Saltcoats - On This Day In History

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EVENING TIMES
25 OCTOBER 1972

KNIFE YOUTH IS JAILED FOR LIFE

People who use a knife against their fellow citizens are not entitled to say, “We did not intend to kill” if death results.

High Court Judge Lord Stott told a murder jury this at Ayr today when Patrick Doherty, (19), was jailed for life for murder.

The judge said there was nothing peculiar about the law of self-defence. An attacked person could take whatever steps were necessary but retaliation must bear some sort of relationship to the danger.

The judge was summing up during the second day of the trial of Doherty, who was charged with murdering farm worker, Hugh Clarke, (18), of Beggs Terrace, Ardrossan, outside a Saltcoats Hotel on July 27.
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GLASGOW HERALD
26 OCTOBER 1904

MUNICIAL ELECTION – SALTCOATS

The following have been nominated for four vacancies: -

David Donaldson,
John Ross,
Francis M. Fowlis,
Hugh Blackley,
Robert McKirdy, and
John McLean.

Polling takes place on 1 November.
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GLASGOW HERALD
26 OCTOBER 1905

DEATH - McGREGOR

At 21 Montgomerie Crescent, Saltcoats, on the 25th instant, Alexander McGregor (of McGregor & Thomson, marine insurance brokers, Gordon Street, Glasgow).
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GLASGOW HERALD
26 OCTOBER 1910

MUNICIPAL ELECTION NOMINATIONS - SALTCOATS

Four candidates for three vacancies: –

Hugh Wylie Auld;
John Christie;
James Millar, junior; and
Peter William Hunter.
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GLASGOW HERALD
27 OCTOBER 1904

MARRIAGE – McGREGOR and LEGG

At Eglinton Arms Hotel, Ardrossan, on 25th instant, by the Rev. W. D. M. Sutherland, Landsborough U.F. Church, Saltcoats, assisted by the Rev. James Watt Purves, M.A., Erskine U.F. Church, Saltcoats, J. Ronald McGregor, to Mary Martin Legg, daughter of the late William Miller Legg, shipmaster, Saltcoats.
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GLASGOW HERALD
27 OCTOBER 1906

BIRTH - ALLAN

At Rockbank, Saltcoats, on 25th instant, the wife of W. Carrick Allan, M.D.; a daughter.
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GLASGOW HERALD
27 OCTOBER 1908

MARRIAGE – BRYSON and McPHERSON

At 42 Boyd Street, Largs, on 23rd instant, by the Rev. J. C. B. Geddes, St. John’s United Free Church, James Bryson, Saltcoats, to Jessie McPherson and Mrs McPherson, Polmaddy, Saltcoats.
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GLASGOW HERALD
27 OCTOBER 1981

MAN CHARGED WITH MURDER

A 37-year-old deaf and dumb man appeared in private at Kilmarnock Sheriff Court yesterday on a murder charge.

William Mair, a pipe fitter, of Giffen Road, Saltcoats, Ayrshire, was accused of murdering 17-year-old Helen Sinclair and attempting to murder her mother, Mrs Yvonne Sinclair, in their home in Howat Crecent, Irvine, Ayrshire.

The women were found in their bungalow on Sunday morning with severe head injuries. Helen died yesterday in the Southern General Hospital, Glasgow, and Mrs Sinclair is still “critical”.

A social worker interpreted for Mair who made no plea.
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GLASGOW HERALD
28 OCTOBER 1903

MUNICIPAL ELECTION AT SALTCOATS – NOMINATIONS

Six candidates for three seats, viz: -

T. Miller, builder;
A. Crawford;
H. Arnott;
P. W. Hunter;
W. B. Knox, grocer; and
Hugh Blackley, builder.

The first three are old members.
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GLASGOW HERALD
28 OCTOBER 1904

NATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN

At a meeting in Saltcoats Town Hall yesterday – Provost Blakely in the chair – an address was given by Mr McDonald, of the Scottish Branch.

It was afterwards decided to form a North Ayrshire Branch, an executive committee being appointed to carry out the work.

Provost Blakely was elected president and Mr J. J. Boyd Gilmour, secretary.
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GLASGOW HERALD
28 OCTOBER 1913

DEATH OF SALTCOATS SHIPMASTER

One of the oldest shipmasters in Saltcoats, Captain Charles Torrance, Melbourne Terrace, died very suddenly at half-past nine yesterday morning. He had been out of doors and was talking to a friend at the back gate of his garden when he fell down and expired.

At one time he was in the Allan Line, and afterwards, when he became a shipmaster, he sailed in the West India trade from Greenock. On leaving the sea he interested himself in public affairs, first in the Parish Council, of which for many years he was a member, and later in the Town Council. His leisure was given to his garden, and he was a successful cultivator of flowers.

In a few days he would have entered his 77th year.
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GLASGOW HERALD
29 OCTOBER 1902

MUNICIPAL ELECTION AT SALTCOATS – NOMINATIONS

The following have been nominated: -

Alexander Guthrie,
Robert Blakely,
William Mather,
W. R. Bogle,
P. W. Hunter, and
Charles McCulloch.

The first three are old members. There are three vacancies.
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