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
ELIZABETH MACDONALD, in Tulloch of Invercauld, aged twenty-eight years,
unmarried, solemnly sworn, purged and interrogate by the sworn
interpreter aforesaid, Depones, That the day before she heard Serjeant
Davies was amissing, she saw Duncan Clerk, the panel, at the shearers
of Gleney, but did not observe from whence he came: That she does not
remember that he had either a gun or a plaid, but thinks that he had a
short blue coat upon him, and that Gleney is a mile farther up the
water towards the hill than Inverey: That when she saw the said panel
it was before dinner, which they took early that day, being betwixt
twelve and one; and that Duncan Keir, the preceding witness, was one of
the said shearers; and that Gleney is about a mile from Glenconie.
_Causa scientiae patet._ And this is the truth, as she shall answer to
God. This deposition signed by the said sworn interpreter.
(Signed) DUNCAN CAMPBELL.
HEW DALRYMPLE.
The Lords Commissioners of Justiciary fine and amerciate Ronald
Macdonald, brother to James Macdonald in Allanquoich, and Alexander
Macintosh _alias_ Reoch, now servant to Thomas Gordon of Fetterletter,
in Strathaven, and each of them, in the sum of one hundred merks Scots
money, for their not appearing this day and place, to bear leal and
soothfast witnessing, in so far as they knew, or should be asked at
them, anent the said panels, Duncan Terig _alias_ Clerk, and
Alexander Bain Macdonald, their guiltiness of the crime of murder
mentioned in the said indictment, raised at the instance of his
Majesty's advocate against them thereanent, as they, who were lawfully
cited for that effect, thrice called, and not compearing.
(Signed) GILB. ELLIOT, I.P.D.
The Lords ordain the assize forthwith to inclose in the Exchequer-Room,
and to return their verdict against six o'clock in the afternoon
to-morrow, in this place; and ordain the haill fifteen then to be
present, and the panels to be carried back to prison.
_CURIA JUSTICIARIA S. D. N. Regis tenta in Nova Sessionis Domo
Burgi de Edinburgh, Duodecimo die Mensis Junij, 1754, per
honorabiles viros Carolum Areskine de Alva, Justiciarium Clericum,
Dominum Gilbertum Elliot de Minto, Magistros Alexandrum Fraser de
Strichen, Patricium Grant de Elchies, et Hugonem Dalrymple de
Drummore, Commissionarios Justiciarios dict. S. D. N. Regis._
_Curia legittime affirmata._
INTRAN.
DUNCAN TERIG _alias_ CLERK, and ALEXANDER BAIN MACDONALD,--Panels.
Indicted and accused as in the former Sederunt.
The persons who past upon the assize of the said panels, returned
their verdict, in presence of the saids Lords, whereof the tenor
follows:
AT EDINBURGH, the twelfth day of June, one thousand seven hundred
and fifty-four years.
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