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I ran out and said, 'O dear God! my husband is murdered, and his ribs are broken'." Lord Nugent--"What made you think your husband's ribs were broken ?" "He held up his hands like this, and I saw a hammer, or something like a hammer, and it came into my mind that his ribs were broken." Sewell stated that the murder was accomplished by means of a hammer.
The prisoners were discharged on 13th September.

On 5th March, 1830, they were tried at the Buckingham Lent Assizes, were found guilty and were hanged, protesting their innocence, on 8th March, 1830.
"In the report of Mrs.Edden's evidence (at the Assizes) no mention is made of the vision." {144} Here end our ghosts in courts of justice; the following ghost gave evidence of a murder, or rather, confessed to one, but was beyond the reach of human laws.
This tale of 1730 is still current in Highland tradition.