The Master was slain by two of James's attendants; the Earl, rushing with four or five men up the turret-stair, fell in fight by Ramsay's rapier.
Lennox and his company now broke through the door between the gallery and the turret, and all was over except a riotous assemblage of the town's folk.

The man with the dagger had fled: he later came in and gave himself up; he was Gowrie's steward; his name was Henderson; it was he who rode with the Master to Falkland and back to Perth to warn Gowrie of James's approach.

He confessed that Gowrie had then bidden him put on armour, on a false pretence, and the Master had stationed him in the turret.

The fact that Henderson had arrived (from Falkland) at Gowrie's house by half-past ten was amply proved, yet Gowrie had made no preparations for the royal visit.

If Henderson was not the man in the turret, his sudden and secret flight from Perth is unexplained.