Stunning the Punters

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Front) Here lies Mary Wilson, spouse to James Sharp in Ross, who died March 30th 1768, aged 66 years. Also Jean and Nicolas Sharps, their children. Also the above James Sharp, who died 12th March 1785, aged 77 years. The De Melker trial lasted thirty days. Sixty witnesses were called for the Crown and less than half this number for the defense. To present the forensic evidence, the Crown employed the services of Dr. J.M. Watt, an expert toxicologist and Professor of Pharmacology at the Witwatersrand University. In summing up, before giving his verdict, the judge pointed out that the Crown had been unable to prove conclusively that Cowle and Sproat had died of strychnine poisoning. "It does not convince me, nor does it convict the accused," he said.[3] Awesome physical control, enviable vocal range and precision, faultless timing, and the ability to effect startling changes of mood almost in mid-sentence are some of the technical attributes demonstrated by the Berkoff-inspired actor George Dillon in his extraordinary one-man triple bill. What gives the show its guts though, is the emotional depth and complex humanity that Dillon also brings to each of the characters he portrays. In memory of Hugh Sproat, late in Rainton, who died 3rd May 1825, aged 60 years. And John his son, who died 22nd June 1825, aged 14 years. Also Adam his son, who died 15th May 1826, aged 25 years. Also James, his son, who died 13th August 1827, aged 19 years. Also Elizabeth, his daughter, who died in Edinburgh, 31st October 1837, aged 32 years. Mary Corrie, his spouse, died 2nd April 1838, aged 63 years. Margaret, their daughter, who died 3rd February 1846, aged 32 years. Agnes, their daughter, died 2 3rd May 1851, aged 55 years. Thomas, their son, died 6th June 1863, aged 66 years. Mary, their daughter, who died at Lennox Plunton, 21st May 1880 aged 81 years.

Scottish Immigration to America in the 1700's was undertaken by angry Scots following defeat at the hands of the English at the 1746 Battle of Culloden. The Scots settled in all of the 13 colonies, but mainly in South Carolina and Virginia. Strong trade links had already been established between the city of Glasgow in Scotland and Virginia trading in tobacco and many immigrants gained passage on the trade ships. For specific examples and a list of political, economic, environmental and social reasons and push and pull factors of Scottish Immigration to America refer to: This monument is erected to the memory of Hugh Blair of Dunrod, Esq., by his mournful widow, who lost in him a faithful and an affectionate husband, his infant children a kind and tender father, his friends, a warm and generous friend, his tenants and servants, a just and gentle master, the poor and afflicted, a liberal benefactor. He died the 2nd of May 1771, aged 27 years. In this final piece, whilst a man is considering his own suicide, he falls asleep and dreams that he has killed himself and travelled to another planet where people live in harmony and remain undefiled by evil. However, over time, his own presence defiles these people and he believes he can only redeem them by offering himself as a sacrifice for their sin. Yet he is met with hostility and is treated as a madman. The man is only reconciled by believing that humanity is not fundamentally evil, but has only fallen from grace. It is a story of its time, in that it reflects much of the Orthodox Church’s effect upon the Russian nation. He concludes by compassionately imploring his onlookers to love one another, even as we should love ourselves.

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In loving memory of Alexander Hamilton, who died at Balmangan, Borgue, 9th January 1901, aged 49 years. Also Annie Findlay, his wife, who died at Hall, Auchencairn, 12th June 1909, aged 49 years. Front) In memory of James Maizland, who died at Millhall, 26th Feb’y 1855, aged 88 years. Also his spouse, Janet Duff, who died at Millhall, 2d March 1857, aged 84 years. Also their daughter Elizabeth, who died at Millhall, 15th Oct’r 1858, aged 58 years. Also their grand-daughter Isabella Maizland, who died at Borgue Village, 31st May 1865, aged 6 years and 11 months. Also their daughter Isabella, who died at Millhall, 15th December 1885, aged 77 years. Also their son Douglas, who died at Borgue Village, 23rd February 1893, aged 82 years. Also their daughter Janet, who died at Millhall, 28 May 1899, aged 92 years. Also Grace McConnell, wife of the above Douglas Maitland, who died at Borgue Village, 28th Sep. 1910, aged 91 years. 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.” Important facts about the history of Scottish Immigration to America and US laws that effected the migrants from Scotland are contained in the following Facts Sheet and history timeline.

