Kay's Edinburgh portraits : a series of anecdotal biographies chiefly of Scotchmen . ^. WILLIAM BRODIE. 177 Hamilton, a chimney-sweeper, that he did not scrapie to have recourseto the usual tricks resorted to by professed gamblers. In this action heis accused of having used loaded or false dice, by which Hamilton lostupwards of six guineas. In the gratification of this ruling passion, hewas in the habit of meeting, almost nightly, a club of gamblers at ahouse of a most disreputable description, kept by a person of the nameof Clark, in the Fleshmarket Close. Notwithstanding his profligatehabits
Kay's Edinburgh portraits : a series of anecdotal biographies chiefly of Scotchmen . ^. WILLIAM BRODIE. 177 Hamilton, a chimney-sweeper, that he did not scrapie to have recourseto the usual tricks resorted to by professed gamblers. In this action heis accused of having used loaded or false dice, by which Hamilton lostupwards of six guineas. In the gratification of this ruling passion, hewas in the habit of meeting, almost nightly, a club of gamblers at ahouse of a most disreputable description, kept by a person of the nameof Clark, in the Fleshmarket Close. Notwithstanding his profligatehabits, Brodie had the address to prevent them from becoming public;and he contrived to maintain a fair character among his successful was he in blinding the world, that he continued a mem-ber of the Council until within a short period of the time he committedthe crime for which he afterwards suffered ; and it is a singular fact,that little more than a naonth previously, he sat as a juryman in acriminal cause in that very court where he himself soon afterwardsreceived s
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