Policeman's Gate

About Policeman's Gate

The ‘policeman’s gate’, site of the murder of a policeman in November 1880. PC Thomas Scott accused two Kirk Yetholm gypsies, Stovie Jock Tait and Will Blyth, of poaching and indeed two rabbits and a ferret were found in their pockets. Tait and Blyth jumped over the low wall by the path but when Scott and a gamekeeper that was with him, followed, the poachers threw stones at the constable, knocking him over and into the Halterburn. The unconscious constable was taken to Pawston, half a...