DR. CAMERONasked the Lord Advocate, Whether it is true that David Raeside, a lad of eighteen years of age, arrested in Glasgow on 23rd November, 1883, on a charge of forging and uttering, kept in prison for seven weeks, and then liberated on bail, has not yet been brought to trial; and, why, since Circuit Courts were held in Glasgow at the end of December, February, and April, so serious a charge as that against Raeside has been so long permitted to remain undisposed of?
THE LORD ADVOCATE (Mr. J. B. BALFOUR)David Raeside, his brother Joseph Raeside, and another person were charged together with having forged certain certificates of pedigree for insertion in the Stud Book of the Clydesdale Horse Society. Joseph Raeside, the elder brother of David Raeside, had gone to America before the frauds were discovered. In order to the history of the frauds being satisfactorily laid before a jury, it would be essential, or at least of great importance, that the brothers Raeside should be tried together. This is the cause of the delay.