Bannatyne Club > Trial of Duncan Terig, alias Clerk, and Alexander Bane Macdonald for the murder of Arthur Davis ... June, A.D. M.DCC.LIV [i.e. 1754]

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public order, that all soldiers in my service, who shall accept
any gift from the ^^irgin, or any saint whatever, shall, eo
ipso, incur the penalty of death."
Amongst English trials, there is only mention of a ghost
in a very incidental manner, in that of John Cole, fourth
year of William and Mary, State Trials, vol. xii. The case
is a species of supplement to that of the well-known trial
of Henry Harrison, which precedes it in the same collection,
of which the following is the summary.
A respectable doctor of medicine, Clenche, had the mis-
fortune to offend a haughty, violent, and imperious woman
of indifferent character, named Vanwinckle, to whom he
had lent money, and who he wished to repay it. A
hackney-coach, with two men in it, took up the physician
by night, as they pretended, to carry him to visit a patient.
But on the road they strangled him with a handkerchief,
having a coal, or some such hard substance, placed against
their victim's ^^•indpipe, and escaped from the coach. One
Henry Harrison, a man of loose life, connected with this
Mrs Vanwinckle, the borrower of the money, was tried,
convicted, and executed, on pretty clear evidence, yet he
died denying the crime charged. The case being of a