Ardeer Square, Stevenston

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GLASGOW HERALD
27 JUNE 1922

DROWNING

ANDREW TODD, (2½), son of Hugh Todd, farm servant, Ardeer Square, Stevenston, was drowned in a pond near his home on Sunday.

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GLASGOW HERALD
25 MARCH 1933

BLACK SPOT IN AYRSHIRE

Seven men residing in Ardeer Square, Stevenston – HUGH MURPHY, labourer; PATRICK COYLE, labourer; BERNARD McCANN, miner; WILLIAM WEST, labourer; JOHN MILLER, labourer; DANIEL GRAHAM, labourer; and GEORGE MURRAY, labourer – pleaded guilty at Kilmarnock Sheriff Court yesterday to charges of stealing goods from railway vans and waggons in Ardeer East sidings, Stevenston.

The goods included 30 dozen eggs; 17cwt. Of coal, and 4 cwt. of briquettes.

Sheriff Martin Laing said that the people in that district had not shown a very high sense of honesty. This was one of the black spots of Ayrshire, according to his experience. More cases of dishonesty came from that quarter than from any part of the Sheriffdom over which he had the honour to preside. Conduct of this kind was not going to be tolerated.

The sentences imposed were as follow: -

McCann, fined £2, or 14 days’ imprisonment;
West, Miller, and Graham, each fined £3 or 20 days’ imprisonment;
Murray (one previous conviction), 30 days’ imprisonment;
Coyle (three previous convictions), three months’ imprisonment;
Murphy (four previous convictions), four months’ imprisonment.