as she shall answer to God. This deposition signed by
the above interpreter.
(Signed) DUNCAN CAMPBELL.
HEW DALRYMPLE.
JOHN GROWAR, in Inverey, aged fifty years and upwards, a widower; who
being solemnly sworn, purged of partial council, and interrogate,
Depones, That upon the 28th of September, 1749, the deponent having
gone to a glen called Glenconie, to bring home his horses to lead in
the corns, he met with Serjeant Davies, of whom he had some
acquaintance before; and he had at that time a good deal of
conversation with him, particularly with relation to a tartan coat
which the Serjeant had observed the deponent to drop, and after
strictly enjoining him not to use it again, dismissed him, instead of
making him prisoner: That the deponent went home with his horses, and
saw no more of the Serjeant, who was alone; and that their meeting was
about an hour after sunrising, to the best of the deponent's knowledge:
That some time thereafter, about four years ago, he was told by
Alexander Macpherson _alias_ M'Gillies, a former witness, that the
Serjeant's ghost had appeared to him, M'Gillies, and had desired him to
bury his, the Serjeant's, bones, and to bring Donald Farquharson, also
a former witness, along with him; but M'Gillies at that time did not
mention the place where the bones were to be found, but afterwards told
the deponent that the Serjeant's bones were found in the place to which
the ghost had directed him; and one day the said M'Gillies and the
deponent being in the hill together, he, M'Gillies, pointed to him the
place where they were found, which was not far from the place in which
he had formerly met Serjeant Davies, upon the 28th of September
aforesaid; and that two years ago, in labouring time, the said
M'Gillies told him that the said ghost came to M'Gillies's master's
house, and the door flung open, and took M'Gillies out of the house,
and told him that the panels had been his murderers. Depones, That
about two years ago he had a conversation with M'Gillies, who told him,
that one day coming from the hill with Duncan Clerk, the panel, then
his master, and another time when in bed, he had a conversation with
the said Duncan concerning Serjeant Davies's murder, and all the answer
Duncan made was, What can you say of an unfortunate man? Depones, That
about ten or eleven years ago, Duncan Clerk, the panel, was said to
have stolen some sheep from one Ale
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