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FROM THE VAULT
The Scots Magazine
|July 2025
Strange tales from the archives. This month – the 1865 riot that shook Arbroath
BOOTLEG spirit dealer Mary Ann Scott sparked a riot in Arbroath in 1865 that almost cost her life. Rioters used a burning tar barrel and a ship's keel to try to tear down her house.
Mary had become a hate figure after being taken to court for selling alcohol without a licence. However, it was the salacious nature of the evidence at the trial that outraged the town, rather than her bootlegging.
The evidence was so unedifying that
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