Murder Mystery, Still Unsolved

On the 13th of November, 1806, a girl tripped over what seemed to be a bundle of rags on the ground at Tweeddale Court. The rags turned out to be William Begbie, a porter who worked for the British Linen Banking House. He'd been murdered - the knife was still lodged in his heart right up to the hilt.

William had been on his way from Leith to the High Street, where the company's head office was based, with £4,392 on him (a fortune back then). Sure enough, the money was missing. It wasn't going to be easy to catch the murderer, though...whoever it was had put paper round the blade to stop any blood spurting and therefore staining his or her clothes.

William left behind him a wife and four children, who the bank provided for. The bank also put up a large reward for anyone who could solve the mystery, but it didn't do any good.

Months went by, and people began to forget about the murder. Then one day, three men out walking found a roll of bank notes lodged in a hole in a wall. They handed it in to the authorities, where it was proven to be £3,000 of the stolen money. The men were cleared of any suspicion and given a reward by the bank, but the mystery remains unsolved to this day.