[The Book of Dreams and Ghosts by Andrew Lang]@TWC D-Link bookThe Book of Dreams and Ghosts CHAPTER VII 16/34
The whole affair is thoroughly characteristic of the Highlanders and of Scottish jurisprudence after Culloden, while the verdict of "Not Guilty" (when "Not Proven" would have been stretching a point) is evidence to the "common-sense" of the eighteenth century. {141} There are other cases, in Webster, Aubrey and Glanvil of ghosts who tried more successfully to bring their murderers to justice.
But the reports of the trials do not exist, or cannot be found, and Webster lost a letter which he once possessed, which would have been proof that ghostly evidence was given and was received at a trial in Durham (1631 or 1632).
Reports of old men present were collected for Glanvil, but are entirely too vague. The case of Fisher's Ghost, which led to evidence being given as to a murder in New South Wales, cannot be wholly omitted.
Fisher was a convict settler, a man of some wealth.
He disappeared from his station, and his manager (also a convict) declared that he had returned to England.
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