Next, a long forgotten story from 134 years ago. The scene was at Baird’s Rows, which is now modern day Calder Street. The date 1st January, New Years Day, 1892.
Patrick Cashill, miner, Baird’s Rows, Blantyre, was taken into custody in connection with the death, early that Friday morning, of Owen Devine, who lodged with him.
A newspaper of the time reported, “It appears the two men and another lodger had been drinking during the New Years evening, and the accused and deceased on their return were the worse of drink. A quarrel is said to have ensued, in the course of which accused is alleged to have given deceased a push, which caused him to fall across a cradle and iron chair. When the police were called in life was extinct. Drs Loudon, Hamilton, and Wilson, Blantyre, have made a post-mortem examination of the body of Devine, and have found that death was due to extravasation of blood on the brain, believed to be the result of violence.”
Paul, were there two sets of Baird’s Rows?
My Simm grandparents, Dad and half siblings lived in Baird’ Rows not at all close to Calder Street, rather around where Douglas auto repair is located south of Forrest Street (where Alice, Hugh and I were born).