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
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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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    . C <4 ] where he continued till about a fortnight before the faid Thomas Ogilvie’s death : That during Lieute¬ nant Ogilvie’s refidence at Eaftmiln, fhe had oc- • cafion to obferve too great a fondnefs betwixt the faid Lieutenant and Mrs Ogilvie the pannels, which proceeded even to indecencies, fhe having frequently ieen them killing and hugging each other in and about the houfe of Eaftmiln : ihat the late Thomas Ogilvie ufed frequently to be from home, particularly about his workmen : That during his abfence die has fre¬ quently obferved the two pannels retire by themfelves to the upper rooms of the houfe, both the carter and wefter room, when fhe believed there was nobody in thefe rooms but themfelves. Depones, That one nights about fun-fet, during the time aforefaid, the deponent having occafion to ipeak to Mrs Ogilvie the pannel, about what ale the deponent fhouid bring from the Kirkton, the deponent went up ftairs to the eaft room, ^ where the Lieutenant ufed to lie, to fee for her mif~ trefs : That fhe found the door of the room open ; and upon looking into the room, fhe obferved the two pannels lying in the bed in which Lieutenant Ogilvie tilually lay : That fhe fufpe&ed them to be there, by hearing them breathing : That upon difcovering them, fhe immediately turned back without fpeaking to them, and run down to the firft flatt of the flair, where fhe ftopt, and called up t© her miftrefs to fee if fhe was in the forefaid room, upon which her mirtrefs aniwer- ed her from that room, as fhe apprehended it, that . fhe was there : That Lieutenant Ogilvie the pannel likevvife fpoke to her from the fame place at that time. Depones, That at another time, and before the time above mentioned, and foon after Mrs Ogilvie the pan- nel’s marriage with the late E'aftmiln, and while the late Eaftmiln was at Dunfinnan, fhe was told pretty early in a morning by Anne Sampfon, a neighbour-fer- rant, that fhe, Ann, believed Lieutenant Ogilvie the pannel