Continuing the story of the break in to Craig’s Pub from 1895. Part1 was yesterday, the second part of the court transcript as follows: This case called upon many witnesses. Next in the courtroom stand was ice cream dealer Capaldi Camilo who said about 8 o’clock in the morning of the 23rd, four men came […]
On Thursday 15th August 1895, four men stood in the dock at Hamilton Sheriff Court accused of breaking into a Blantyre pub. Told here in 2 parts, using a transcript of the court proceedings. Before the Sheriff and a jury, James Connor, Samuel Scott, John Allan and Archibald Lindsay, all miners of Blantyre were charged […]
No soon as I’d posted the other day about the Court being compassionate and lenient about a child’s theft of pears, I find in the same week, the absolute opposite of an overly harsh incident in the courtroom. In August 1895, Margaret Prentice, a wee girl living with her family at Cross Row, near Blantyre […]
This little snippet is worthy of mention here on Blantyre Project, not because of theft, but because it was a rare instance of court officials being compassionate. In August 1895, little John Gibson, the son of Andrew Gibson, Blantyre was caught stealing pears from a garden in Blantyre. The boy was hungry and seeing a […]
On the 8th September 1895, a group of people from High Blantyre set off to nearby Bellsfield Farm with a deliberate intention on stealing some food. The farm belonged to John Craig who discovered the group in one of his crop fields. John Smith Labourer of Springfield, Walter Clark of Aitkenhead’s Land, Edward Tonner and […]
Continuing a look this month at previously unseen old Blantyre photos online. On 17th November 1967, the High Blantyre Primary School at Hunthill Road went on fire. This photo was kindly shared by George Hay. It is unknown if it was started deliberately or accidentally. This school was also later known in the 1970’s as […]
On Monday 18th November 1895, six Blantyre youths stood up in the Justice of Peace Court in Hamilton to face their punishment for previous dangerous antics. Francis Campbell, Duncan Brown, Hugh McDonald, John McGhie, Thomas McLaughlin and John Ferrie were charged with placing a plate layers bogie on the rails of a railway siding at […]