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I seen this years ago but had forgot all about it, came across it today again. Maybe evoke some memories.

Those wimin were in the nip.
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Penny Tray wrote: Sun Jan 01, 2017 12:02 pm PAISLEY CINEMA HORROR
69 CHILDREN PERISH AT HOGMANAY MATINEE
TRAMPLED TO DEATH IN PANIC
59 OTHERS INJURED IN STRUGGLE FOR LIFE
HARROWING SCENES AT THE INFIRMARY

Scenes of anguish and horror were witnessed in the Glen Cinema, Paisley, yesterday, when 69 children were killed and 59 others were injured as the result of panic which arose suddenly on the call of “Fire.”

About 2000 boys and girls mostly from working-class homes were witnessing a Hogmanay matinee performance in the cinema shortly after two o’clock, when dense smoke, caused by a film which had caught fire in the spool room, were swept into the theatre from the vestibule.
GLASGOW HERALD
19 JULY 1930

PAISLEY CINEMA DISASTER
COMPENSATION FOR BEREAVED PARENTS

It was officially announced yesterday that Mr. T. M. Weir, solicitor of the firm Messrs Brown, Ferguson & Company, Glasgow, has now settled all claims for compensation in connection with the deaths of 70 children who lost their lives in the disaster at the Glen Cinema, Paisley, on Hogmanay last.

The compensation, it is understood, amounts to £60 for each child.

Negotiations in this matter have been proceeding for a considerable period, and the majority of the parents were legally represented.
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23 JULY 1917

DEATH ON SERVICE

STEVENS: At Royal Infirmary, on 21st July, after an operation, Private BRIGHT STEVENS, Canadians, aged 28, second son of J. C. Stevens, St. Ives, Seamill.
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CASUALTY OF WAR
31 JULY 1917

Killed in action, Private ROBERT LOGAN, 10th Battalion Cameronians - Theatre of war, France and Flanders - born West Kilbride.
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GLASGOW HERALD
1 AUGUST 1906

INQUEST

An inquest was held at Carlisle yesterday as to the death of Dr. JOHN McCALLUM STEWART, one of the resident Medical Officers at Smithston Poorhouse and Asylum, Greenock, who had been found at an early hour on Tuesday on the railway about one mile north of Carlisle Station.

Our Greenock correspondent said:

Dr. Stewart left St. Enoch Station, Glasgow, with the 9.30 express on Monday night for London, where he intended to spend his holidays.

He belonged to Barrhead, coming to Greenock about 18 months ago from Saltcoats.

He was aged about thirty-two years.
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Not a relative of ours as far as I know. His mum or one of his grannies was probably a McCallum but not necessary from Saltcoats - saying that, there are a few of our members with Saltcoats McCallum connections.

Wonder what the result of the autopsy was.
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Hughie wrote: Tue Aug 01, 2017 10:35 pm
Wonder what the result of the autopsy was.
Hughie,

It doesn't read like a post-mortem examination was demanded.

This added information however, perhaps clarifies the circumstances surrounding the death:-

"On the arrival at Carlisle of the 9.30 express from St. Enoch it was observed that one of the doors of a corridor carriage on the non-corridor side was open.

The ticket examiner who travelled with the train had noticed that the carriage was occupied by a passenger, who slept during the greater part of the journey.

Instructions were given to have the line searched, and the passenger was found lying on the permanent way near Kingmoor engine-sheds. He was unconscious, and died shortly after his removal to the infirmary.....It is supposed the deceased had been awakened by the slowing down of the train as it approached Carlisle, and, desiring to enter the corridor, had opened the wrong door and stepped out on to the line.....The jury returned a verdict of accidental death."
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Thanks, Penny.
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GLASGOW HERALD
7 AUGUST 1935

GLASGOW RESET CHARGE
THOUSANDS OF ARTICLES INVOLVED
DEALER BEFORE HIGH COURT

The trial of a Glasgow dealer, Joseph Myers, on a charge of reset involving 196,620 articles of cheap jewellery opened yesterday before Lord Moncrieff at a sitting of the High Court of Justiciary in the North Court of the Justiciary Buildings, Glasgow.

[This is the first of a series of articles that will lead to an incident in Largs.]
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Penny Tray wrote: Mon Aug 07, 2017 8:11 am GLASGOW HERALD
7 AUGUST 1935

GLASGOW RESET CHARGE
THOUSANDS OF ARTICLES INVOLVED
DEALER BEFORE HIGH COURT

The trial of a Glasgow dealer, Joseph Myers, on a charge of reset involving 196,620 articles of cheap jewellery opened yesterday before Lord Moncrieff at a sitting of the High Court of Justiciary in the North Court of the Justiciary Buildings, Glasgow.

[This is the first of a series of articles that will lead to an incident in Largs.]
GLASGOW HERALD
8 AUGUST 1935

SENTENCE ON DEALER
PENAL SERVITUDE FOR GLASGOW MAN
CHARGE INVOLVING 196,000 ARTICLES

Joseph Myers, a Glasgow dealer, was sentenced to three years’ penal servitude by Lord Moncrieff at the High Court of Justiciary in Glasgow yesterday, when he was found guilty by a majority verdict, after a trial lasting for two days, of resetting 196,620 articles of cheap jewellery.

