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Memorial

Cairn for Margaret Hall

Willowbrae, Edinburgh
Cairn for Margaret Hall
Richard Webb · CC BY-SA 2.0

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About this work

This cairn commemorates an event on 17 October 1720 when Nicol Muschat, a surgeon, dragged his wife to a nearby spot and brutally murdered her. He was eventually tried and hanged for this crime. At his trial he said that he had simply tired of her.

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