June 30, 2025 • 15 mins
In this episode of Scotland Then, we highlight newspaper stories from The Scotsman from 1932, covers various tragic events, accidents, and murders. Notable stories include the fate of Betty Gow, the Scottish nanny in the Lindbergh case, and the murder trial of George Dollin.
The episode concludes by previewing upcoming episodes, including the murder of Elizabeth Campbell in 1932 and the unsolved/solved? case of Aileen Printie in 1981.
Listeners are also introduced to Mike from the Murder Mile UK True Crime podcast
SOURCES:
Please see our website for all source material and photos at https://scottishmurders.com/episodes/elizabethcampbell/
British Newspaper Archives Affiliate Link
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The episode concludes by previewing upcoming episodes, including the murder of Elizabeth Campbell in 1932 and the unsolved/solved? case of Aileen Printie in 1981.
Listeners are also introduced to Mike from the Murder Mile UK True Crime podcast
SOURCES:
Please see our website for all source material and photos at https://scottishmurders.com/episodes/elizabethcampbell/
British Newspaper Archives Affiliate Link
SHOW:
Support Us: ko-fi.com/scottishmurders
Patreon - patreon.com/scottishmurders
Merch - teepublic.com/user/scottishmurders
Website - scottishmurders.com
Twitter - @scottishmurders
Instagram - @scottishmurderspodcast
Facebook - facebook.com/scottishmurdurs
YouTube - @ScottishMurders
Linktree - linktr.ee/scottishmurders
CREDITS:
Scottish Murders is a production of Cluarantonn
Hosted by Dawn Young
Researched, Written and Edited by Dawn Young
Production Company Name by Granny Robertson
MUSIC:
ES_Tudor - Bonnie Grace - epidemicsound
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to another Scotland Then episode. I know I normally
released the Scotland Then episode after the episode about a
murder case, but I thought i'd mix things up this month.
So in this episode, I will tell you about some
of the stories in the newspapers back in nineteen thirty two,
specifically from The Scotsman from the first of February at
the time of the murder of Elizabeth Campbell and from
(00:22):
the twenty fifth of April at the time of the
murder trial. You'll hear about the murder of Elizabeth Campbell
in Colcadin's Glasgow and if she received justice next week.
But before I take you back to nineteen thirty two,
which is the year my gran was born, and whose
voice you'll hear at the end of each episode saying.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Scottish murdersch is a production of Chlorine Toine.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
First, I'd love to introduce you to if you aren't
already a fan of his podcast, The Fabulous and so
Kind Mike from the Murder Mile UK true crime podcast.
I absolutely adore Mike and the research she puts into
each and every episode short of his podcast is phenomenal.
Mike really does care about each case he covers. He
(01:05):
has a wicked and dry sense of humor and you
couldn't meet a nicer guy. So let's hear from the
man himself.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Nominated is one of the best British true crime podcasts,
Murder Mile is hailed as a masterpiece of compelling storytelling
research using the original police files. Over three hundred episodes,
Murder Male has covered hundreds of crimes you won't hear
anywhere else, as well as solving cold cases, unearthing new evidence,
and even discovering a serial killer no one even knew existed.
