at her husband never returned; that she has never met
with any body that saw him after the party returned from the foresaid
place, excepting the corporal that that day commanded the party from
Glenshee, who told her that, after the forementioned party from Dubrach
had gone away from the foresaid appointed place, Serjeant Davies came
up to him all alone, upon which the corporal told him, he thought it
was very unreasonable in him to venture upon the hill by himself, as
for his part he was not without fear even when he had his party of four
men along with him; to which Serjeant Davies answered, that when he had
his arms and ammunition about him, he did not fear any body he could
meet: Depones, That her husband, Serjeant Davies, made no secret of his
having the gold above mentioned, but upon the many different occasions
he had to pay and receive money, he used to take out his purse and show
the gold; and that even when he was playing with children, he would
frequently take out his purse and rattle it for their diversion, from
which it was generally known by all the neighbourhood that the serjeant
was worth money, and carried it about him: Depones, That from the
second day after the serjeant and party went from Dubrach as aforesaid,
when the deponent found he did not return, she did believe, and does
believe at this day, that he was murdered; for that he and she lived
together in as great amity and love as any couple could do that ever
were married, and that he never was in use to stay away a night from
her, and that it was not possible he could be under any temptation to
desert, as he was much esteemed and beloved by all his officers, and
had good reason to believe he would have been promoted to the rank of
serjeant-major upon the first vacancy: Depones, That when her husband
went away from Dubrach on the morning of the twenty-eighth of September
aforesaid, he was dressed in a blue surtout coat, with a stripped silk
vest, and teiken breeches and brown stockings: That he had in his purse
fifteen guineas and a half in gold, a crown piece and three shillings
in silver, his silver watch in his pocket, with a silver seal at it,
his silver buckles in his shoes, and his silver buttons on his
waistcoat, and the above mentioned rings on his fingers; and being
asked how she came to know all these things were on him or about him
when he went away as aforesaid? Depones, That she was privy and knew
every thing that related to his money;