Murder of Elizabeth Cruickshank

MURDER!!! REWARD.

WHEREAS, on the night of Thursday the 24th. or early on the morning of Friday the 25th. instant, ELIZABETH CRUICKSHANK, a Lunatic, belonging to PETERHEAD, was barbarously Stabbed and  Wounded, in one or other of the streets of that place, by some person unknown, in consequence of which she has since died:

A REWARD OF TEN GUINEAS

is hereby offered to any one who will give such information to Robert Robertson, Esq. Peterhead; or Hugh Fullerton, Advocate in Aberdeen, Procurator Fiscal of the County, as may lead to a discovery and conviction of the perpetrator of the said atrocious crime.

Aberdeen, 18th Dec. 1812.

Published int he Aberdeen Journal, Wednesday 30th December 1812.

John Melvin accused of murder

On Monday last, the Circuit Court of Justiciary was opened here, by the Right Hon. Lord MEADOWBANK.  The only trial before his Lordship was that of John Melvin, residing near the Printfield, acused of the murder of William Shepherd, on the 8th of August last.  The pannel pled Not Guilty, and the case having been remitted to the verdict of an assize; after a trial which lasted the greatest part of the day, the jury returned a verdict of Not Proven, upon which the pannel, after a suitable admonition from the bench, was absoilzied and dismissed from the bar.  It appeared in evidence, that the deceased had met his death in a drunken scuffle at the last Greenburn Market, having received several mortal cuts in the groin, of which he died in two days afterwards.

Published in the Aberdeen Journal, Wednesday 25th September, 1811.