(01:37):
For a truly original podcast, subscribe to Murder Mile.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Like I said, if you're not already listening to Mike's podcast,
the Murder Myle UK true Crime Podcast, then I'd highly
recommend giving it a listen and you'll find a link
in the show notes. Okay, so, now let's get back
to nineteen thirty two and find out some of the
stories that were in the newspapers back then. So the
(02:03):
first story that caught my eye was headed Kidnapped Baby
and the name Lindenburgh jumped out at me. Now, I,
like most know the story of twenty month old baby
Charles Lindberg When kidnapped on the first of March nineteen
thirty two and later found murdered. But that happened in America,
So why would I be telling you about this story. Well,
(02:23):
what I didn't know was that Baby Charles's nanny at
the time he was kidnapped was twenty six year old
Betty Gow and that she was Scottish. Following the kidnapping,
the finger of suspicion was quickly pointed at Betty as
she was the last person to have seen baby Charles
before he was taken, and for several days she was
subjected to grilling and criticism from police officers before she
(02:46):
was eventually exonerated. And that was what the short article
in The Scotsman was saying that Betty Gough had been
cleared of the slightest imputation upon her character. I wondered, though,
what happened to Betty Gough after she'd been cleared. A
bit more research and it turns out that, accordington article
from Lindburg Kidnapping hoax dot Com, that following Betty being cleared,
(03:08):
she immediately returned back to Scotland, only returning again to
America to take to the stand at the trial of
the man who actually kidnapped and murdered baby Charles Lindburg,
before heading back to Scotland, Glasgow specifically, where she lived
for the rest of her life in a smart terraced house,
collected her modest pension each week, and lived an unobtrusive,
(03:29):
quiet life, keeping her secret her burden from her neighbors.
That was until she was eighty eight years old, when
Andrew scott Berg, who was writing an in depth book
titled Lindburg, sought her out and asked her if she
would speak to him for his book, having also spoken
to the Lindberghs. Betty Gough eventually agreed, but upon Andrew
(03:49):
arriving at her home, he found she would not open
up to him and feared he had had a wasted journey.
That was until he told Betty that Missus Lindbergh had
asked him to pass on her Ingods guards to Betty
to tell Betty that they appreciated her so much, that
she had been fantastic with Charles while he was alive,
and that they couldn't have asked for a better nanny,
at which point Andrew said, Betty began to cry, eventually
(04:13):
telling him that she had always thought the Lindbergs had
hated her and blamed her for Charles being kidnapped, and
she'd lived with that all of her life, as she
had written a note to the Lindberghs after she'd returned
to Scotland, but they had never replied. Andrew explained to
Betty that it was likely the Lindbergs had never received
her note, as at the time they were receiving thousands
(04:34):
of letters, good and bad, and that they had rarely
been opening them. Andrew said he could visibly see the
burden leaving Betty's shoulders at his words, and he was
pleased he had been able to finally put her mind
to rest after almost sixty one years. Andrew said that
Betty had gone on to be one of the most
revealing sources for his book. Okay, so while I'm mentioning
(04:58):
things happening outside of Scotland, I also noticed this short
piece of information trigger warning though it does involve the
topic of suicide, so please get past if you'd rather
not listen. So it involves the Sydney Harbor Bridge, which
opened to the public on the nineteenth of March nineteen
thirty two and just over a month later, The Scotsman
reported that on the twenty fourth of April the first
(05:21):
suicide had occurred when an unknown man threw himself from
the railings and fell one hundred and ninety feet. Okay,
back to Scotland. But another tragedy which sadly seems to
have been the theme in this particular time period in
nineteen thirty two. This time the headline in The Scotsman
on the twenty fifth of April read fatal result of
(05:44):
accident on football field. A friendly football game was taking
place in Stravan between Strayvan former pupil's team and Hamilton
Postal employees when twenty two year old Stuart Fleming was
injured in a tackle. He was taken off the field
and treated, but he did return and he actually added
to the Stravan former peopil's team's score. He didn't say
(06:06):
what the score was that day, but after the game
Short complained of feeling unwell, so much so that he
was taken to Victoria Infirmary in Glasgow where he underwent
an operation for abdominal injuries. Sadly, Stuart died following this surgery. Okay,
so the next few stories taken from the Scotsman on
(06:27):
the first of February and the twenty fifth of April
involved people who were tragically killed, but it was unknown
who they were at the time, the first being a
woman who was knocked down by a tram car in
the evening of Wednesday, the twentieth of April nineteen thirty
two in Southbridge, Edinburgh. She received series injuries and sadly
died a few days later in hospital, still not having
(06:49):
been identified. She was reported to have been about fifty
five years old, about five foot five inches or one
point sixty five meters, have gray hair, bey of slim build,
and be wearing a gray woolen jumper with a great
green skirt and coat. Then, on the twenty fourth of April,
the body of an elderly man was found at Inverness Harbor,
(07:09):
who again had not been identified. It was said though
that when he was taken ashore, he was found how
his legs tied together with rope and that weights had
been attached to the rope. It was said that he
likely had been in the water for about three weeks,
but that no local person had been reported missing. Then
back to Glasgow, where the body of a female child
(07:32):
was said to have been discovered on a road in
mary Hill, but police said that this child had likely
been dead for a week. I'm not sure if it
meant the child's body had been found on the side
of the road or in a property on this road though. However,
Later the same afternoon, a man's body was recovered from
the river Cloud after it had been seen floating in
the river. The man was said to have been between
(07:54):
forty five and fifty years old and be about five
foot ten inches or one point seven seven meters in height.
