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
more length to be seen in his said confession or declaration, signed by
him and the said Lord Drummore. LIKEAS he the said Alexander Bain
Macdonald did, upon the twenty-third day of January last, one thousand
seven hundred and fifty-four years, in presence of the said Judges,
acknowledge and declare, that one year, while he was Lord Bracco's
forrester, he went with the said Duncan Clerk to the Hill of Gleneye,
to search for deer, where he fired at them, but that about nine or ten
o'clock in the forenoon, Duncan Clerk went home to his father's house,
and thereafter the said Alexander Macdonald returned to his own house
in Allanquoich, where he staid all that night, not seeing the said
Duncan Clerk more that day, as is at more length to be seen in his said
confession or declaration, signed by the said Lord Drummore, he having
declared he could not write; both which confessions or declarations,
with the list of debts above specified, said to be due to him, the said
Duncan Clerk, as also, the hat mentioned to be found in summer one
thousand seven hundred and fifty in the hill of Gleneye, are all now
lodged in the hands of the Clerk to the Court of Justiciary, before
which they are to be tried, that they may see the same: AT LEAST time
and place aforesaid, the said Arthur Davies was murdered or bereaved of
his life, and they, and each of them, or one or other of them, are
guilty, actor or art and part of the said murder, aggravated as above
set furth; all which, or part thereof, being found proven by the
verdict of an Assize, before the Lords Justice General, Justice Clerk,
and Commissioners of Justiciary, he, the said Duncan Terig alias Clerk,
and Alexander Bain Macdonald, ought to be punished with the pains of
law, to the terror of others to commit the like in time coming.
(Signed) ALEX. HOME, A.D.
PURSUERS.
WILLIAM GRANT, of Prestongrange, Esq., His Majesties Advocate.
Mr PATRICK HALDANE, and
Mr ALEXANDER HOME,
both His Majesties Solicitors.
Mr ROBERT DUNDAS, Advocate.
PROCURATORS in defence.
Mr ALEXANDER LOCKHART,
Mr ROBERT M'INTOSH,
Advocates.
The Libel being openly read in Court, and the panels interrogate
thereupon, they both denied the same, and referred their defences to
their Lawiers.
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