Crime in Cairneyhill

Dear blog reader

I do hope you find this compilation of reports of Cairneyhill crime interesting.

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Jacqueline

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FIFE HERALD, THURSDAY 31ST OCTOBER 1844

ASSAULT

On Sabbath evening as a respectable person was coming home from Cairneyhill, he saw two men fighting by the wayside, one of whom was down; he took off the assailant, only, however, to be assailed himself by the fellow, who, being assisted by another comrade, beat him unmercifully about the head and face, and then made off. The police are on the search for the cowardly rascals.

THE SCOTSMAN, WEDNESDAY 17TH NOVEMBER 1897

THE GUN LICENCE

Before Sheriff Gillespie, at Dunfermline yesterday, John Downie, mason, Cairneyhill, was charged with having used a gun for the purposes of killing game without having taken out a licence. He was convicted on evidence, and fined £2, with the alternative of ten days’ imprisonment.

LEVEN ADVERTISER & WEMYSS GAZETTE, SATURDAY 19TH JANUARY 1929

STOLE FOR THE SAKE OF THE CHILDREN

Sentence of seven days’ imprisonment for the theft of 14 lb of potatoes was imposed by Sheriff Umpherston at Dunfermline on Monday on Thomas Sneddon, miner, Cairneyhill, who gave as an excuse that he was unemployed, and stole the potatoes for the sake of the children.

The potatoes were stolen on Saturday in a field on South Pitdinnie Farm, Cairneyhill, belonging to the Dunfermline Co-Operative Society.