I'm not sure if these two cases were connected or not.
I do hope, however, that everyone was identified and laid
to rest, staying in Glasgow now, the tragedies continued when
(08:15):
nine year old Francis Connolly of Loom Street was killed
when a wall collapsed on him. Apparently part of a
property in Lum Street was being prepared to be demolished
and nine year old Francis was in his front room
when a beam supporting presumably the brick wall to his
home was dislodged and the wall collapsed on Francis, burying him.
He was still alive at this point and was heard
(08:37):
to be screaming, and the workmen working on preparing the
adjacent building for demolition immediately rushed to his aid and
managed to get Francis out. An ambulance was called and
Francis was rushed to hospital. However, he died en route
from the injuries he had sustained. The tragedies continued in
(08:58):
Glasgow in this time period, with being reported in The
Scotsman on the twenty fifth of April that over that
weekend there had been multiple accidents and fatalities. Firstly, when
thirty two year old Ernest Keith Humphries, who was driving
his motorcycle and sidecar with a passenger along mary Hill Road,
lost control and he was thrown to the ground. Ernest
(09:19):
sadly sustained a fractured's skull and he died at the scene.
His passenger, however, escaped the sidecar with no injuries. Then
Missus Bennett, an elderly lady, was knocked down by a
motorcycle and Great Western Road. She received series head injuries
and was taken to hospital and was reported to be
in a critical condition, but I couldn't find if Missus
(09:40):
Bennett survived her injuries. Five people were also injured when
a car collided with a lorry loaded with milk cans
at the juncture of Kingston Street and Commerce Street in Glasgow.
In the car was Andrew Shearer, his wife Elizabeth, and
their children Andrew ten and Kathy, a livin, as well
as a neighbor they had given a lift to Missus
Armstrong of don Marnock Road. It was reported that everyone
(10:04):
sustained cuts and bruises, except ten year old Andrew, who
also sustained head injuries and was reported to be in
serious condition. While the car was completely wrecked, the lorry
only sustained slight damage and there was no mention of
the lorry driver having sustained any injuries. Apparently, though the
road was closed for quite a time while passer bys
(10:25):
helped collect the milkkens, which had been scattered in all directions,
and replaced them back on the lorry. The next accident
involved fifteen year old Mary Henderson, who, while happily playing
on a stair banister on the third floor of her close,
fell to the basement, sustaining severe head injuries. Again, I
couldn't find out what happened to Mary, but it sounds
(10:47):
a pretty nasty fall. And finally, a murder charge George Dollin,
a young seaman, was at Glasgow Sheriff Court being charged
according to the Scotts on the first of February, that
on the twenty third or twenty fourth of January, he
assaulted forty year old Mary Lyden or Aiken at his
(11:08):
home in Kingston Street, Glasgow. Seized hold of her, compressed
her throat with his hands, threw her to the ground,
beat her on the head, face and body with his fists,
fractured one of her ribs, and murdered her. At this time,
George Dollon's representative made no plea and George Dollon was
committed to prison for further examination. And that was it.