…..Myers said that when he started dealing in jewellery early in 1932, he obtained supplies at weekly auction sales. During that year he was approached by a man named Sloan who was a witness for the prosecution. Sloan offered to supply him with goods direct, and Myers on making inquiry, found that he could build up a market for them…..Myers stated that he never tried to find out Sloan’s source of supply…..
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Penny Tray wrote: Tue Aug 08, 2017 8:04 am
Penny Tray wrote: Mon Aug 07, 2017 8:11 am GLASGOW HERALD
7 AUGUST 1935

GLASGOW RESET CHARGE
THOUSANDS OF ARTICLES INVOLVED
DEALER BEFORE HIGH COURT

The trial of a Glasgow dealer, Joseph Myers, on a charge of reset involving 196,620 articles of cheap jewellery opened yesterday before Lord Moncrieff at a sitting of the High Court of Justiciary in the North Court of the Justiciary Buildings, Glasgow.

[This is the first of a series of articles that will lead to an incident in Largs.]
GLASGOW HERALD
8 AUGUST 1935

SENTENCE ON DEALER
PENAL SERVITUDE FOR GLASGOW MAN
CHARGE INVOLVING 196,000 ARTICLES

Joseph Myers, a Glasgow dealer, was sentenced to three years’ penal servitude by Lord Moncrieff at the High Court of Justiciary in Glasgow yesterday, when he was found guilty by a majority verdict, after a trial lasting for two days, of resetting 196,620 articles of cheap jewellery.

…..Myers said that when he started dealing in jewellery early in 1932, he obtained supplies at weekly auction sales. During that year he was approached by a man named Sloan who was a witness for the prosecution. Sloan offered to supply him with goods direct, and Myers on making inquiry, found that he could build up a market for them…..Myers stated that he never tried to find out Sloan’s source of supply…..
GLASGOW HERALD
9 AUGUST 1935

DOUBLE TRAGEDY AT LARGS
COUPLE DIE FROM THROAT WOUNDS

Largs was the scene of a double tragedy last night, when a well-dressed man and woman, both aged about 45 years died from throat wounds…..Their bodies were taken to the mortuary at Saltcoats, and at an early hour this morning the Largs Police were still seeking information as to the identity of the couple, who are believed to have come from Glasgow.
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Penny Tray wrote: Wed Aug 09, 2017 7:06 am
Penny Tray wrote: Tue Aug 08, 2017 8:04 am
Penny Tray wrote: Mon Aug 07, 2017 8:11 am GLASGOW HERALD
7 AUGUST 1935

GLASGOW RESET CHARGE
THOUSANDS OF ARTICLES INVOLVED
DEALER BEFORE HIGH COURT

The trial of a Glasgow dealer, Joseph Myers, on a charge of reset involving 196,620 articles of cheap jewellery opened yesterday before Lord Moncrieff at a sitting of the High Court of Justiciary in the North Court of the Justiciary Buildings, Glasgow.

[This is the first of a series of articles that will lead to an incident in Largs.]
GLASGOW HERALD
8 AUGUST 1935

SENTENCE ON DEALER
PENAL SERVITUDE FOR GLASGOW MAN
CHARGE INVOLVING 196,000 ARTICLES

Joseph Myers, a Glasgow dealer, was sentenced to three years’ penal servitude by Lord Moncrieff at the High Court of Justiciary in Glasgow yesterday, when he was found guilty by a majority verdict, after a trial lasting for two days, of resetting 196,620 articles of cheap jewellery.

…..Myers said that when he started dealing in jewellery early in 1932, he obtained supplies at weekly auction sales. During that year he was approached by a man named Sloan who was a witness for the prosecution. Sloan offered to supply him with goods direct, and Myers on making inquiry, found that he could build up a market for them…..Myers stated that he never tried to find out Sloan’s source of supply…..
GLASGOW HERALD
9 AUGUST 1935

DOUBLE TRAGEDY AT LARGS
COUPLE DIE FROM THROAT WOUNDS

Largs was the scene of a double tragedy last night, when a well-dressed man and woman, both aged about 45 years died from throat wounds…..Their bodies were taken to the mortuary at Saltcoats, and at an early hour this morning the Largs Police were still seeking information as to the identity of the couple, who are believed to have come from Glasgow.
GLASGOW HERALD
10 AUGUST 1935

LARGS TRAGEDY DEVELOPMENT
BODIES OF WOMAN AND MAN IDENTIFIED
WITNESS IN HIGH COURT TRIAL
ECHO OF GLASGOW TRIAL FOR RESET

The identity was established yesterday of the man and woman who died from throat wounds at Largs late on Thursday night. They were:-

WILLIAM GRAHAM SLOAN, (48), MARRIED, 59 Garngad Hill, Glasgow, and

MARGARET MUIRHEAD or COWAN, (51), widow, 502 Hamilton Road, Broomhouse, Glasgow.

Sloan was the principal prosecution witness in the recent trial at Glasgow High Court when a dealer was sentenced to three years’ penal servitude for the reset of a large quantity of jewellery.

Mrs. Cowan was also cited as a witness at the trial, but owing to the state of her health, she did not give evidence.

Sloan and Mrs. Cowan were both concerned in an earlier case at Glasgow Sheriff Court, and were sentenced to terms of imprisonment for the theft of a considerable amount of jewellery from a Glasgow warehouse.

The dealer who appeared at the High Court was charged with having resetted that jewellery.

Mrs. Sloan, the wife of the dead man, in the course of an interview, indicated that there had been domestic differences on account of Sloan’s association with Mrs. Cowan.

Sloan, who was the tenant of a piggery at Auchenairn Road, Bishopbriggs, left his home on Thursday afternoon for the ostensible purpose of purchasing pigs, and his family were unaware he had travelled to Largs. He leaves a family of five.

Mrs. Cowan, who was a widow, also leaves a family of five.
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