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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
·
Andrew Lang
143
The
prisoners
were
discharged
on
13th
September.
On
5th
March,
1830,
they
were
tried
at
the
Buckingham
Lent
Assizes,
were
found
guilty
and
were
hanged,
protesting
their
innocence,
on
8th
March,
1830.
"In
the
report
of
Mrs.
Edden's
evidence
(at
the
Assizes)
no
mention
is
made
of
the
vision."
{144}
Here
end
our
ghosts
in
courts
of
justice;
the
following
ghost
gave
evidence
of
a
murder,
or
rather,
confessed
to
one,
but
was
beyond
the
reach
of
human
laws.
This
tale
of
1730
is
still
current
in
Highland
tradition.
It
has,
however,
been
improved
and
made
infinitely
more
picturesque
by
several
generations
of
narrators.
As
we
try
to
be
faithful
to
the
best
sources,
the
contemporary
manuscript
version
is
here
reprinted
from
The
Scottish
Standard-Bearer,
an
organ
of
the
Scotch
Episcopalians
(October
and
November,
1894).
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