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5 got themselves genteelly dressed. They attended St. James's fair at Kelso, and picked twenty pounds from two persons. From thence they went to Dumfries, and stopped three weeks; they attended Lockerby fair, and going into a public house, a farmer and drover were casting out, when Barney blew the coal, and they fell a fighting, and both tumbled. Barney picked the farmer's pocket of twenty-three pounds. 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 twenty 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. next day took the coach for Carlisle.

On other nights they got two gold watches; they took about seventy pounds in whole during their stay in Newcastle. They then went to Durham, and at night broke a house on the road to York; they got twenty pounds here. They were apprehended for this act, tried, and found guilty, and sent back to prison, to be brought up for sentence of death at the end of the