Narratives From Criminal Trials in Scotland 2
Narratives From Criminal Trials in Scotland 2
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Norman Macleod^ some- time minister of Kilmuir," when he gives such an in- stance of the second-sight as must have necessarily connected itself with judicial proceedings, carries it across the Atlantic, though, in other instances of second-sight, his own family is fertile enough. He tells us how, in the year 1745, Jonathan Easton, of Newport, in Rhode Island, left his housekeeper in charge of a store of rum. There was an Indian girl * See a Treatiae on the Second-Sight, Dreams, and Appari- tioD...S, with seTenl instances soffidentlj attested, and an Ap- pendix, && Edinhoxi^ 1768.
112 8PECTKAL AND BBEAM TESTIKONT.
who wanted some of the liquor^ and, being refused, she murdered the housekeeper^ and threw her into a draw-well. After his return home, "as Mr.
Easton was in bed, he saw an apparition, between sleep and awake, informing him the Indian girl had murdered his servant, and thrown her into the draw-well, of which he at first did not take notice ; but the scene being thrice repeated, he considered there might be something" in it ; whereupon he called one of the town council, and both going to the well, found the body of the girl, and thereupon seized the Indian maid, who immediately confessed the murder, for which she was executed."* Among the multitudinous superstitious stories which the historian Wodrow preserved in his private memorandum-book, there are some which, if they were seriously believed, should have found their way into the records of the Court of Justiciary .f • Treatise on the Second-Sight, p.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Norman Macleod^ some- time minister of Kilmuir," when he gives such an in- stance of the second-sight as must have necessarily connected itself with judicial proceedings, carries it across the Atlantic, though, in other instances of second-sight, his own family is fertile enough. He tells us how, in the year 1745, Jonathan Easton, of Newport, in Rhode Island, left his housekeeper in charge of a store of rum. There was an Indian girl * See a Treatiae on the Second-Sight, Dreams, and Appari- tioD...S, with seTenl instances soffidentlj attested, and an Ap- pendix, && Edinhoxi^ 1768.
112 8PECTKAL AND BBEAM TESTIKONT.
who wanted some of the liquor^ and, being refused, she murdered the housekeeper^ and threw her into a draw-well. After his return home, "as Mr.
Easton was in bed, he saw an apparition, between sleep and awake, informing him the Indian girl had murdered his servant, and thrown her into the draw-well, of which he at first did not take notice ; but the scene being thrice repeated, he considered there might be something" in it ; whereupon he called one of the town council, and both going to the well, found the body of the girl, and thereupon seized the Indian maid, who immediately confessed the murder, for which she was executed."* Among the multitudinous superstitious stories which the historian Wodrow preserved in his private memorandum-book, there are some which, if they were seriously believed, should have found their way into the records of the Court of Justiciary .f • Treatise on the Second-Sight, p.
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