n who principally carried on the jest, with the
fatal result known. The murder, as might be expected, filled every one
on board with horror; and the terror of the sailors who believed there
was a ghost on board became overwhelming. At night, whether in bed or
on watch on deck, they had great dread, it being heightened by reports
that strange noises were heard below. Not even at the end of the
voyage had the fear been overcome; for, after the ship lay moored in
the docks of Leith, two of the crew who had agreed to sleep on board
became so frightened, after their companions were paid off, that they
refused to remain in the vessel at night.

Jean Moyatos, on being brought to trial before the High Court of
Justiciary, was found to be insane; and therefore the Court ordered
him to be confined in a lunatic asylum during Her Majesty's pleasure.

A circumstance, freely spoken of within the past few years, has given
rise to a rumour that ghosts frequent the neighbourhood of the Dean
Cemetery, Edinburgh. The story is, that about three o'clock one
morning a private watchman named Clark (employed to look after a block
of buildings at Bell's Mills, Water of Leith) and his friend the
constable on the beat, were surprised, in the midst of a friendly
talk, by a tall figure--which, at least to their startled eyes, seemed
to be in white--clearing a wall and alighting on the ground close
beside them. It darted along the road towards the Dean Cemetery. As it
ran, the two men heard, or thought they heard, a clinking sound like
that made by a horse with a loose shoe. Too much frightened to watch
the movements of their visitor, Clark and his companion took to their
heels, nor thought of halting until they were a considerable distance
from the locality. Clark refused to return to his post, and some
difficulty was even experienced in getting the constable to look upon
the matter from a business point of view.

Whether the same ghost or not we cannot tell, but not long ago many in
Edinburgh became startled at rumours of a ghost being seen in various
parts of Edinburgh. On a Saturday night the movements of a ghost
caused great excitement in the Fountainbridge district, particularly
at Murdoch Terrace, Bainfield, where a large crowd collected. On the
ghost being observed, five men, armed with bludgeons, pursued it till
it reached the Dalry Cemetery, where it jumped over the wall, and was
not seen again. Bodies of men formed themselves into a det