How we take things for granted these days, like being able to listen to the radio for instance. The first case in Hamilton Sheriff Court ever to be heard under the Control of Wireless Telegraphy Act. 1904, concerned James McLean, a miner, Greenside Street, Blantyre in December 1926. James was fined 20s for installing […]
Mr Patrick Larkins, was a carter of 11 Carfin Street, Blantyre. He was sentenced to 30 days’ imprisonment at Hamilton J.P. Court Monday 24th January 1927. It was said that accused had not been employed for nearly a year, but obtained work a few days before. That Saturday, he went home and handed his mother […]
On being sentenced in Hamilton J.P. Court on Saturday 22nd January 1927, for theft, William Allen (14), a local Blantyre boy living at 33 Allison Place, Springwells, Blantyre, refused to walk from the dock and, shrieked, “Oh, daddy, help!” He was lifted by an officer and carried, still shouting, to the cells below. The Fiscal […]
Three Cambuslang youths would seriously regret some moments of madness when they broke into Blantyre Miner’s Welfare in Calder Street in December 1968. They first broke into the centre on 2nd December 1968 and stole 3 bottles of whisky, one bottle of vodka, 400 cigarettes and £8. A successful haul, they decided to come […]
A rather amusing but brutal case of assault was heard at Hamilton J.P Court Monday 21st February 1927, when Miss Margaret Duffy, a pithead worker, residing at Calder Street was charged with assaulting Elizabeth Park, a farm servant, of Townhill Farm. The assault took place in the ladies’ room the Miners’ Welfare Institute, Auchentibber, where a […]
At Hamilton Court on Monday 16th May 1927, Jane Conway or McSherry, an elderly woman residing at 50 Craig Street, Blantyre, was convicted of wilfully and maliciously cutting the walls of a house at 10 Thornhill Place in Blantyre. She had been hacking and cutting the walls with a sharp instrument for an unknown reason, […]
Alfred Burnett, a miner, residing at 11 Sydes Brae, High Blantyre, was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment at Hamilton Sheriff Court on Friday 10th February 1928 for stealing a quantity of coal from the railway siding at High Blantyre. Whilst being sentenced, he also attempted to shield his friend from any sentence. Charles McGill, another […]