Mauchac?s Uasc.1 LOCKHART ASSASSINATED.
we must suppose he was separated, swore to have
vengeance. He was perhaps not quite sane ; but
anyway, he was a man of violent and ungovernable
passions. Six months before the event we are
about to relate he told Sir James Stewart, an advocate,
when in London, that he was ?determined
to go to Scotland before Candlemas and kill the
president !? ?The very imagination of such a
thing,? said Sir James, ?is a sin before God?
bed with illness, but sprang up on hearing the
pistol-shot; and on learning what had occurred,
rushed forth in her night-dress and assisted to
convey in the victim, who was laid on two chairs,
and instantly expired. The ball had passed out
at the left breast. Chiesly was instantly seized.
? I am not wont to do things by halves,? said he,
grimly and boastfully ; ? and now I have taught the
president how to do justice !? He was put to th,o
THE FIRST INTERVIEW IN 1786 : DEACON
?Leave God and me alone,? was the fierce response,
? we have many things to reckon betwixt us, and we
will reckon this too !? The Lord President was
warned of his open threats, but unfortunately took
no heed of them. On Easter Sunday, the 3rst of
March, 1689, the assassin loaded his pistols, and
went to the choir of St. Giles?s church, from whence
he dogged him home to the O!d Bank Close, and
though acconipanied by Lord Castlehill and Mr.
Daniel Lockhart, shot him in the back just as he
was about to enter his house-the old one whose
history we have tmced. Lady Lockhart-aunt of
the famous Duke of Wharton-was confined to her
URODIE AND GEORGE SMITH. (Afer Kay.)
torture to discover if he had anyaccomplices; and as
he had been taken red hand, he was on Monday
sentenced to death by Sir Magus Prize, Provost
of the city, without much formality, according to
Father Hay, and on a hurdle he was dragged to the
Cross,wliere his right hand was struck off when alive;
then he was hanged in chains at Drumsheugh, says
another account; between the city and Leith at the
Gallowlee, according to a third, with the pistol tied
to his neck. His right hand was nailed on the
West Port. The manor house of Dalry, latterly
the property of Kirkpatrick, of Allisland, was after
this alleged to be haunted, and no servant therein
