Stunning the Punters

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Erected by William Thomson, in loving memory of his wife Samina Jamieson, died at Couper Croft, 6th June 1944, aged 73 years. Their son Andrew Hyslop Jamieson, died 29th Oct 1911, aged 5 years. Their daughter Sarah, died 24th Dec 1929, aged 27 years. The above William Thomson, who died at Kirkcudbright, 17th July 1955, aged 82 years. Rhodes Cowle had died of arsenic poisoning; The coffee flask held traces of arsenic; The accused had put the arsenic into the flask (‘I can see no escape from the conclusion that the accused put arsenic into the flask..,') on the Wednesday prior to Rhodes Cowle's death; and The defence of suicide was untenable. When the judge finally turned to pass sentence on Mrs De Melker, her face whitened, and for a moment all the strength seemed to leave her body. Robert Sproat’s Stunning the Punters has an ex-skinhead, after spraying racist graffiti, discovering from the cover-up that pretence speaks loudest. And in Dostoevsky’s Dream of a Ridiculous Man, adapted by Dillon and his director Laurence Boswell, a despairing philosopher dreams of a pre-lapserian world of innocence and beauty which his own savage sensuality corrupts until it, too, scorns his idealism. “ This is what we must fight against“, he says as they put him away for his own good, “ and I shall.” Mly late mother, Pam Hall, a realtive of Daisy, told us of a family relative visiting Daisy to swop recipes. The relative heard her last husband and son screaming in agony in their bedrooms. When she enquired of Daisy if they were alright-Daisy reportedly responded "They are fine. Now where were we with those recipes?" Rear) Also Isobella Taggart, spouse to Samuel Brown, who died 23rd Jan’y 1826, aged 75 years. And Mary Brown, their grand-daughter, who died 25th July 1824, aged 20 years.

In memory of John Robertson, son of Thomas Robertson, who died the 21st Oct’r 1855, aged 5 years. Also of Robert, who died 30th Oct’r 1855, aged 9 years. Also of Jane, his daughter, who died 7th March 1867, aged 16 years. Also of Mary McAdam, wife of Thomas Robertson, who died at Herriesdale, Urr, 6th Feb’y 1897, aged 85 years. Also the above Thomas Robertson, who died at Herriesdale, 4th Jan. 1903, aged 96 years. The title piece by Robert Sproat is a jaunty account of the outbreak of racism on an estate in North London. Dillon is an ex-skinhead with an engaging but forced grin. Sproat just lets him tell his story, about a graffiti spree which ends in the death of a skinhead, without comment. We are left to try to account for a monstrous hatred which seems almost unconnected with the people who express it, but which, Sproat suggests, is better expressed than expunged. In 1993, a television mini-series was made about Daisy de Melker, with Susan Coetzer in the title role. [7]Fact 14 - 1783: The United States of America was created and Scottish migrants referred to themselves as Americans.

Daisy de Melker was born Daisy Hancorn-Smith in Seven Fountains in what was then the Cape Colony. She was one of eleven children. When she was twelve, Daisy went to Bulawayo, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) to live with her father and two of her brothers. Three years later, she became a boarder at the Good Hope Seminary School in Cape Town. She returned to Rhodesia in 1903, but soon moved to the Colony of Natal and enrolled at the Berea Nursing Home in Durban. [ citation needed] Scottish Immigration to America emerged as Scots escaped poverty and persecution from the towns of Glasgow, Edinburgh, Ayr and Inverness. Many emigrated from Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire, Argyll and East Lothian.In loving memory of William Thomas Sproat, farmer, Lennox Plunton, born 27 December 1922, died 10 January 1991. An interesting point to ponder is this: Robert Sproat had been prescribed a tonic by his doctor several months before he died. One of the major ingredients of the tonics manufactured at the time was strychnine. Strychnine had the unfortunate habit of settling to the bottom of a tonic bottle when the bottle was not in use. Sproat had not taken the tonic for some time prior to his final illness and, when he downed the last dose in the bottle, he ingested almost pure strychnine. This could have at least contributed to his death and could also have been the source of the strychnine traces found in his corpse. .. So: did De Melker poison him? Or did he unwittingly poison himself and thus engineer the fall from grace of a good and god-fearing woman? References East) To the memory of John Sproat, M.D. third son of the late Thomas Sproat, Brighouse, having practiced his profession for many years in Melbourne, Australia, he returned to his native parish and died on the 28th August 1856, aged 52 years, Also Eleanor May Sproat, eldest daughter of the late Alexander Sproat, Brighouse, who died 13th April 1918, aged 85 years. Also Elizabeth M.R. Sproat, daughter of Alex'r Sproat, Brighouse, who died 26th Aug. 1929, aged 77 years. Stunning the Punters, is directed by Laurence Boswell, in which Dillon actually presents three short pieces of theatre by different authors of which I shall comment here: