to be made
so as they could fit buckles, and not to be tied with latches, conform
to the common use of that country: That these brogues the deponent saw
when they were first brought home from Glenshee: Depones, That a gun
now exhibited and shown to the deponent, is the gun which her husband,
Serjeant Davies, received in a present from Lieutenant Brydon, of the
same regiment with him, and the gun which he always used when he went
a-shooting, and which he carried out with him in the morning of the
twenty-eighth of September, one thousand seven hundred and forty-nine
aforesaid: That the stock of the gun is altered about the butt, and a
plate that was on the butt-end is taken away, and the wood pared, but
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