Star.
London, England, 1817-09-13 00:00:00

EIMNBURcIr.

RICE COURT OF /USTIC/ARY, SEPTEMBER S.
R. Dingwall, servant to T. Dudgeon. a taeksman,
at Festa, in the county of Ross, was put to the bar,
accused of attempting to commit murder by means
of poison. The indictment stated, that on the 18th
of June, Dingwall applied to Mr..l. G. Robertson,
a surgeon. in Tame, to furnish him with poison, in
order to get rid of his wife, promising him a reward
for the same ; that the said Surgeon having, with
the intention of more effectually counteracting the
prisoner's criminal intention, appeared to comply with
his wishes—visited his wile—told her that medicines
should be administered to her, which he would de-
liver to her husband ; desired the prisoner to call at
his shop ; questioned him, if he was determined to
poison his wife, and the prisoner having answered
him in the affirmative, the Surgeon therefore made
up four mull doses of arsenic, and said, 44 This is
arsenic, rank poison, which will kill her in a short
time ;" to which the prisoner did reply, " That will
do, then ;" and the Surgeon having folded up the
said doses of arsenic, did deliver them to the prisoner,
Who did nickedly and ftleniously receive the same,
with the criminal purpose of administering the same
to his wife, and thereby putting her to death.—Mr.
Hoye, Counsel for the prisoner, before allowing his
' client to plead to the indictment, stated certain otjec-
lions to the relevancy. The Counsel for the Crown
stated, that they were aware that this was a new care,
and wished the relevancy to he argued in inform itions,
which were ordered, and the prisoner re-committed.
The Court next procee.led to the trial of Janet
Dougler, indicted and accused of taksimet, or man-
stealing. The indictment set f firth, that the prisoner
did, upon Monday, tyre 12th day of May last, nick-
edly steal, and barbarously carry away, Margaret
Reach, a child betwixt three and four years of age,
the daughter of J. Reach, mason, at King's StaLles,
in the parish of St. Cuthbert's, Edinburgh, from the
house of her father, or from some place in the vici-
nity thereof; aid being pursued soon after the said
inhuman theft was perpetrated, she was apprehended
at the colliery of Halbeath, in die county of Fl;e,
upon Wednesday, the 14th day of the said month ut
May, having the child in her custody. The evi-
dence being gone through, the Jury, %about leaving
the box, returned a verdict of Guilty ; and the priso-
ner was sentenced to suffer the punishment of death.
in Edinburgh, on Wednesday, the 15th day of Octo-
ber next. The prisoner is a young woman, apparently
about SO yeast of age.
The Court then proceeded to the trial of R. Reid,
chimney-sweeper, accused of the murder of J. Fraser,
olio* Thomson, who, having stuck last in a vent, en
Albany-street Chapel, was, by him and J. Rae,
' pulled by the leis, by a rope fastened to them. until
be died. The facts of this case were fully before
our Readers in the trial of Rae, the principal culprit,
who was sentenced to fourteen years transportation.
The prisoner, Reid, pleaded guilty to the extent of
culpable homicide, and to the facts stated in his de.
' claratioa before the Sheriff.—The Court was of opi-,
nion, that there was a marked difference betwixt the
case of the prisoner and that of kse ; the latter had
been La more active ; and a charge also lay against
him, and which had been proved, of malice againat
the boy, and extreme cruelty and ill treatment on
former occasions, amounting circa to atrocity, of
making him eat his own excrement.—The Loan
Juersee CLIME. alter a suitable admonition. .sen,
tamed the prisoner to seven years transportation be-
yond the seas.