Page:Life of David Haggart who was executed at Edinburgh, 18th July, 1821 for the murder of the Dumfries jailor (2).pdf/12

 12 the Nith to the public road, and never did a fox double the hounds in better style. He then made for Annan, and getting on a mile or two on the Carlisle road, he went into a belt of planting. Watching an opportunity, he dived into a hay stack, and lay there till next day at two o'clock in the afternoon, when he heard a woman ask a boy, if that lad was taken who had broke out of Dumfries jail; the boy an- swered no, but the jailor died last night. The pinigaring this, Haggart lay insensible for a good while he left the stack, and see- ing a scarecrow in the field, he took some te of the old clothes and put them on to dis- guise himself. On the wednesday night he slept in a hay loft; in the morning two men were feeding their horses, and he over- heard -them speaking about him ; he start- ed for Carlisle, and then to Newcastle, here he stopped for some days, and along with one Fleming, picked L 22, in the of market from a man: here he passed close to John Richardson who was in quest" of him, but was not noticed. He left New- castle for Scotland, her got upon the Ber- wick Coach, land then took a ticket for Edinburgh, but only went to Dunbar, in the Coach, remained in Dunbar, and set off for Edinburgh next morning; met with the gentleman, and took the some lodgings