(Circa 1810)

A Horrible Account of a Man who kept a public-house in the Highlands who murdered and Robbed almost every person that stopped in his house, giving an account of a man who stopped in his house, with a curious discovery of the landlord.

This is giving an account of a horrid murder, of a treacherous innkeeper that has kept an inn those several years past and has been in the habit, of murdering a number of people, and never was found out till Thursday last.  A gentleman happened to pass by, and had been detained and was obliged to stay there all night.  This said gentleman was in the custom of purchasing black cattle; he had two hundred pounds of notes, besides twenty pounds of cash; This gentleman got a place from the landlord to secure the money, when he locked it up in a drawer and put the key in his small clothes pocket, when he thought all was safe, but the false villain the landlord, had a false key, and when he found the gentleman asleep, he opened the drawer and found what money he had; and the number of his notes, he locked the drawer again and left all as it was, again he went and acquainted his wife and what he was intending to do, but his wife prevented the horrible deed, and when he could not get it brought to execution he took another plan.  In the morning the gentleman arose and settled his bill, and rode away.  The innkeeper made an alarm that there was a drover in his house last night and robbed him of two hundred pounds of cash, to which two officers pursued him on horse-back and brought him prisoner and took him before a Magistrate...

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