Q. Did he quit you? A. Yes.
Q. What did he do then? A. He got on the old woman with his breast on her head, and kept in her breath, she gave a kind of cry and moaned a little after the first cry.
Q. How did he apply his hands to her? A. He put one hand on her nose and the other under her chin, and stopped her breath, he continued this for ten or fifteen minutes.
Q. Did he say any thing while this was going on?
A. No, he then got up and put his hand across her mouth and kept it there three or four minutes; she appeared quite dead then.
Q. Was you looking on all this while? A. I was sitting on the chair.
Q. Did he strip the body? A. Yes, and put the clothes under the bed, he then doubled up the body, and put the straw on top of her near the head of the bed.
Q. While you were sitting on the chair and he was murdering, where was your wife and M‘Dougal? A. When they heard the first screech they leaped out of bed and run into the passage, and did not come in until the body was put away.
Q. Where were you? A. I was sitting at the head of the bed when they both lay down and covered themselves with the quilt.
Q. Did you see any blood at that time? A. No.