(11:29):
So of course I did some research to find out
a bit more and find out what the outcome was. Well,
the murdered trial took place in April, and it was
quite the spectacle, apparently, with a large number of people
turning up for each day of the trial and many
having to be turned away. So it appears that Mary
Linden or Aitken had been married at the time of
(11:49):
her murder to another man, but had left him and
was cohabiting with George Dollin. At the trial, Mary's sister
in law spoke of many quarrels between Mary and George
and her while her and her husband had in fact
witnessed George being violent towards Mary, on one occasion, hitting
Mary on the eye, but George would always beg Mary
to stay with him, promising to behave in future. Mary's
(12:12):
sister in law also disclosed the trial that Mary was
fed up with George and had actually secured herself a
house as she wanted a place of her own. Mary's
sister in law went on to say that Mary had
told her she paid for the rent for this house
with parish money. Following a post mortem, it was concluded
that Mary's death was due to shock and heart failure
(12:33):
by numerous injuries on the face, scalp and neck, and
from a fracture of her roub. George's counsel did try
to sway the jury and asked them to return a
verdict of culpable homicide and not murder. However, following deliberation,
the jury by a majority returned a verdict of guilty
of murder and George Dollin was sentenced to death. This
(12:54):
verdict was immediately appealed, with it being felt that the
verdict was unreasonable and that should have been found guilty
of culpable homicide and not murder, and the case appeared
in front of the Criminal Appeal Court in Edinburgh in May. However,
this appeal was unanimously dismissed and George Dollan's execution was
set for the fourth of June. A reprieve of this
(13:16):
death sentence was sought, but it wouldn't be until the
second of June, two days before his execution date, that
George Dollon calmly and gratefully received this news, with him
instead sentenced to penal servitude for life. So that's just
some newspaper stories from February and April in nineteen thirty two,
(13:38):
But there were so many stories that I just couldn't
tell you. If you're interested in finding out more about
what happened in the past, the website I use for
research is the British Newspaper Archive and you'll find an
affiliate link in the show notes or by visiting Scottish
Murders dot com. I hope you enjoyed this week's Scotland
Then episode from nineteen thirty two. Like I said, next week,
(14:00):
I'll be releasing an episode about the murder of Elizabeth
Campbell in nineteen thirty two in Glasgow. Later in July,
I will be covering the solved slash unsolved case and
you'll have to listen to find out what I mean
by that of Alien Printy in Edinburgh in nineteen eighty one,
which is a case requested by one of our listeners.
We've also had another request from a listener on YouTube
(14:22):
music asking if I could provide any further information about
the unsolved murder of George Nixon Martin, a case I
briefly touched on in another Scotland then episode, so c
H one K one three. I'll do a bit more
research into that case and put together an episode about
George Nixon Martin's murder as it is still unsolved, and
(14:44):
I hope to release that episode later in July or
in early August. So lots still to come, but until
then I've been your host.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Don Sddish Murdoch is a production of Chlorine Tone
Welcome to another Scotland Then episode. I know I normally
released the Scotland Then episode after the episode about a
murder case, but I thought i'd mix things up this month.
So in this episode, I will tell you about some
of the stories in the newspapers back in nineteen thirty two,
specifically from The Scotsman from the first of February at
the time of the murder of Elizabeth Campbell and from
(00:22):
the twenty fifth of April at the time of the
murder trial. You'll hear about the murder of Elizabeth Campbell
in Colcadin's Glasgow and if she received justice next week.
But before I take you back to nineteen thirty two,
which is the year my gran was born, and whose
voice you'll hear at the end of each episode saying.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Scottish murdersch is a production of Chlorine Toine.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
First, I'd love to introduce you to if you aren't
already a fan of his podcast, The Fabulous and so
Kind Mike from the Murder Mile UK true crime podcast.
I absolutely adore Mike and the research she puts into
each and every episode short of his podcast is phenomenal.
