I like this little story. Thomas Lennox (25), unemployed miner, residing in Beckford Street, Hamilton, was sent to prison for 21 days Sheriff Brown at Hamilton, when he admitted breaking into a public-house at 213 and 215 Glasgow Road, Burnbank on the outskirts of Blantyre, on December 19th 1935, and stealing three bottles of whisky […]
On 31st December 1935, two men were charged after a raid by detectives on their houses at High Blantyre which led to an appearance at Hamilton J.P. Court. The two men had decided to stock up for their festive holiday a little earlier than planned, and in a manner most illegal. Mr. David Cunningham, labourer, 10 […]
In April 1944, the Dundee Courier reported “Blantyre police are making extensive inquiries regarding a burglary at the Livingstone National Memorial. Articles which had belonged Livingstone were stolen, including his revolver, two amputating knives and a small dagger and leather sheath, all carried by the famous missionary-explorer throughout his journeys across Africa. Knives were in […]