On Monday last, in consequence of a complaint, at the instance of the Procurator Fiscal of Court, the Justices of Peace here passed sentence against John Roger and George Cockburn, to pay a fine of Five Pounds each, or to be confined two months in Bridewell unless the fines are sooner paid, in terms of the Police and Watch Act, for an assault and outrage on the person of Mr Baird, in the Watch House, while discharging his official duty as Superintendant of the Watch of this City.
Published in the Aberdeen Journal, Wednesday 21st July 1819.
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