1899 Edinburgh Evening News article lookup

[edempster]

This isn't exactly a Cumberland request, but there wasn't a Midlothian request board that I could find, and the family I'm researching is from Cumberland, so oh well! I would be so grateful if anyone could do a newspaper  look-up of the December 30th, 1899 issue of the Edinburgh Evening News. The specific article is "Traced Footsteps in Snow," about the conviction of John Bell for assault. I believe it is about my great-great-grandfather.

Thanks again.

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[Geoff-E]

Hi edempster, welcome to RootsChat!

He was John Wm BELL, Plasterer of Roughrigg, Slamannan, jailed for 30 days for assault of a female farm servant at Southshield Farm, Slamannan on 25 December.

[rosie99]

Hi

Welcome to rootschat.

FindMyPast and BNA were running an offer of £1 for a month, I don't know if they are still valid.  Their T&C's don't allow us to do look ups

FindMyPast was   ancestryhour16

[isobelw]

Article in Evening News concerns John William Bell of Roughrigg, Slamannan who got 30 days in jail for assaulting a female servant  at Southshield Farm, Slamannan on 25th Dec. Traced by footsteps in the snow.
Isobel

[edempster]

Thank you all so much! How very strange--I was sure that this was the right man, but the details don't quite add up. A later conviction for assault lists a previous conviction at the Falkirk Sheriff's Court on 29th December 1899, with 30 days imprisonment, but my John Bell never gave a sign of having a middle name, and I've no idea what he would be doing in Scotland. Does anyone have any clue why a bricklayer (could a bricklayer/mason be interchangeable with a plasterer?) from Cockermouth would end up in Roughrigg? He was arrested on February 2nd, 1900 (right after his 30 days would have been up) in England for an assault that occurred in Cumberland in September 1899--I suppose he could have been on the run in Scotland in the interim.  Or were mistakes ever made in trial logs--could the magistrate somehow have received word of this John William Bell's conviction and made an incorrect connection?