Mike really does care about each case he covers. He
(01:05):
has a wicked and dry sense of humor and you
couldn't meet a nicer guy. So let's hear from the
man himself.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Nominated is one of the best British true crime podcasts,
Murder Mile is hailed as a masterpiece of compelling storytelling
research using the original police files. Over three hundred episodes,
Murder Male has covered hundreds of crimes you won't hear
anywhere else, as well as solving cold cases, unearthing new evidence,
and even discovering a serial killer no one even knew existed.
(01:37):
For a truly original podcast, subscribe to Murder Mile.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Like I said, if you're not already listening to Mike's podcast,
the Murder Myle UK true Crime Podcast, then I'd highly
recommend giving it a listen and you'll find a link
in the show notes. Okay, so, now let's get back
to nineteen thirty two and find out some of the
stories that were in the newspapers back then. So the
(02:03):
first story that caught my eye was headed Kidnapped Baby
and the name Lindenburgh jumped out at me. Now, I,
like most know the story of twenty month old baby
Charles Lindberg When kidnapped on the first of March nineteen
thirty two and later found murdered. But that happened in America,
So why would I be telling you about this story. Well,
(02:23):
what I didn't know was that Baby Charles's nanny at
the time he was kidnapped was twenty six year old
Betty Gow and that she was Scottish. Following the kidnapping,
the finger of suspicion was quickly pointed at Betty as
she was the last person to have seen baby Charles
before he was taken, and for several days she was
subjected to grilling and criticism from police officers before she
(02:46):
was eventually exonerated. And that was what the short article
in The Scotsman was saying that Betty Gough had been
cleared of the slightest imputation upon her character. I wondered, though,
what happened to Betty Gough after she'd been cleared. A
bit more research and it turns out that, accordington article
from Lindburg Kidnapping hoax dot Com, that following Betty being cleared,
(03:08):
she immediately returned back to Scotland, only returning again to
America to take to the stand at the trial of
the man who actually kidnapped and murdered baby Charles Lindburg,
before heading back to Scotland, Glasgow specifically, where she lived
for the rest of her life in a smart terraced house,
collected her modest pension each week, and lived an unobtrusive,
(03:29):
quiet life, keeping her secret her burden from her neighbors.
That was until she was eighty eight years old, when
Andrew scott Berg, who was writing an in depth book
titled Lindburg, sought her out and asked her if she
would speak to him for his book, having also spoken
to the Lindberghs. Betty Gough eventually agreed, but upon Andrew
(03:49):
arriving at her home, he found she would not open
up to him and feared he had had a wasted journey.
That was until he told Betty that Missus Lindbergh had
asked him to pass on her Ingods guards to Betty
to tell Betty that they appreciated her so much, that
she had been fantastic with Charles while he was alive,
and that they couldn't have asked for a better nanny,
at which point Andrew said, Betty began to cry, eventually
(04:13):
telling him that she had always thought the Lindbergs had
hated her and blamed her for Charles being kidnapped, and
she'd lived with that all of her life, as she
had written a note to the Lindberghs after she'd returned
to Scotland, but they had never replied. Andrew explained to
Betty that it was likely the Lindbergs had never received
her note, as at the time they were receiving thousands
(04:34):
of letters, good and bad, and that they had rarely
been opening them. Andrew said he could visibly see the
burden leaving Betty's shoulders at his words, and he was
pleased he had been able to finally put her mind
to rest after almost sixty one years. Andrew said that
Betty had gone on to be one of the most
revealing sources for his book. Okay, so while I'm mentioning
(04:58):
things happening outside of Scotland, I also noticed this short
piece of information trigger warning though it does involve the
topic of suicide, so please get past if you'd rather
not listen. So it involves the Sydney Harbor Bridge, which
opened to the public on the nineteenth of March nineteen
thirty two and just over a month later, The Scotsman
