Issobell Fergussone

Issobell Fergussone ko Isobel Ferguson (ta mutu a ranar 6 ga watan Agustan shekara ta 1661) mace ce ta Scotland wacce ta furta maita a Dalkeith, Edinburgh a cikin shekara ta 1661. 

Fergussone ya musanta duk zarge-zargen da aka yi mata kuma ya nemi a yi mata allura, don kokarin tabbatar da rashin laifi. Koyaya, yayin da suke tsage ta a ranar 5 ga Yulin 1661 sun yi nasara wajen gano "alama ta shaidan", wanda ya kai ta ga furta. Sakamakon wannan fitina ya haifar da kisa (an rataye ta kuma an ƙone jikinta) a ranar 6 ga watan Agusta 1661.

 Rayuwa ta farko 
Ba a san abubuwa da yawa game da ita ba kafin a yi mata shari'a, duk da haka ta zauna a Liberton Parish sannan ta koma Newbattle, Dalkeith kuma ta auri wani mutum mai suna Baxter kuma tana da ɗa mai suna Robert Baxter . 

 Zarge-zarge 
Zarge-zargen da aka yi mata sun hada da barazanar magana a kan maƙwabtanta da ɗanta. Da alama ta yi barazanar makwabtanta tana gaya musu cewa za su zama matalauta, sannan doki ya yi rashin lafiya kuma sun zama talauci. Ta kuma yi jayayya da ɗanta kuma ta gaya wa matarsa cewa zai sami mummunar dawowa gida, a lokacin da ya dawo ya yi rashin lafiya ya mutu. An kuma zarge ta da zina da karuwanci.

 Jarabawar 
An yi shari'ar Fergussone a ranar 3 ga Yuli 1661 kuma an same ta da laifi. Ba wai kawai an tuhume ta da maita ba, tana da wasu zarge-zargen zina da lalata saboda ganawa da shaidan da ta bayyana yayin da take ƙarƙashin tambayoyi. 

Ta bayyana shaidan a matsayin mutumin da ake kira William Twedie, a cikin baƙar fata wanda ya ba ta safofin hannu biyu. Ta musanta cewa shaidan ya kwanta tare da ita. Akwai 2 William Twedies da ta sani, mai gidansa da ɗan'uwansa. Wannan ya haifar da rikice-rikice. Ta furta cewa tana da alaƙa da ɗan'uwan da ya tsere daga baya. An yi imanin cewa ta sadu da shaidan a ko dai ita ko gidan William Tweedie (tsakanin Skloutford da Liberton Road), a gonarta, ko kusa da gadar a bakin tekun John Ballingtyne. William Tweedie koyaushe yana nan a tarurrukanta da shaidan.[1]￼

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