Sacred to the memory of Hugh Stewart Campbell, Commander of the ship ' Ranee' of Liverpool, who died at Louis, Mauritius, on the 1st of August 1851 in the 34th year of his age. For what is your life, it is even a vapour, that appeareth, for a little time and then vanisheth away. James IV Ch., and XIV. v. Bloudoff-Indelicato, Mollie (30 October 2015). "Arsenic and Old Graves: Civil War-Era Cemeteries May Be Leaking Toxins". Smithsonian Magazine . Retrieved 14 June 2022. Arsenic kills the bacteria that make corpses stinky

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In September 2005, a drag musical "Daisy's Well Hung" starring Robert Coleman as "Daisy" was staged at the Women's Jail on Constitution Hill in Johannesburg, where de Melker had been imprisoned prior to her hanging. This show attempted to transform the dour figure of De Melker into a poltergeist of a husband-killing femme fatale. 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. Since the cost of the voyage was high, many emigrants became indentured servants to gain passage to America and pay off their debt there. They signed contracts lasting five to seven years, after which they could pursue their own interests. 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]

Here lies the body of Margret Robison, who died Feb 3rd 1771, aged 37 years. Erected by her husband Hugh Sharp. Daisy's motives for killing her son Rhodes remain unclear. In the case of her first two husbands, the motive seemed to be financial gain. Rhodes seems to have been under the impression that he would come into an inheritance at age 21. One theory is that he was demanding more than his mother could give him and was becoming a burden to her. The most obvious answer is that he had become a disappointment to Daisy; she had pampered him all his life, but he rarely showed her any consideration in return. [ citation needed] Arrest, trial and execution [ edit ] Stunning the Punters (& Other Stories) is one man on a bare stage giving a bravura high-energy performance in three tales of imagination run wild: Master of Café Society by Steven Berkoff; Stunning the Punters by Robert Sproat and Dillon’s own adaptation of The Dream of a Ridiculous Man by Fyodor Dostoevsky.Sacred to the memory of Hugh Jamieson Thomson, beloved husband of Jeanie Crosbie Cook, who died at Johnstone, Renfrewshire, 28th Jan 1939, aged 46 years. Also the above Jeanie Crosbie Cook, who died at Dumfries, 6th June 1967, aged 71 years.

In memory of Jessie Sproat, daughter of William Thomas Sproat and Jessie Barber, his wife, who died at Balmangan, 28th January 1879, aged one year and four months. Also their daughter Jean Sproat, who died at Borness, 15th July 1883, aged three years and eleven months. Also their daughter Marion Sproat, who died at Borgue House, 26th August 1883, aged one year and eleven months. Also their daughter Frances Agnes Sproat, who died at Borgue House, 3rd April 1885, aged three months. Also their son Andrew McGill Sproat, who died at Borgue House, 20th May 1900, aged 25 years. Also the above William Thomas Sproat, who died at Borgue House, 18th October 1923, aged 77 years. Also the above Jessie Barber, wife of William Thomas Sproat, who died at Borgue House, 15th April 1931, aged 77 years. Also William Sproat, their their eldest son, who died at Banyenong, Donald, Australia, 16th Oct. 1948, aged 74 years, interred in Donald Cemetery. And James Sproat, their fourth son, who died at Melbourne, 26th August 1953, aged 65 years. Also their daughter Eleanor Sproat, Ivy Cottage, Borgue, who died at Darlington, 27th March 1962, aged 72 years.

Prizes

Steven Berkoff’s Master Of Cafe Society gives us a resting actor’s stream of consciousness as he ritually breakfasts in a cafe – to identify with the workers – and shares his Oedipal fantasies and humiliating sense of frustration in a world where work, and television exposure, confers reality. The FBI and the Arizona Corporation Commission conducted the investigation in this case. The United States Attorney’s Office, District of Arizona, Tucson, handled the prosecution.