Page:Life of David Haggart who was executed at Edinburgh, 18th July, 1821, for the murder of the Dumfries jailor.pdf/20

 experienced great kindness from the officers. On their approach to Dumfries, thousands of people met them with torches in their hands. From Dumfries he was conveyed to Edinburgh jail, and placed under the care of Captain Sibbald, who he said was the kindest jailor in the world. He was tried on the 11th of June, and the Jury gave in a verdict of guilty; when the Judge was passing the sentence, he said he grew dizzy and gasped for breath; he was carried back to jail, where he behaved in the most penitent manner, and wrote a history of his life for behoof of his father, from which this narrative is a faithful extract.