By Molly Whittington-Egan
This medley of Scottish Murders doesn't take care of the despicable or the incomprehensible international of serial and psychopathic crimes, yet concentrates at the extra amazing and Gothic whodunnits, a few of them recognized, a few now not so. the total bankruptcy checklist is: The Misted Mountain, The Arran Case, 1889; The German Tea Planter, Broughty Ferry, 1912; The past due Mr Toad, The Musselburgh Case, 1911; 'Oh, Loch Maree!', William Laurie King, Edinburgh, 1924; The operating woman, Christina Gilmour, 1843; The traveling guy, Hugh Macleod, 1830; The bare Ghost, Sgt Arthur Davies, 1749; The Cinderella Syndrome, Bertie Wilcox, 1929; 'Holly Willie', William Bennison, 1850; A Tryst With Dr Smith, The St Fergus Case, 1853; The Wild ducks, the Saunders Case, 1913; The French Schoolmaster's spouse, Eugene Marie Chantrelle, 1878; The Ice-Field, the |Arran Stowaways,1868; The Toad within the Tunnel, The Garvie Case, 1968; Bible John, the Barrowland Ballroom Killings, 1968-9; Jock the Ripper, William Henry Bury,...
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Some content of the letter can be taken as a proclamation of Laurie’s heterosexuality. It can, too, if we wish, be taken to show anti-social conduct, morbid jealousy, with a paranoid flavour: ‘Three years ago I became very much attached to Miss —, a teacher, — School, and residing at —. My affection for this girl was at first returned … until I discovered that she was encouraging the attentions of another man, —, teacher, —, who took every opportunity to depreciate me in her estimation. ’ Was it thoughts of the perfidious teacher which tormented Laurie’s mind as he paced the lane behind Wooley’s Tea Rooms?
Quite a number of witnesses, in the grip of some form of mass hysteria, confidently identified a Canadian rolling-stone, named Charles Warner, as the suspicious character seen in the vicinity of Elmgrove. In a practice now beyond the pale, they were shown photographs of Warner before picking him out on identification parade. The poor fellow was a sitting target, held at Maidstone prison for fraudulently obtaining bed and board at the Rose and Crown, at Tonbridge. Trench went to Antwerp to confirm his alibi, which he had almost forgotten, his waistcoat pawned at the time of the murder.
Recently, in 1911, Hutchison had shown signs of going off the rails. He had abandoned his perfectly decent job as chemist at his uncle’s firm in Musselburgh and taken to speculation on the Stock Exchange. During the rubber boom, he claimed, he had made the sum of £17,000. Other investments, however, in copper, oils, and South African shares had proved inadvisable, although he had recommended them to friends as a good thing. He had taken to tearing around the streets of Dalkeith, where, at Bridgend, he lived with his parents, as if the speed of his car relieved the anxiety of his financial status.