Nicolas Cockburn, daughter of the deceast Alexander Cockburn forrester at Ormiston-hall, and relict or widow of the also deceast James Kid or Kiddie labourer or workman in Newton, in the parish of Newton and shire of Edinburgh, now prisoner in the Tolbooth of Edinburgh, you are indicted and accused, at the instance of William Grant of Prestongrange, Esq; his Majesty's Advocate ... for that whereas ... all wilful homicide or murder ... is a crime of the most heinous nature ... yet true it is, and of verity, that you ... did, upon Monday the 18th day of March last, in this present year 1754, or upon one or other of the days of that month, or of the month of February immediately preceeding, or of April immediately following ... prepare and administrate to your said husband, as for his dinner, a dish ... into which you had put or mixed a quantity of arsenick, or some other deadly poison ...
Cockburn, Nicolas.
[Edinburgh : s.n.,
1754]
Nicolas Cockburn is accused of poisoning her husband James Kid or Kiddie.
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The first sheet contains the indictment, the second lists of witnesses and jurymen.
ESTC
Crawford, J.L.L. Bibliotheca Libndesiana. Catalogue of English broadsides,
Cockburn, Nicolas
Trials (Murder)
Poisoning
Scotland Edinburgh.