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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
·
Andrew Lang
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All
this
was
in
1750,
but
Clerk
and
Macdonald
were
not
arrested
till
September,
1753.
They
were
then
detained
in
the
Tolbooth
of
Edinburgh
on
various
charges,
as
of
wearing
the
kilt,
till
June,
1754,
when
they
were
tried,
Grant
of
Prestongrange
prosecuting,
aided
by
Haldane,
Home
and
Dundas,
while
Lockhart
and
Mackintosh
defended.
It
was
proved
that
Clerk's
wife
wore
Davies's
ring,
that
Clerk,
after
the
murder,
had
suddenly
become
relatively
rich
and
taken
a
farm,
and
that
the
two
men,
armed,
were
on
the
hill
near
the
scene
of
the
murder
on
28th
September,
1749.
Moreover,
Angus
Cameron
swore
that
he
saw
the
murder
committed.
His
account
of
his
position
was
curious.
He
and
another
Cameron,
since
dead,
were
skulking
near
sunset
in
a
little
hollow
on
the
hill
of
Galcharn.
There
he
had
skulked
all
day,
"waiting
for
Donald
Cameron,
who
was
afterwards
hanged,
together
with
some
of
the
said
Donald's
companions
from
Lochaber".
No
doubt
they
were
all
honest
men
who
had
been
"out,"
and
they
may
well
have
been
on
Cluny's
business
of
conveying
gold
from
the
Loch
Arkaig
hoard
to
Major
Kennedy
for
the
prince.
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