The halberdiers have seized the first criminal of the day, ex-cornet Richard Walker. Here he stands trial, prosecuted by local lawyer John Hunter and defended by Iain Burke frae Galashiels.
All to no avail as the crowd cries out a verdict of Guilty and the halberdiers hussle him awa'
Tae serve a sentence in the stocks, where the kids will throw wet sponges at him.
Then the halberdiers arrested the recently retired chief of the local police, Watson McAteer
He pleads for mercy
But he's off tae the stocks an' all.
Maybe I should get awa' hame before ah get masel arrestit by those halberdiers!
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