Saltcoats - On This Day In History

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GLASGOW HERALD
23 OCTOBER 1883

DEATH

McCREADIE: Suddenly at Saltcoats, on the 20th instant, aged 70, ANDREW McCREADIE, salmon fisher, for 44 years the faithful servant and friend of Messrs. Main & Son.

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GLASGOW HERALD
23 OCTOBER 1883

DEATH

BOYD: At Windmill Street, Saltcoats, on the 21st instant, in his 80th year, HUGH BOYD, formerly of Montreal.

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GLASGOW HERALD
23 OCTOBER 1889

BIRTH

WYLIE: At the Border, Saltcoats, on the 21st instant, the wife of William Wylie; a daughter.

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GLASGOW HERALD
22 OCTOBER 1897

DEATH

ARMOUR: At 58 Hamilton Street, Saltcoats, on the 21st instant, ANDREW B. ARMOUR, inspector of poor and registrar.

GLASGOW HERALD
23 OCTOBER 1897

SALTCOATS - DEATH OF INSPECTOR OF POOR

Mr A. B. Armour, who has been Inspector of Poor for about 14 years, has died after an illness extending over several months. He was an able and painstaking official, and besides his ordinary duties interested himself in evangelistic work in the town.

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23rd OCTOBER 1970

AT THE CINEMAS

REGAL

Tonight and Saturday

Beneath the Planet of the Apes ( AA ) 8.30pm and Saturday matinee at 2 pm

Also Money Jungle ( U ) 7pm only

Monday 26th October ALL WEEK

The Kremlin Letter ( X ) starring Bibi Andersson, Richard Boone and Nigel Greene 8.05 pm

Also Jerry Lewis in Way, Way Out ( A ) 6.10 pm

" The Kremlin Letter " ( all week ) is a thriller spy story with a suicide, two executions, one seduction and the key to the plot in the first 5 minutes. The plot is centred around a letter agreeing that Russia and the West join in destroying China's nuclear installations. It had been mistakenly signed by America and then lost by a Russian agent who committed suicide. Both Russia and America set up teams of men to find it. Rone ( Patrick O'Neal ) heads the Americans' team of " characters " while his counterparts in Russia are Bresnavitch ( Orson Welles ) and Kosnov ( Max von Sydow ) . It is hard to tell who is on which side however, as surprise follows surprise and the ending is a masterly twist which leaves one wondering .


LA SCALA

Tonight and Saturday

George Peppard and Joan Collins in The Executioners ( A ) 8.21 pm

and James Garner in The Man Called Sledge ( AA ) 6.30 pm

Sunday 25th October at 7pm

Brian Donleavy, Jack Warner in The Quatermass Experiment ( X )

also Dean Jagger in The Unknown ( X )

Monday 26th October ALL WEEK

Kevin Coughlin, Larry Casey in The Gay Deceivers ( X ) 8.33 pm

Also William Smith and Valerie Starrett in Run, Angel, Run ( X ) 6.45 pm

" The Gay Deceivers " ( all week ) is a hilarious comedy about two young boys about to be drafted into the Army. They are Danny and Elliot, who in filling out their draft forms indicate that they may be homosexuals. Dixon ( Jack Starrat ) the Army officer tells them they can go free. Dixon watches them however, and so they have to give up their girl friends and set up housekeeping together. Situations develop rapidly and unexpectedly; they seems to get a great deal of friendly visits from their landlord and his friend Sebastian while a visit from Danny's parents, Elliot's girl friend and Danny's sister and fiancee results in chaos and a surprise ending.


