Page:Life of David Haggart who was executed at Edinburgh, 18th July, 1821 for the murder of the Dumfries jailor (2).pdf/5

 5 On other nights they got 2 gold watch- es; they took about L 70. in the whole, during their stay at Newcastle. They then went to Durham, and at night broke a lonely house on the road to York; they got L.20. there; 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 prison that night, but Haggart only escaped : he provided himself with a rope-ladder, and give the same to Barney, who made his escape that same night" When Haggart was coming to Durham from York, with the saw, in company with a York pick-pocket, they were pursue!! by two constables; and just as one was apprehending Haggart, he laid him low with his pistol. --They got clear away, and he never knew whither the man was mur- dered or not, but he thoughts. - They next went to Coldstream fair, and Barney being found attempting a farmer pockets got three months in Jedburgh jail. Hag- gart went to Newcastle again, and to the same lodgings, where he was treated like a son ; little did the people know who they were so kind to-He did numerous tricks here, and then proceeded to Edinburgh, where he carried on the same line ; he did not live in his father's house.