Trial of John Watson Laurie
Trial of John Watson Laurie

Author: John Watson -1930 Laurie

Publisher: Hassell Street Press

Published: 2021-09-09

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9781013593277

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Trial of John Watson Laurie
Trial of John Watson Laurie

Author: Scotland. High Court of Justiciary

Publisher: Canada Law Book Company

Published: 1932

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13:

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Trial in the High Court of Justiciary, Edinburgh, for the murder of Edwin Robert Rose,1889.

The Arran Tragedy. [Newspaper Cuttings, Etc. & a Report of the Trial of John Watson Laurie for the Nurder of Edwin Robert Rose in 1889.].
The Arran Tragedy. [Newspaper Cuttings, Etc. & a Report of the Trial of John Watson Laurie for the Nurder of Edwin Robert Rose in 1889.].

Author: John Watson Laurie

Publisher:

Published: 1908

Total Pages: 157

ISBN-13:

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A typescript report of the trial of John Watson Laurie for the murder of Edwin Robert Rose in 1889, with reproductions of the photographs produced in evidence in the trial and newspaper cuttings, dated from 1908-1912, about Laurie's term in prison, bound with a proof copy (with manuscript corrections in pencil) of an article or book chapter, 'The Arran murder' (source unidentified, but stamped 'Wm. Green & Sons, printing department, 13 Mar. 1913).

The Goatfell Murder
The Goatfell Murder

Author: The Goatfell Murder

Publisher: Rymour Books

Published: 2020-08-30

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 1838186395

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The 15th July 1889 was a busy day on the Isle of Arran as it was Fair Monday. A number of visitors opted to climb Goatfell though many were put off by the cloud lingering on the summit. It seemed a day like any other, but that evening there would be an tragic event which would lead to one of the biggest man-hunts in Scottish criminal history, as well as a sensational murder trial. Two of the people who set out to climb the mountain that afternoon were John Watson Laurie, a 28-year-old pattern-maker from Coatbridge, and Edwin Robert Rose, a 32-year-old clerk from London. They had met three days previously on the excursion steamer Ivanhoe. Rose’s battered body, ‘the face terribly mangled’, was found three weeks later concealed under a boulder on a remote part of the mountain. The discovery sparked a huge search for Laurie who was subsequently arrested for Rose’s murder after two months on the run. When captured he attempted suicide with a cut-throat razor, then stated: ‘I robbed the man, but I did not murder him.’ This is the story of the Goatfell tragedy and its aftermath, described by the Glasgow Herald as ‘the most remarkable tale of crime and retribution in the annals of Scottish judicial history’.