COUNTESS

Tonight and Saturday

Secret of Santa Vittorio ( AA ) Saturday matinee 2 pm

Monday 26th October Nightly at 6.30 pm

Lee van Cleef and Warren Oates in Barquero ( X )

Also Ray Milland in Hostile Witness ( U )

Thursday 29th October continuous from 5.45 pm Saturday matinee at 2 pm

An all Beatles programme

Let It Be ( U ) and Yellow Submarine ( U )

" Barquero " ( Monday to Wednesday ) is a Western set in 1870 in Arizona. Remy ( Warren Oates ) and Marquette ( Kerwin Mathews ) are the joint leaders of a band of mercenaries who raid towns for blood, lust and loot. They meet trouble, however, in the shape of the bargeman or Barquero, Travis ( Lee van Cleef ) who defies them with the aid of his friend Mountain Phil ( Forrest Tucker ). A double Beatles programme is showing Thursday until Saturday . " Let It Be " is a feature film giving an intimate view of the Beatles as musicians and performers, and shows them relaxing and philosophising, a must for all their fans. " Yellow Submarine " is crazy, and full of typical Beatle wit, with many of their most popular songs.

Ardrossan and Saltcoats Herald, 23rd October 1970

Susan

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GLASGOW HERALD
24 OCTOBER 1883

COURT OF SESSION
ROBERT BRYCE v. THE SHIP FALLS OF CLYDE COMPANY (LIMITED) AND OTHERS

Some time ago the pursuer, who resides at Bayview Cottage, Saltcoats, brought an action to have it declared that certain shares in the Falls of Clyde belonging to his son, formerly master of the FALLS OF AFTON, had been transferred to him, and that he was entitled to the profits arising upon these shares.

Defenders resisted the action, and stated that in July 1882, an action had been raised by the owners of the FALLS OF AFTON against Thomas Bryce, son of the pursuer here, for £2779, as the damage sustained by them through the wrongful abandonment of that ship, and that with the object of defeating pursuers in that action, the bill of sale of the shares had been effected.

Today intimation was made that both actions had been settled.

In the first case the father obtains declaratory as asked for, and in the second case the son has been assoilzied, in terms of a joint minute.

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CASUALTY OF WAR
24 OCTOBER 1918

Died in service, Private JAMES HARKINS, (33), 1st Battalion Cameronians – Theatre of war, France and Flanders – husband of Mrs Harkins, and father of four young children, 66 Raise Street, Saltcoats.

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CASUALTY OF WAR
25 OCTOBER 1918

CASUALTY OF WAR
25 OCTOBER 1918

Died of fever on service, Lance Corporal JOHN AITKEN, (35), Service No. S/4749, 4th Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders – Theatre of war, Home – born at and resident of Saltcoats; enlisted at Ardrossan; son of John and Marion Gemmell Aitken, later of Quay Street, Saltcoats; husband of Mary Dorien Aitken.

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CASUALTY OF WAR
25 OCTOBER 1918

Died as a result of fever, Lance Corporal JOHN AITKEN, (35), 4th Battalion Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders – Theatre of war, home – husband of the late Marion Gemmell Aitken, Quay Street, Saltcoats.

I think this may be a relative of Bobby's. Will need to look out the family tree.

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GLASGOW HERALD
26 OCTOBER 1880

DEATH

KENNEDY: At 13 Hamilton Street, Saltcoats, on the 24th instant, MARGARET RAMSAY, relict of David Kennedy, aged 78.

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GLASGOW HERALD
26 OCTOBER 1888

BIRTH

TAYLOR: At Raise Street, Saltcoats, on the 25th instant, Mrs. Thomas Taylor; a daughter.

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EVENING TIMES
16 JULY 1966

TWO WOMEN FOUND SHOT DEAD IN SALTCOATS

Two women were found shot dead today in a house at 1 Hirst Place, Saltcoats, Ayrshire.

A man is in custody and will appear in Kilmarnock Sheriff Court on Monday.

GLASGOW HERALD
18 JULY 1966

DEAD WOMEN – MAN IN COURT TODAY

A man will appear in court at Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, today in connection with the deaths at the week-end of two women.

The women, whom police yesterday still refused to identify, were found in the back bedroom of a ground floor two-roomed flat at 1 Hirst Place, Saltcoats, on Saturday.

Detectives broke into the house. Shortly afterwards they said a man was in custody.

