Certain evidence cropping up, the charge is transferred to the Justice-Clerk's own son.

Of course in the next trial the Justice-Clerk is excluded, and the case is called before the Lord Justice-General.

Where would this trial have to be?
I fear in Edinburgh, which would not suit my view.

Could it be again at the circuit town ?" The point was referred to a quondam fellow-member with Stevenson of the Edinburgh Speculative Society, Mr.Graham Murray, the present Solicitor-General for Scotland; whose reply was to the effect that there would be no difficulty in making the new trial take place at the circuit town; that it would have to be held there in spring or autumn, before two Lords of Justiciary; and that the Lord Justice-General would have nothing to do with it, this title being at the date in question only a nominal one held by a layman (which is no longer the case).

On this Stevenson writes, "Graham Murray's note _re_ the venue was highly satisfactory, and did me all the good in the world." The terms of his inquiry seem to imply that he intended other persons, before Archie, to have fallen first under suspicion of the murder; and also--doubtless in order to make the rescue by the Black Brothers possible--that he wanted Archie to be imprisoned not in Edinburgh but in the circuit town.