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
LAUCHLAN M'INTOSH, in Inverey, aged near thirty years, unmarried,
solemnly sworn, purged of malice and partial council, examined and
interrogate by the sworn interpreter aforesaid, Depones, That the
panel, Duncan Clerk's father, his house is within less than a quarter
of a mile of the deponent's house: That upon the afternoon of that day
in which Serjeant Davies was amissing, as he thinks, or at least the
afternoon of the day following, he cannot be altogether positive which,
he saw Duncan Clerk, panel, come from the hill to his father's house,
with a gun in his hand, and a sort of grey plaid about him: That he
does not remember that he saw him about his father's house before that
time in the afternoon of that day. _Causa scientiae patet._ And this is
the truth, as he shall answer to God.
(Signed) LAUCHLAN M'INTOSH.
GILB. ELLIOT.
JEAN DAVIDSON, spouse to Gregor Keir, in Inverey, aged thirty years,
married; who being solemnly sworn, and purged of malice and partial
council, by the sworn interpreter aforesaid, Depones, That she lived in
the same town with Duncan Clerk, the panel's father, who is now dead:
That the evening of the day upon which Serjeant Davies was first
amissing, she saw Duncan Clerk, the panel, return from the hill to his
father's house about sun-setting, having a plaid upon him, with a good
deal of red in it, but whether he had a gun in his hand the deponent
did not observe: That Duncan Clerk's father was that day working among
his corns; and the deponent did not see the said Duncan about the town
till the evening, as above deponed upon. And further depones, being
interrogate for the panel, That when she first saw Duncan Clerk, she
was among the corns with his father a little below the town, and that
Duncan was about a gun-shot from her, coming towards his father's house
from the hill, and that he came near to the place where she was with
his father. _Causa scientiae patet._ And this is the truth, as she shall
answer to God. And this deposition is signed by the foresaid sworn
interpreter.
(Signed) DUNCAN CAMPBELL.
ALEX^R FRASER.
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