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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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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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    pannel was gone into her miftrefs’s room : That Upon this the deponent went up to her miftrefs’s room to fee into the truth of it; and when (lie went id to the room, fhe obferved Lieutenant Ogilvie the panne] going from the bediide towards the window, in his night gown : That Ihe is fure her mi ft refs was then in bed in that room, as ihe was not got up by that time in the morn¬ ing, nor had Ihe come down ftairs, nor was ihe in the only other room above ftairs, which the deponent immediately went and looked into. Depones, That at fevefal other times, when the deponent had ccca- fion to be fitting at her wheel in the kitchen, which is immediately under Mrs Ogilvie the pannel’s room, and where one can eafi.lv hear any noife, even to a laigh word, that is made in Mrs Ogilvie’s room, the deponent heard the feet of the two pannels in the room, and fhuffling at the fide of the bed : That the reafon why ihe believed it to be the feet of the pan¬ nels which ilie heard there, was, that ihe faw them go tip together to that room juft before fhe heard the noife as aforefaid. Depones, That ihe believes Lieu¬ tenant Ogilvie the pannel was put away by the late Eaftmiln from the houfe, upon Eaftmiln’s fufpicion, that the Lieutenant was too great with Mrs Ogilvie the pannel : That her reafon for believing fo is, that about the time Lieutenant Ogilvie went away, the de¬ ponent, as ihe was going to her bed in the kitchen, overheard the. late Eaftmiln, when he was- going to bed with his wife in the room above, fay to his wife. That flie was too great with Lieutenant Ogilvie the pannel; and that they- were as frequent together as the bell was to ring on Sunday, Depones, That Aim Sampfon was in the kitchen at the fame time ; and the deponent believes fhe heard what palled betwixt Eaft- niiln and his wife, as aforefaid, and the deponent challenged her for liftening. Depones, That after Lieutenant Ogilvie the pannel had left the houfe. of F Eaftmiln,