28 April 2013

Circuit Court Trials, Perth

At the Circuit Court at Perth, on Wednesday last, Robert Ruxton, Jean McMillan, and Elizabeth Beattie, were found guilty of abetting and aiding the riots which lately disgraced the town of Montrose.  Ruxton was sentenced to banishment for seven years beyond seas - McMillan six months in the jail of Forfar - and Beattie four months in the jail of Montrose.

Published in the Aberdeen Journal, Wednesday 28th April 1813.

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