Description
4to, pp. 6. Extracted from a volume. Lightly toned and soiled, faint dampmark to upper corner, final leaf detached. Ink lines to List of Witnesses.
[Indictment against Andrew Macghie for Armed Robbery.]
- [Edinburgh]: [s.n.] 1770
- Not in ESTC.
£95
Notes
A printed indictment against Andrew Macghie of Edinburgh for armed robbery. Macghie is charged with purchasing a pistol under guise of intending to travel to Glasgow, but instead using it to assault and rob James Ferrier, Writer, and Patrick Graeme, Advocate, in separate instances near the Canongate in December of 1769. It concludes: 'All which... being found proven by the verdict of an assize... you ought to be punished with the pains of law, to the terror of others to commit the like crimes in all time coming'. There is then appended a list of witnesses, beginning with the victims but stretching to over two dozen further names, and a list of the members of the assize (i.e. jury, in Scots law), among which are a number of booksellers and bankers, including Sir William Forbes, from whose collection this copy originates.
