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COtRT OF JUSTICIARY.
Monday came on before the Contra the trial of
Robert Wilson, lately residing in Rose-street, ac-
cused of the murder of Janet Moodie, his• wife, on
Thursday the27th of January last. The prisoner
pleaded Not Guilty. No objedion was made to
the relevancy of the libel.
It appeared fi om the proof, that on the night
libelled, a little after ten o'clock, the cry of murder
was repeatedly heard in the tenement where Wilson
resided, which alarmed 'the neighbours, and some
of the witnesses prove it came from the patina's
house. - A number of people assembled in the pas-
sage, chiefly women, hut none of them went into
the house. A gentleman who resided in the house
as a lodger, came home before eleven o'clock, hot
saw nothing remarkable, and the pannel dressed
his supper before he went to bed. Next meaning,
between seven and eight o'clock, Wilson ki.oclced
up his neighbour, saying his wife was dead. The
neighbour rose, and found Mrs. Wilson dead and
quite stiff. She got the assistance of some other
women, and the corpse was dressed. While this
was doing some marks of violence were observed
about Mrs. Wilson's face and neck, which were
more visible next day.
One of the persons asked the pannel when Mrs.
Wilson died ?He said, he did not knov. Was it
before or after the cries of murder were heard ?—He
answered, there were •no cries in his house. 'I wo
witnesses, one of whom lived above, and the other
below the pannel, swore they heard a noise in the
pannel's house during the night, as if ranging the
lire. The panne& did not call up his lodger till
nine o'clock, when he inform. I him his wife was
dead. When this gentleman left his lodgings at ten
o'clock, he was met by several people, who wished
him to make some investigation into the affair; but
this he declined, as Wilson had wrote for his wile's
brother to come up from Leith, who came that
night ; and, on account of the clamour raised about
his sister having died a violent death, called on the
Sheriff, and was desired to return next morning.
He mentioned this circumstance to Wilson, who
said he was willing to go to the Sheriff, and accord-
ingly next morning he went in company with
Moodie and two other men, first to Mr. Clark, who
was confined by indisposition, then to Mr. Davidson,
to whom Wilson said he wished that surgeons
should insped his wife's corpse, on account of the
clamour of the neighbours. Mr. Davidson referred.
him to Mr. Scot, and surgeons were accordingly
sent on the Sunday, who inspected the body, and
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gave in a report, from which it appeared, that
trom the marks on different parts of the body, and
from the state of the lungs, she had died a violent
'death, by strangulation, and to this report the two
surgeons (Or. Farquharson and Mr. Bryce) swore.
Wilson was not taken up till the Saturday after-
noon.
It also appeared from the evidence, that Mrs.
Wilson was a weakly woman, often complaining,
and very frequently in bed.—That her husband and.
she lived happily together, till lately, when she
thought he paid too much attention to another woo-
man who lived on the same floor. This she com-
municated to her lodger and a woman her neigh-
bour, which last swore that Mrs. Wilson informed
her that between and Martinmas last her husband
had twice attempted to administer poison to her,
first in a glass of toddy, and then in some water
gruel.
For the prisoner, it was proved, that he was al.
ways respelled by his neighbours, and was a per-
son of an lamest charader, and decent in his beha-
viour ;—that, after he was accused by the r.eieh.
hours, he did not abscond ; on the contrary, be took
every means in his power to get the matter investi-
gated, and went for that purpose to the Sheriff.
Dr. Monro was called for the pannel as to the re-
port of the surgeons, from whom he differed in se-
veral particulars respeding the cause of Mrs. W 4.
son's death.
The evidence was closed on both sides a little
after seven o'clock, when the Lord Advocate for
the Crown, and Mr. Campbell for the pannel, se-
verally addressed the Jury in very able speeches.
The Lord Justice Clerk summed up the whole in
his usual candid manner. At eleven o'clock the
Jury were inclosed, and on Tuesday at two o'clock,
returned a verdid, finding by a plurality of voices
the libel Not troven ; on which the pannel was dis-
missed.froin the bar.

BIRTfIS.
On Friday last, at Clapham, Mrs. T. W. Plummer, of a
daughter.
Tuesday, the Lady cf Cornelius Smith, Esq. of a sun, 4
MARRIED.
Yesterday morning, at Qtwelesquam chapel, Bath, by the
Rev. Dr. Randolph, Ralph Dutton, Esq is Miss Mutate*
Githhins, daughter of the late Joseph Chibbins, Esq. of Eid-
faech, in the kingdom of Ireland.
Saturday, at St. Paorges, I lanoyer-sq uare, Mr. 3,1 aceby of
New Rond-street, to MissGrantliant,'M Hamitic, smith.
Lac*, at Berwick-upon-Tweed, John Lowttier, tlsq. stole-
holier to the garrison, to Miss Raldell,ehlot daughter oi Tito-
alas Ridtkll, Esq. of itirreick.
Ott thy 28th ult. at Wi.ttliorti-hotise„ Edinburgh, Alex mdcr
Lang, Esq. junior, of Oye.tiiwn, Advocate, to Miss Rctreccia
Gray Denuistuun, daughter of James Dennistoutt, of Welt-
thorn.
DIED.
Latch, at Mount-House, GlatillorliViliirei aged 74, lVilliotn
Hurst, Esq. one of the Deputy Lieutenants, a,,..d iu the COM.-
miwion of the Peace fur the 6.ninties of Monmouth and Gla-
morgan, for which latter be served the office of Sheriff in 1776.
I.a.tely,. at Brit:ails, Caittaitt Lambe, of the Meledie Castle
East Indiattum.
I nday last, at his country scat at Bedford, Alderman M.
cattily.

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