Convictions for theft and receipt of stolen goods

On Monday last, Robert Christie, mariner on board the brig Pallas, was charged, on a complaint at the instance of the Procurator Fiscal, with having, in the course of the preceding night, stolen part of the stores of that Vessel, consisting of barley and meal.  Mrs Snodgrass, wife of an Ale Seller in Town, was also charged with having resetted the barley and meal, knowing the same to have been stolen; Of which they were both convicted, and sentenced by the Sitting Magistrate to confinement and hard labour in Bridewell; Christie for 4 months, and Mrs Snodgrass, for 2 months.

Published in the Aberdeen Journal, Wednesday 14th April 1819.

REWARD OF FIVE GUINEAS.

WHEREAS upon the night betwixt the 18th and 19th days of July last, the Sloop ANN of this Port, while lying at or near the Lime Quay, was broken into, and a variety of articles stolen and feloniously carried off therefrom: - And Whereas there is reason to suspect that WILLIAM MILLER, Mariner in Aberdeen, was implicated in committing the said crime.

A REWARD OF FIVE GUINEAS

Is hereby offered to any person who shall give such information to Alexander Cadenhead, Advocate in Aberdeen, Procurator Fiscal of the City and Liberties thereof, as may lead to the apprehending of the said William Miller; the Reward to be payable on conviction.

The said William Miller is a man of very low stature, and either a native of or was some time ago residing in Glasgow; and Married, as is believed, to a woman of that place.  He worked for some time in Aberdeen as a labourer; and is of a dark complexion.

COUNCIL CHAMBER, ABERDEEN

26th August, 1816.

Published in the Aberdeen Journal, Wednesday 4th September 1816.