FIFE HERALD – THURSDAY 13TH OCTOBER 1859
DUNFERMLINE: SHERIFF COURT
On Tuesday, Elizabeth McAninie was charged with a breach of the peace, having, on Saturday the 8th current, broken a pane, or tow panes, of glass in the window of a public house in Cairneyhill, kept by Mr McPherson, and had likewise acted in a riotous manner at the door of said public house.
The prisoner hesitated for a time, whether to plead guilty or not. She had got great provocation. This was the first time she been brought up, and she hoped they would be merciful to her. At last she pled guilty, and Mr Aw. Beveridge explained that the prisoner had been shoved to the door by the publican’s wife, while her husband, who was very drunk at the time, was kept in within and supplied with whisky, and that, in her endeavours to get him out, she had thrust her arm through a pain of the window by mere accident. Since that time her husband had left her, and she had not a farthing in the world to pay a fine with.
Sentence – imprisonment for 24 hours.
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