reported that on the twenty fourth of April the first
(05:21):
suicide had occurred when an unknown man threw himself from
the railings and fell one hundred and ninety feet. Okay,
back to Scotland. But another tragedy which sadly seems to
have been the theme in this particular time period in
nineteen thirty two. This time the headline in The Scotsman
on the twenty fifth of April read fatal result of
(05:44):
accident on football field. A friendly football game was taking
place in Stravan between Strayvan former pupil's team and Hamilton
Postal employees when twenty two year old Stuart Fleming was
injured in a tackle. He was taken off the field
and treated, but he did return and he actually added
to the Stravan former peopil's team's score. He didn't say
(06:06):
what the score was that day, but after the game
Short complained of feeling unwell, so much so that he
was taken to Victoria Infirmary in Glasgow where he underwent
an operation for abdominal injuries. Sadly, Stuart died following this surgery. Okay,
so the next few stories taken from the Scotsman on
(06:27):
the first of February and the twenty fifth of April
involved people who were tragically killed, but it was unknown
who they were at the time, the first being a
woman who was knocked down by a tram car in
the evening of Wednesday, the twentieth of April nineteen thirty
two in Southbridge, Edinburgh. She received series injuries and sadly
died a few days later in hospital, still not having
(06:49):
been identified. She was reported to have been about fifty
five years old, about five foot five inches or one
point sixty five meters, have gray hair, bey of slim build,
and be wearing a gray woolen jumper with a great
green skirt and coat. Then, on the twenty fourth of April,
the body of an elderly man was found at Inverness Harbor,
(07:09):
who again had not been identified. It was said though
that when he was taken ashore, he was found how
his legs tied together with rope and that weights had
been attached to the rope. It was said that he
likely had been in the water for about three weeks,
but that no local person had been reported missing. Then
back to Glasgow, where the body of a female child
(07:32):
was said to have been discovered on a road in
mary Hill, but police said that this child had likely
been dead for a week. I'm not sure if it
meant the child's body had been found on the side
of the road or in a property on this road though. However,
Later the same afternoon, a man's body was recovered from
the river Cloud after it had been seen floating in
the river. The man was said to have been between
(07:54):
forty five and fifty years old and be about five
foot ten inches or one point seven seven meters in height.
I'm not sure if these two cases were connected or not.
I do hope, however, that everyone was identified and laid
to rest, staying in Glasgow now, the tragedies continued when
(08:15):
nine year old Francis Connolly of Loom Street was killed
when a wall collapsed on him. Apparently part of a
property in Lum Street was being prepared to be demolished
and nine year old Francis was in his front room
when a beam supporting presumably the brick wall to his
home was dislodged and the wall collapsed on Francis, burying him.
He was still alive at this point and was heard
(08:37):
to be screaming, and the workmen working on preparing the
adjacent building for demolition immediately rushed to his aid and
managed to get Francis out. An ambulance was called and
Francis was rushed to hospital. However, he died en route
from the injuries he had sustained. The tragedies continued in
(08:58):
Glasgow in this time period, with being reported in The
Scotsman on the twenty fifth of April that over that
weekend there had been multiple accidents and fatalities. Firstly, when
thirty two year old Ernest Keith Humphries, who was driving
his motorcycle and sidecar with a passenger along mary Hill Road,
lost control and he was thrown to the ground. Ernest
(09:19):
sadly sustained a fractured's skull and he died at the scene.
His passenger, however, escaped the sidecar with no injuries. Then
Missus Bennett, an elderly lady, was knocked down by a
motorcycle and Great Western Road. She received series head injuries
and was taken to hospital and was reported to be
in a critical condition, but I couldn't find if Missus
(09:40):
Bennett survived her injuries. Five people were also injured when
a car collided with a lorry loaded with milk cans
at the juncture of Kingston Street and Commerce Street in Glasgow.
