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GLASGOW HERALD
22 JUNE 1910

FATAL ACCIDENT AT BRODICK FAIR

About nine o’clock last night a young woman named MARY HINSHELWOOD, Anderson Place, Gourock, who arrived by the evening cruise of the QUEEN ALEXANDRA, was riding on the hobby horse at Brodick Fair, when she was observed to fall to the side and grasp the upright pole, immediately afterwards falling to the ground.

Doctor J. H. Fullarton, who was at hand, pronounced life extinct.

A small punctured wound was discovered on the left side below the heart, and it is feared that a stray shot from a shooting saloon in close proximity had struck her.

The police took charge of the body, which was removed to the waiting-room at the pier for medical inspection.

GREENOCK TELEGRAPH
22 JUNE 1910

DEATH

HINSHELWOOD: Mary, daughter of Hugh Hinshelwood, grocer, killed at Brodick Fair, Arran, on 21 June 1910, aged 19.

[morag]

Good Lord...how random is that?

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GLASGOW HERALD
23 JUNE 1910

THE BRODICK SHOOTING ACCIDENT

On arrival of the Fiscal from Rothesay at Brodick yesterday afternoon a post-mortem examination was held on the body of MARY HINSHELWOOD who met her death by a bullet from a shooting saloon at the fair on Tuesday.

The father of the girl arrived and identified the body, which will be removed today.

[glenshena]

No mention of the person responsabile for the shooting?

[bonzo]

Sounds like a tragic accident.

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GLASGOW HERALD
25 JUNE 1910

THE BRODICK SHOOTING ACCIDENT

Mr. R. D. McMillan, the Procurator Fiscal for Buteshire, has returned from Brodick, where he made exhaustive inquiry into the circumstances attending the death of the Gourock girl, MARY HINSHELWOOD, at Brodick Fair on Tuesday.

Doctor J. H. Fullarton made a post-mortem examination, and located the bullet in the body.

The doctor was standing only a few yards off when the accident occurred, and had no idea that the death was due to shooting. It was only when the body had been removed to an adjoining store and examined that the cause of death was ascertained.

In the interval the shooting in the booth had continued, the occupants being unaware that anyone had been hurt.

In the circumstances it seems probable that the person who fired the shot may not be discovered.

It remains with the Crown to say whether a public inquiry should be held.

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GLASGOW HERALD
27 JUNE 1895

SCARCITY OF WATER IN AYRSHIRE

Many of the villages in Ayrshire are suffering from want of water.

In the upper part of Dreghorn parish it is being sold from carts, and long strings of carts are taking water away daily from the pits as it is pumped up, for consumption in the Stewarton district.

The inhabitants of Bensley and Annicklodge are getting water carted from the Sourlie pits.

A sharp thunderstorm from the east passed over the district between four and five o’clock yesterday afternoon, and some rain fell.

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GLASGOW HERALD
1 JULY 1904

SCOTTISH SCHOOLS (ASSOCIATION CHAMPIONSHIP)

The final was played at Hampden Park on Tuesday evening between Royal Academy, Irvine, and Paisley Grammar School, and resulted in a win for the latter by 1 goal scored in the first half to 0.

IRVINE ROYAL TEAM:-

S Scott, J Muir, J Higgins, W McKie, W Shirlaw, H Anderson, W Gemmell, A Paton, A Neilson, A Niven, and S Wark.

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SS DAPHNE
3 JULY 1883

The SS Daphne, a 500-ton steamer, built by Alexander Stephen & Sons, Linthouse, Glasgow, sank moments after her launching at a Govan shipyard.

Around 200 men were on board, ready to start work on fitting it out as soon as it was properly floated.

Some sources reported 124 deaths while others said as many as 195 lost their lives in the sinking.

Among the dead were many young men, some of whose relatives were watching the launching ceremony from the shore.

[hahaya2004]

Here's a photo of the sinking:

http://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/histo ... d-11561230

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GLASGOW HERALD
9 JULY 1910

BRODICK SHOOTING AFFAIR
A GOUROCK GIRL’S DEATH
PUBLIC INQUIRY

At Rothesay yesterday – before Sheriff Martin – a public inquiry was held into the circumstances attending the death of MARY HINSEHLWOOD, shop girl, Anderson Place, Gourock, who was killed in a field at Brodick on June 21 by a bullet fired from shooting booth at Brodick Fair.

Considerable interest was manifested in the proceedings.

Mr. R. D. MacMillan, the Procurator Fiscal, appeared in the public interest; Mr. J. C. Scott, of Messrs Tod, Murray and Jamieson, writers, appeared on behalf of the Duke of Hamilton’s trustees; Mr. W. E. Leechman, writer, Glasgow, appeared for the father of the dead girl; and Mr. Andrew Herbert, watched the case in the interests of Bute County Council.

Mr. Alfred Hobday, proprietor of the shooting booth, appeared personally.

