>From the WFP Archives 29th May, 1862 Edward Rodgers, aged about sixty years, residing with his family at Crook, parish of Kirkinner, took breakfast at home at about 5 o'clock on the morning of the 21st inst., purposing thereafter to proceed to Carseduchan to cut peats. About 8 o'clock a young man observed him coming down through the village of Kirkinner, talking as if arguing with another individual. Shortly afterwards he was seen going through a field on the east side of Kirkinner and putting off his coat at the back of the dyke, then making a race into the mill-dam which leads to Westmains mill. An alarm was given to the blacksmith and sawyers, at Kirkinner mill, by a boy who came from Crook. Macadam and others went to the place, and took the body out of the water, but found that life was extinct. Rodgers could not have been above 15 or 20 minutes in the water when he was found as the place where he threw himself into the dam (is only) about 300 or 350 yards from the smithy and sawmill. The friends of the deceased have for some time past considered his mind in a weak state. Diana