The tinkler-gypsies . ngdead on his shake-down. The floor was coveredwith blood, and various stabs appeared to havebeen inflicted on his body; at his side this(drawing a long blood-encrusted knife from hisbosom), yes ! this identical knife which I hadbought at the fair of Ayr twelve months before,and had sold it to Will Marshall the day beforethe murder was committed ; but what durst Isay ? He was powerful and amongst his friends,whilst I stood alone, and in a strange , however, secreted the knife for my own pre-servation, as he had bought it of me when noone was present, and I have e
The tinkler-gypsies . ngdead on his shake-down. The floor was coveredwith blood, and various stabs appeared to havebeen inflicted on his body; at his side this(drawing a long blood-encrusted knife from hisbosom), yes ! this identical knife which I hadbought at the fair of Ayr twelve months before,and had sold it to Will Marshall the day beforethe murder was committed ; but what durst Isay ? He was powerful and amongst his friends,whilst I stood alone, and in a strange , however, secreted the knife for my own pre-servation, as he had bought it of me when noone was present, and I have every reason tosuppose that he left it there in order that I mightbe thought the murderer, as the knife wasknown to be mine : but I am determined toretain it, and will on my death-bed (by present-ing it) try to awaken his conscience to a senseof his guilt. He had for some weeks beforebeen hinting that he was nearly related to ourchief by his mothers side, but that, I have sincebeen informed, was false. The death of our. Billy Kills his Predecessor. 5 1 1 king was no sooner made known, when, onaccount of Wills pretended kindred, he tookupon himself the management of affliirs, andbegan by ordering the body of the deceased tobe buried the same night, as privately aspossible, in an obscure place ; nor was any cog-nisance taken of the affair, though his suddendeath, and the suspicious circumstances attend-ing it, were well known through the Will having failed in implicating me, he re-ported that our chief had been his own murderer,and has since that period acted as our leader,in which office, to do him justice, he behaveswith impartiality; but I am positive that hisguilty conscience renders his existence nnser-able, for ever after the affair of the cave atCainmuir (Cairnsmore), Kirkcudbrightshire, hedares neither travel in the dark nor sleep alone. We have adopted the plan of narrating inci-dents, whether handed down by written recordsor merely by tradition, in the life o
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