The " Ardlamont Case," that is, the charge against Mr.
Alfred John Monson, of having murdered Lieut. W. D. C. Hambrough, at Ardlamont, in Argyllshire, in order to benefit by policies of insurance for £20,000, commenced in Edin- burgh on Tuesday. The prisoner has been sixteen weeks in confinement, and it is believed the trial will last nearly a fortnight, the guilt or innocence of the accused resting on the view taken of a vast multitude of details. As yet, the principal evidence is that of the doctors, who affirm that Ham- brough could not have been shot accidentally by himself, and of an insurance manager, who testifies to the existence of two policies of 110,000 each on Hambrough's life and their assign- ment to Mrs. Munson. The evidence is complicated by the fact that Monson is accused not only of shooting Hambrough on 10th August, but of attempting to drown him on the previous day.
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