In September 1910, Mr James Main, a hawker from Douglas Street, High Blantyre was up in court for having broken a pane of glass at nearby Greenhall House. Whilst that doesn’t seem serious, you have to consider Greenhall House was then a private property, in a private estate and more than one crime had allegedly […]
An 18-year-old girl, Mary Nelson alias Bunce, who was described as a hawker, of no fixed abode, appeared before Sheriff Walker in Hamilton Sheriff Court on Wednesday 15th July 1936 and admitted six charges of fraud. Amongst the charges was her intention to defraud John Richardson, of 295 Glasgow Road, Blantyre, of £2 on March 7 […]