several yards: Depones, That Macpherson
told him that when he first found the bones, which was about eight days
before, that they were lying farther off, under a bank, and he drew
them out with his staff: Depones, That they also found a pair of
brogues, which appeared to the deponent to be of the same kind with
what the Serjeant wore, only with this difference, that the taggs for
the buckles were cut away, which seemed to have been done with a knife:
Depones, That he asked Macpherson whether the apparition had told him
by whom he had been murdered: That Macpherson said he had asked the
question, and the apparition answered, that if he had not asked him, he
would have power to have told him: That the deponent also asked him if
the apparition had given him any orders about carrying his bones to a
churchyard: Depones, That Macpherson said he had given no answer, and
thereupon they agreed to bury him in that place; and accordingly they
dug a hole in the moss, with the shaft of a shovel that Macpherson had,
and buried the bones there, and laid a part of the blue cloth under the
bones, and a part of it above it, and covered all with some turfs that
they had tore up from the moss; and being showed a fusee, depones, that
one day the Serjeant and the deponent went out a-deer-hunting, and the
Serjeant, in loading his gun, which was either a French or a Spanish
piece, happened to put in a ball that was too large for the bore, so
that he could not, with the ram-rod, drive it down to the powder: That
the deponent advised him to go to his father's sheilling to get a
stronger ram-rod; but the Serjeant, being impatient to go about his
diversion, fired the fusee, and cracked the barrel about the middle;
and having examined the fusee now produced, observed that the barrel is
cracked about the same place, and, so far as appears to him, may be the
same barrel: Depones, That there appears to be some alterations made
upon the stock since the Serjeant had it: That the but was thicker than
it is now, and clad with iron at the end; and there was also another
ring for the keeping of the ram-rod, other than that now shown him:
Depones, That the gun was shown to the deponent on Wednesday last by
James Growar, son to Donald Growar in Glendee, who told him that he
found it in the hill in sight of Glenconie: Depones, That after
Serjeant Davies was killed or amissing as aforesaid, he saw yellow
rings on Elizabeth Downie's fingers, spouse to the prisone