le were the murderers of
Dr. Clenche. The ghost of her husband persecuted her, she said,
till Cole was arrested. Mr. Justice Dolben asked her in court for
the story, but feared that the jury would laugh at her. She
asserted the truth of her story, but, if she gave any details, they
are not reported. Cole was acquitted, and the motives of Mrs.
Milward remain obscure.

Coming to the tract which he reprints, Sir Walter says that his
notice was first drawn to it, in 1792, by Robert McIntosh, Esq., one
of the counsel in the case, which was heard in Edinburgh, June 10,
1754. Grant of Prestongrange, the Lord Advocate well known to
readers of Mr. Stevenson's Catriona, prosecuted Duncan Terig or
Clerk, and Alexander Bain Macdonald, for the murder of Sergeant
Arthur Davies on September 28, 1749. They shot him on Christie
Hill, at the head of Glenconie. There his body remained concealed
for some time, and was later found with a hat marked with his
initials, A. R. D. They are also charged with taking his watch, two
gold rings, and a purse of gold, whereby Clerk, previously
penniless, was enabled to take and stock two farms.

Donald Farquharson, in Glendee, deposes that, in June, 1750,
Alexander Macpherson sent for him, and said that he was much
troubled by the ghost of the serjeant, who insisted that he should
bury his bones, and should consult Farquharson. Donald did not
believe this quite, but trembled lest the ghost should vex him. He
went with Macpherson, who showed the body in a peat-moss. The body
was much decayed, the dress all in tatters. Donald asked Macpherson
whether the apparition denounced the murderers: he replied that the
ghost said it would have done so, had Macpherson not asked the
question. They buried the body on the spot, Donald attested that he
had seen the Serjeant's rings on the hand of Clerk's wife. For
three years the prisoners had been suspected by the country side.

Macpherson declared that he had seen an apparition of a man in blue,
who said, 'I am Serjeant Davies,' that he at first took this man for
a brother of Donald Farquharson's, that he followed the man, or
phantasm, to the door, where the spectre repeated its assertions,
and pointed out the spot where the bones lay. He found them, and
then went, as already shown, to Donald Farquharson. Between the
first vision and the burying, the ghost came to him naked, and this
led him to inter the remains. On the second appearance, the gh