In the car was Andrew Shearer, his wife Elizabeth, and
their children Andrew ten and Kathy, a livin, as well
as a neighbor they had given a lift to Missus
Armstrong of don Marnock Road. It was reported that everyone
(10:04):
sustained cuts and bruises, except ten year old Andrew, who
also sustained head injuries and was reported to be in
serious condition. While the car was completely wrecked, the lorry
only sustained slight damage and there was no mention of
the lorry driver having sustained any injuries. Apparently, though the
road was closed for quite a time while passer bys
(10:25):
helped collect the milkkens, which had been scattered in all directions,
and replaced them back on the lorry. The next accident
involved fifteen year old Mary Henderson, who, while happily playing
on a stair banister on the third floor of her close,
fell to the basement, sustaining severe head injuries. Again, I
couldn't find out what happened to Mary, but it sounds
(10:47):
a pretty nasty fall. And finally, a murder charge George Dollin,
a young seaman, was at Glasgow Sheriff Court being charged
according to the Scotts on the first of February, that
on the twenty third or twenty fourth of January, he
assaulted forty year old Mary Lyden or Aiken at his
(11:08):
home in Kingston Street, Glasgow. Seized hold of her, compressed
her throat with his hands, threw her to the ground,
beat her on the head, face and body with his fists,
fractured one of her ribs, and murdered her. At this time,
George Dollon's representative made no plea and George Dollon was
committed to prison for further examination. And that was it.
(11:29):
So of course I did some research to find out
a bit more and find out what the outcome was. Well,
the murdered trial took place in April, and it was
quite the spectacle, apparently, with a large number of people
turning up for each day of the trial and many
having to be turned away. So it appears that Mary
Linden or Aitken had been married at the time of
(11:49):
her murder to another man, but had left him and
was cohabiting with George Dollin. At the trial, Mary's sister
in law spoke of many quarrels between Mary and George
and her while her and her husband had in fact
witnessed George being violent towards Mary, on one occasion, hitting
Mary on the eye, but George would always beg Mary
to stay with him, promising to behave in future. Mary's
(12:12):
sister in law also disclosed the trial that Mary was
fed up with George and had actually secured herself a
house as she wanted a place of her own. Mary's
sister in law went on to say that Mary had
told her she paid for the rent for this house
with parish money. Following a post mortem, it was concluded
that Mary's death was due to shock and heart failure
(12:33):
by numerous injuries on the face, scalp and neck, and
from a fracture of her roub. George's counsel did try
to sway the jury and asked them to return a
verdict of culpable homicide and not murder. However, following deliberation,
the jury by a majority returned a verdict of guilty
of murder and George Dollin was sentenced to death. This
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verdict was immediately appealed, with it being felt that the
verdict was unreasonable and that should have been found guilty
of culpable homicide and not murder, and the case appeared
in front of the Criminal Appeal Court in Edinburgh in May. However,
this appeal was unanimously dismissed and George Dollan's execution was
set for the fourth of June. A reprieve of this
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death sentence was sought, but it wouldn't be until the
second of June, two days before his execution date, that
George Dollon calmly and gratefully received this news, with him
instead sentenced to penal servitude for life. So that's just
some newspaper stories from February and April in nineteen thirty two,
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But there were so many stories that I just couldn't
tell you. If you're interested in finding out more about
what happened in the past, the website I use for
research is the British Newspaper Archive and you'll find an
affiliate link in the show notes or by visiting Scottish
Murders dot com. I hope you enjoyed this week's Scotland
Then episode from nineteen thirty two. Like I said, next week,
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I'll be releasing an episode about the murder of Elizabeth
Campbell in nineteen thirty two in Glasgow. Later in July,
I will be covering the solved slash unsolved case and
you'll have to listen to find out what I mean
by that of Alien Printy in Edinburgh in nineteen eighty one,
which is a case requested by one of our listeners.
We've also had another request from a listener on YouTube
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music asking if I could provide any further information about
the unsolved murder of George Nixon Martin, a case I
briefly touched on in another Scotland then episode, so c
H one K one three. I'll do a bit more
research into that case and put together an episode about
George Nixon Martin's murder as it is still unsolved, and
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I hope to release that episode later in July or
in early August. So lots still to come, but until
then I've been your host.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
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