Charles McGill, another Blantyre miner of 395 Main Street, High Blantyre was then charged with acting in concert with Burnett.
Alfred Burnett, who had several previous convictions, had asked M‘Gill to help him take away some coal from the railway siding, which they said had been given to them by a railway guardsman.
The Fiscal said that Burnett had a black record, and only wanted to take the full responsibility for the offence. McGill was fined £3 with the option of fifteen days, imprisonment.
From “Blantyre Explained” by Paul Veverka (c) 2016
Pictured in the same era as this story in 1930, is High Blantyre Station’s eastern platform. The waiting rooms were segregated into separate men and women’s rooms. The station is no longer there and is today, a modern housing estate.