1929 would be a year miner William Kilpatrick of 293 Glasgow Road would have liked to have forgotten about. The miner, employed at Bardykes Colliery found another man’s payline, and as well as collecting his own wage, went back to the office at a later time when it was staffed by another person, and handed […]
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Blantyre Mans Exhaustion Fraud 1934
New Year 1934 didn’t get off to a great start for Blantyre man Patrick McSporran. Unemployed, he devised a means of deceiving the public in order to obtain food and money but his rouse was caught out and he was charged in January 1934. He was charged, with having by the pretence of collapsing, owing to […]