Cobweb Hall

Cobweb Hall

A Berwickshire Folk-tale about a house that is shunned rather than haunted. Lived in by an eccentric single woman, Miss Clinscales, with an obsequious man servant. She is found dead one morning by maid, with her throat cut; a large amount of money is missing, as is the butler. He is later discovered with a broken leg, hiding in the field. Arrested and imprisoned, he writes a confession, which sells as a broadside for a penny.

story by George Douglas

Headpiece and tailpiece by Nellie Baxter, Marion A. Mason, and Annie Mackie

Patrick Geddes & Colleagues

Autumn 1895

Public Domain
Toronto Metropolitan University Library Archives and Special Collections

Evergreen Digital Edition, edited by Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, 2016-2018. Yellow Nineties 2.0, Toronto Metropolitan University Centre for Digital Humanities, 2019.

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