May 22, 1843
n THE Herald reported: ''A few weeks since it was announced that a female named Christian Cochrane or Gilmour had absconded on the suspicion of having murdered by poison her husband, Mr John Gilmour, farmer in Inchinnan, Renfrewshire. Since then, the female has been traced from this neighbourhood, through Dumfries and and Carlisle, to Liverpool, from whence, it is understood, she embarked on a sailing vessel about the beginning of the month for New York.
''Mr George McKay, superintendent of the Renfrewshire Rural Police, has been sent off in pursuit by the authorities, and sailed on Thursday last in the Acadia. Should he find out the unfortunate woman, there will be no difficulty in having her transferred to this country under the provisions of the Ashburton treaty.''
n THE Herald acknowledged a mistake in an earlier report. ''In our last, we copied a paragraph from a contemporary stating that a young girl at St Rollox, Glasgow, had thrown herself into the canal in a fit of passion and was drowned. Since then we have ascertained that the death was entirely the result of an accident.''
n THE Herald also reported: ''The Symnetry, Captain Dale, sailed from Scrabster Roads, Caithness, on Sunday week, with 131 passengers for Quebec. The John O'Groats Journal states that only 36 were from that county, the remainder being chiefly from Cromarty. In the West Highlands, about 16 families from the Island of Eigg, and 40 from Arisaig and Moidart, are preparing to emigrate this season.''
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