Page:Life of David Haggart who was executed at Edinburgh, 18th July, 1821, for the murder of the Dumfries jailor.pdf/6

 pocket of £23. Haggart called for the waiter, and appeared in a violent passion, paid for a bottle of porter, abused him for putting them into such company, and immediately left the house. They departed next morning, and went to Langholm fair, where they took from a sheep farmer, £100, in ten pound notes, and £10, in 20 shilling, notes—About half an hour after, they saw John Richardson a Dumfries Officer running about, but he did not notice them. They took a post-chaise, and went to Annan, and next day took the Coach for Carlisle.

On other nights they got 2 gold watches; they took about £70. in whole during their stay in Newcastle. They then went to Durham and at night broke a lonely house on the road to York; they got £20, here; they were apprehended for this act, tried, and found Guilty, and put back to prison to be brought up for sentence of death at the end of the assizes.—They broke the prison that night, but Haggart only escaped; he provided himself with a rope-ladder, and gave the saw to