OS1/5/19/35

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LINTHILL HOUSE Linthill House Mr George Logan. Occupier
Mr William Haulston Cuithill Gardens
Andrew Wilson
012.01 A Small Mansion. two stories high, Situated in the centre of a small lawn ornamented with trees - There are outhouses and a small garden attached - This house was the scene of a dreadful murder in 1751. which is described in the New Statistical account of Berwickshire Page 324 - " The Mansion house of Linthill which is pleasantly situated on the banks of the Ale, near its junction with the Eye, was after the death of Patrick Home, the scene of a remarkable tragedy, his widow having been barbarously murdered there by her servant Norman Ross about the year 1752 - He had concealed himself under her bed whence he dallied forth upon her at dead of night - After a severe struggle, during which he inflicted several dreadful wounds upon her with a Case Knife, with which he was armed, she contrived to reach the bell-rope and alarm the family; upon which he leaped from the window & escaped- A few days afterwards he was found by Some reapers in the adjoining field having broken his leg in the fall- He was tried before The High Court of Justiciary at Edinburgh, & Condemned to be executed & his body hung in chains"

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