Qualla: The Appin Murder https://qualla.com/appin-murder en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:16 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: The Appin Murder https://qualla.com/appin-murder The Appin Murder: Introduction https://qualla.com/appin-murder/ Colin Roy Campbell was riding to evict people from their homes. It was 14 May 1752 in the wood of Lettermore near Duror, on the west coast of Scotland, and Campbell - tacksman of Glenure and factor for the Forfeited Estates Commission, the body administering land confiscated after the 1745 Jacobite Rising - was bound for another round of clearances on the lands of Clan Stewart of Appin. He had three companions with him: his nephew Mungo Campbell, a lawyer; the Sheriff of Argyllshire; and a servant called William MacKenzie who had just turned back to retrieve the sheriff's dropped coat. One shot cracked out of the trees. Campbell slumped on his horse and cried 'Oh, I am dead! Take care of yourselves!' Mungo, riding alongside, sighted a figure in dark clothing on a hillside, carrying a musket, moving away.

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/b/appin-murder-wp/gcvb-the-appin-murder-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full The Appin Murder: The Red Fox and a Country in Mourning https://qualla.com/appin-murder/ Campbell was known to his Gaelic-speaking tenants as An Cù Ruadh - the Red Fox, after the colour of his hair and the reputation he had earned. To the Edinburgh authorities he was a loyal Whig and a hard worker. To the Stewart families about to lose their homes he was the face of ...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/b/appin-murder-wp/gcvb-the-appin-murder-the-red-fox-and-a-country-in-mourning.mp3 0:06 2 full The Appin Murder: James of the Glens https://qualla.com/appin-murder/ The chief suspect, Alan Breck Stewart, fled almost at once - and so the authorities turned to the man left holding the clan together. James Stewart of the Glens, known in Gaelic as Seumas a' Ghlinne, was the half-brother of the exiled chief and the de facto head of Clan Stewart o...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/b/appin-murder-wp/gcvb-the-appin-murder-james-of-the-glens.mp3 0:06 3 full The Appin Murder: The Psalm of James of the Glens https://qualla.com/appin-murder/ On 8 November 1752 a special gibbet was erected above the narrows between Loch Leven and Loch Linnhe at Ballachulish - the place known in Gaelic as Caolas MhicPhadraig, MacPatrick's Narrows, near where the Ballachulish Bridge now lands on the south shore. James was led to it. Wit...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/b/appin-murder-wp/gcvb-the-appin-murder-the-psalm-of-james-of-the-glens.mp3 0:06 4 full The Appin Murder: Who Really Pulled the Trigger? https://qualla.com/appin-murder/ Almost no one then believed James Stewart had fired the shot. Almost no historian now believes it either. So who did? The most enduring answer comes from the oral tradition of Appin itself, where the name has been quietly passed down through at least twenty descendants of Clan St...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/b/appin-murder-wp/gcvb-the-appin-murder-who-really-pulled-the-trigger.mp3 0:06 5 full The Appin Murder: Stevenson's Inheritance https://qualla.com/appin-murder/ In 2015 the Scottish government declined to issue a posthumous pardon for James Stewart, and the official miscarriage of justice remains official. But the case never left the imagination of one Edinburgh writer in particular. Robert Louis Stevenson set Kidnapped in the immediate ...

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