cigarette card showing: Grizel Cochrane saved her fatherˇs life by stealing his death warrant. Grizel Cochrane in disguise. For more than a month. Sir John Cochrane had lain in the Tollbooth prison in Edinburgh under sentence of death. He had been captured after taking part in an unsuccessful uprising against the unpopular King James II. His death-warrant. personally signed by James. was on its way from London to Edinburgh. It was being brought by a postman on horseback.