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
Davies, and the corporal told him that he had parted with the Serjeant
the day before at the Water of Benow; the Serjeant, after that, was
going to the hill to get a shot of the deer; which Water of Benow is
about half a mile's distance from the place where the patrolling
parties used to meet: Depones, That the prisoner Clerk was a common
dealer in buying of sheep and cattle; and the deponent has seen him
both buying and paying the price, and his father was reputed one of the
richest tenants in Inverey's grounds. _Causa scientiae patet_; and this
is truth, as he shall answer to God.
(Signed) DONALD FARQUHARSON.
P. GRANT.
ALEXANDER M'PHERSON _alias_ M^CGILLAS, in Inverey, being solemnly
sworn, purged of malice and partial council, and interrogate, aged
twenty-six years, unmarried, Depones, That in summer one thousand seven
hundred and fifty, he found lying in a moss bank in the hill of
Christie, a human body, at least the bones of a human body, of which
the flesh was mostly consumed, and he believed it to be the body of
Serjeant Davies, because it was reported in the country that he had
been murdered in that hill the year before. That when he first found
this body, there was a bit of blue cloth upon it pretty entire, which
he took to be what is called English cloth; he also found the hair of
the deceased, which was of a dark mouse colour, and tied about with a
black ribbon: That he also observed some pieces of a stripped stuff,
and found also lying there a pair of brogues, which had been made with
latches for buckles, which had been cut away by a knife: That he, by
help of his staff, brought out the body, and laid it upon plain ground,
in doing whereof some of the bones were separated one from another:
Depones, That for some days he was in a doubt what to do, but meeting
with John Growar in the moss, he told John what he had found, and John
bid him tell nothing of it, otherways he would complain of the deponent
to John Shaw of Daldownie, upon which the deponent resolved to prevent
Growar's complaint, and go and tell Daldownie of it himself; and which
having accordingly done, Daldownie desired him to conceal the matter,
and go and bury the body privately, as it would not be carried to a
kirk unkent, and that the same might hurt the country, being under the
suspicion of being a rebel country: Depones, That some few days
thereafter, he acquainted Donald Farquharson, the preceding witness, of
his having seen the body of a dead man in the hill, which he took to be
the body of Serjeant Davies: That Farquharson at first doubted the
truth of his information, till the deponent having told him that a few
nights before when he was in bed, a vision appeared to him as of a man
clad in blue, who told the deponent, "I am Serjeant Davies;" but that
before he told him so, the deponent had taken the said vision at first
appearance to be a real living man, a brother of Donald Farquharson's:
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