Servant fined at Ellon

JUSTICE OF PEACE COURT
At a Justice of Peace Court, lately held at Ellon, a Servant who had engaged for the Summer half-year with Alexander Findlay, at Little Mains of Auchleuchries, but who refused to enter upon her service, was fined in the mitigated penalty of £1. 10s. sterling, the Wages engaged for having been £2. 10s. sterling.  The action was brought for insolent conduct, and the penalty afterwards generously given to the poor of the parish.

Published in The Aberdeen Journal, Wednesday 10th October, 1810.

CIRCUIT INTELLIGENCE

The Circuit Court of Justiciary was opened at Inverness on Thursday last, by the Right Hon. the Lord Justice Clerk, when - Alexander Gillan, from the parish of Speymouth in Elgin-shire, accused of murder and rape, committed on the body of Elspet Lamb, a girl under eleven years of age, was brought to the bar.  The pannel pleaded not guilty, and after the examination of several witnesses the Jury were inclosed, and returned a verdict all in one voice, finding him guilty.

Fannie or Frances Manson, late servant to John Ross, Vintner in Tain, accused of child-murder and concealment of pregnancy, was next brought to the bar.  The Advocate Depute restricted the libel to an Arbitrary punishment, and the pannel pleaded guilty to the latter charge.

Alexander McDonald, tenant in Crochal, accused of sheep-stealing, was found guilty on his own confession, the Advocate-depute restricted the libel to an arbitrary punishment.

Published in The Aberdeen Journal, Wednesday 3rd October 1810.