“SOUL NOT FOR SALE”
MAGISTRATE AND ELECTION. “Tell him my soul is not for sale,” was one of the remarks stated to have been made by Mr Ritchie Scott, senior magistrate of Irvine, Ayrshire, who, it was alleged, was approached for support in the election for Provost. In the High Court at Ayr, Peter Stewart Clark, former Provost of Irvine, denied a charg© that, while a member of Irvine Town Council, he corruptly promised or offered payment or discharge of arrears of rates due by Ritchie Scott as an inducement to Scott to vote for him in the election, of Provost in November last. Clark, in evidence, denied having tried to solicit Scott’s vote, or having even asked for it. Scott, he declared, was the type of man who could not be corrupted. That would have been the last way to secure his vote. The jury returned a verdict of “Not guilty” by a majority.
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Southland Times, Issue 25342, 22 July 1935, Page 7
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