Offenders sentenced to imprisonment

In the course of the last fortnight, the following persons have been sentenced to confinement and hard labour in Bridewell, and other wise punished, as follows, viz. :-

Elizabeth Birnie, for striking and maltreating a Woman, to the effusion of her blood, to thirty days confinement in Bridewell.

Janet Allan, and Elizabeth McMillan, for stealing linen from a Bleach-green at Ferryhill, to three calendar months confinement there.

Mark Aikman, (an old offender), for breaking into several Weaving Shops in Aberdeen, and stealing therefrom, a considerable quantity of Cotton and other Cloths, to six calendar months confinement in Bridewell, and to receive one hundred lashes by the hands of the common Executioner - fifty, at the expiry of three months, and the remaining fifty, before his liberation.  And he is, over and above, banished the burgh and liberties for two years.

James Scott, a vagrant, without any visible means of subsistence, for going into a public-house near the  lime bason, and conducting himself in an improper manner, breaking windows, collecting a crowd of people on the streets, &c. was sentenced to two months confinement and hard labour in Bridewell, and banished the burgh for life.

Published in the Aberdeen Journal, Wednesday 26th May 1819.