It is believed the victims were Mrs Peggy Cantwell, aged 44, of 15 Cochrane Street, Paisley, and her sister, Mrs Susan Cochrane, of Leicester, who had been staying with Mrs Cantwell on holiday.

EVENING TIMES
18 JULY 1966

BROTHER ACCUSED OF DOUBLE MURDER

JAMES FIDDES, (42), 1 Hirst Place, Saltcoats, appeared at Kilmarnock Sheriff Court today charged with murdering his two middle-aged sisters.

The sisters were SUSAN FIDDES or COCHRANE, 8 Quebec Road, Leicester, and MARGARET FIDDES or CANTWELL, 15 Cochrane Street, Paisley, were found shot dead in the house at 1 Hirst Place, on Saturday morning.

Sheriff R. N. Levitt, remanded Fiddes in custody for further inquiries.

GLASGOW HERALD
15 OCTOBER 1966

MAN CHARGED WITH DOUBLE MURDER

JAMES FIDDES, (42), appeared at a High Court pleading diet at Kilmarnock yesterday charged with the murder of his two sisters.

The charge read: -

“You are indicted that you did on July 16, 1966, in the house occupied by you at 1 Hirst Place, Saltcoats, assault your sisters, Susan Fiddes or Cochrane, aged 49, 8 Quebec Road, Leicester, and Margaret Fiddes or Cantwell, aged 45, 15 Cochrane Street, Paisley, and did discharge a loaded shotgun at them and shoot them, and you did murder them.”

An agent for Fiddes tendered a plea of guilty to culpably homicide.

The case was adjourned to a sitting of the High Court in Ayr on October 25.

GLASGOW HERALD
26 OCTOBER 1966

PROSECUTOR TELLS OF SHOTGUN AT PARTY BEFORE SHOOTING

Ayr High Court with Lord Hunter presiding, yesterday heard of a drinking party in a house at Saltcoats, Ayrshire, at which a shotgun was shown to guests. A few hours later two middle-aged sisters were found dead in the house.

Before the court was JAMES FIDDES, (42), 1 Hirst Place, Saltcoats.

Mr. R. C. MacArthur, Advocate, defending, tendered a plea of guilty to culpable homicide and this was accepted by Mr. Donald Macaulay, Advocate-depute, prosecuting, because of medical reports.

The two sisters, Susan Fiddes or Cochrane, 8 Quebec Road, Leicester, and Margaret Fiddes or Cantwell, 15 Cochrane Street, Paisley, were found dead in the house at 1 Hirst Place on July 16.

ILL-FEELING

Mr. Macaulay told the Court that since the accused’s mother’s death in June there had been ill-feeling between Fiddes and his sisters regarding the mother’s estate – the house and £450.

“On the night before the sisters died he had been in their company. They had been drinking.”

After that there was a party at the house which was attended by neighbours. More drink was taken, Mr. Macaulay said. Fiddes was in high spirits and there had been no sign of ill-feeling.

Fiddes danced with one of the sisters. The party broke up about 2 a.m. He was next seen at a neighbour’s house at about 4 a.m. and he indicated he had been locked out of his house.

At 8.50 a.m. the daughter of Mrs. Cochrane received a telephone call from Fiddes. He told his niece that his sisters had been in Saltcoats the previous night. “I was out drinking with them. They told me they were going to take the house from me,” Fiddes was alleged to have said.

His niece replied: - “I don’t think they can do that.” Fiddes said: - “They can’t. I’ve shot both of them. I’m going down to the police station.”

Mr. Macaulay said neighbours heard two noises at about 3 a.m. but had thought of them as merely the aftermath of the party. “The gun that was involved was in the house at the party and was readily visible to everyone.” It had been shown to guests.

In reply to Lord Hunter, Mr. Macaulay said he had accepted the pleas of culpable homicide on the grounds of diminished responsibility and with regard to Fiddes’s background and history.

Lord Hunter said he would not want to proceed to sentencing if there was any possibility that further information might be available to the Court and continued the case to a sitting of the High Court in Edinburgh on November 4.