The trial of Katharine Nairn [Ogilvie] and Patrick Ogilvie, for the crimes of incest and murder [of Thomas Ogilvie]. Containing the whole procedure of the High Court of Justiciary; upon the 5th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th and 16th days of August 1765 / [Katharine Nairn Ogilvie].

Nairne, Katharine.

Date:: 1765

Credit: The trial of Katharine Nairn [Ogilvie] and Patrick Ogilvie, for the crimes of incest and murder [of Thomas Ogilvie]. Containing the whole procedure of the High Court of Justiciary; upon the 5th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th and 16th days of August 1765 / [Katharine Nairn Ogilvie]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$* [ ] low room, and heard them enter the Lieutenant’s room, move towards the bed ; and then the deponent hftened at the flair, and heard the fame motions re- * , : liiat> upon1 the Tuefday and the Wednefday, he heara thfm a£ain ^tire together to that room, and move towards the bed; bun fhe did not any of thefe two daysgo to the flair. Depones, That fhe told the deceafed Mr Ogdvie of Eaftmiln’s mother, the depo¬ nent s aunt, what fhe had heard and feen ; this (he told her Sunday night, Monday, and Tuefday. De- P0lJ1es,..T]v‘\t flie .hearci afterwards from the deceafed Eaftmiln, that his mother had faid to him, that the panne , Mrs Ogdvie, was troublefome to the other pannel the Lieutenant: That, on occafion of this in¬ formation, there was ill blood and high words between the two brothers; and at length Eaftmiln deceafed ordered the Lieutenant out of his houfe; and that tins happened upon the Thurfday immediately fubfe- quent to the Sunday aforefaid. And further depones, Ihat upon the Sunday, Eaftmiln, as lhe believes, was at Gienkslry ; That the other days he was at home; ut as he went to vilit his workmen every morning, when the pannels went together to the Lieutenapt’s room as aforefaid, it was at the times that Eaftmiln. was out with his workmen. Depones, That Lieute¬ nant Ogdvie left the houfe of Eaftmiln about three o dock, after noon of the Thurfday aforefaid: That, upon his leaving it, the other pannel, Mrs Ogdvie, went up to the room which had been his, and threw i eric If down upon a bed in that room, different from the alcove bed-above mentioned, and there fell a-tear- mg and crying; and that, when her hu’fband came to the room, fhe ordered him to go out of it; That Eaftmiln, upon that occafion, told his wife, that her conduct was improper, and that die would ruin her reputation, by intermeddling in the differences be¬ twixt him and lus brother. And being further inter¬ rogate, depones, ft hat, before the Sunday above men¬ tioned, the deponent has frequentlyTeen improper fa¬ miliarities between the two pannels; particularly, fhe . - has /$