Bessie Brooks, Gourock, said, she went with the girl Hinshelwood to Brodick Fair. They were twice on the hobby-horses. On the second occasion her companion sat on an outside horse, in front of her. As the hobby-horses were going round witness saw a girl lying on the horse in front of her, and afterwards found out it was Miss Hinshelwood. She was dead.

Witness did not see any shooting ranges, and heard no shots.

John Kirk, plumber, Tighnabruaich, said he was at the Fair, and put his daughter on to one of the horses. It was the middle one beside Miss Hinshelwood. As the horses were going round his attention was drawn to the girl, who appeared to be sick. She fell off at his feet, and he went for a constable.

Annie Kirk corroborated.

Constable Cassels, Brodick, said he went to the hobby-horses, and found that the girl was dead. On his way thither he met Doctor J. H. Fullarton, who accompanied him.

The girl was removed to the waiting room for examination, and a small puncture was found on the left side under the ninth rib.

He returned to the fairground, and on examining the canvas sides of the booth found seven bullet punctures.

He was present at the post mortem examination the following day, when the bullet was located and extracted.

Doctor Fullarton certified that death was due to haemorrhage of the main artery.

The bullet was produced in court and identified, also five rifles and the canvas side of the booth.

Every inquiry was made as to who was shooting, but without success. A period had elapsed, and between 800 and 900 excursionists were in the place.

Inspector McKinven, Paisley, who was on special duty at the Fair, corroborated.

SHOOTING BOOTH PROCEDURE

Isabella Miller, who was employed at the shooting booth, said there was an iron plate at the back of the booth behind the bottles which were shot at and another one behind that. People who shot stood in front, and there was nothing to keep the crowd off them. None of those who shot was the worse of drink, but she refused one man a gun. As far as she saw they were all shooting in front.

Replying to questions by the Sheriff and the Fiscal, witness said that even when a repeating rifle was used she took it from the shooter after each shot for the purpose of adjustment.

Margaret Ramsay or Smith, also employed at the shooting booth, said that if a man paid a shilling she let him fire with a repeater till the twelve shots were out. If she saw cross shooting she stopped it. Theirs was the only booth at which cartridges were fired that night.

By the Fiscal – There were never any tests as to whether the guns fired straight or otherwise. She never heard of a stray shot in her life. The holes in the canvas side of the booth might be made by broken glass from the bottles, or by bullets. She thought the bullet produced in Court was a little bigger than theirs.

Constable Cassels, re-examined, said that the booth was 17 feet in length, and the hobby-horses were distant 41 feet 5 inches. One of the bullet holes in the canvas was 5 feet 2 inches from the ground, a height corresponding to that of the girl on the horse.

By Mr. Leechman – The booths were always in the same position. It never occurred to witness that they required protection at the sides if ordinary care was exercised in the shooting. His opinion was that someone had been shooting from the left side at the right-hand globe. There were no rules for the regulation of fairgrounds, and he had never been asked by the Chief Constable to see about arrangements for shooting booths. He thought it was safe enough if ordinary care was taken.

AN EXCURSIONIST’S EXPERIENCE

A. H. McChesney, Gourock, said he was at Brodick Fair and felt something strike him in the small of the back. He found his underclothes stained with blood, and discovered a bullet in the waist-band of his trousers. It had penetrated overcoat, jacket, waist-band of trousers, shirt, undershirt, and had pierced the skin. He was standing close to the hobby-horse, and had just come off one.

Constable Cassels, re-examined, said the same field had been used by the Fair ever since he came to Brodick.

Inspector McKinven, re-examined, said he did not consider that the booth was safe. The danger was not manifest to the eyes of an ordinary person.

Robert Gordon, head game-keeper, to the Marquis of Bute, said he had made experiments with both large and small rifles taken from the booth. With the small rifle he was able to send a bullet through a board five eighths of an inch thick at a distance of 100 yards. With the larger rifle the bullet went sideways at short distances. At larger distances he could not find the target at all.

By the Sheriff – From his experience he thought for the range both rifles were unnecessarily strong.

G. Laidlaw, Arran Estates Office, Brodick, said he never heard the subject of supervision mentioned in the office. No rent had ever been paid in his time.

Mr. Hobday having made a short statement, the jury were addressed by Mr. Leechman and Mr. Scott, and the Sheriff summed up.

After a brief absence the jury found that the girl Hinshelwood was killed by a rifle shot from Mr. Hobday’s booth, fired by one of the public. They also found that the rifles and ammunition used were unsuitable for shooting at a Fair, where crowds were collected.

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GLASGOW HERALD
11 JULY 1912

BATTLE OF LARGS MEMORIAL
INAUGURATION CEREMONY

The ceremony which marks the completion of the erection of a memorial to the 1263 Battle of Largs took place in the most boisterous and rainy weather yesterday.

The memorial, a copy of the ancient round tower near Brechin Cathedral, is erected on a rocky promontory on the shore to the south of Largs, and not far from the north-west entrance to Kelburn policies.