Age: 75
Sex: female
Date: 3 Sep 1912
Place: 17 River Street, Montrose
Jessie Clift died after an assault at her home.
A 20-year-old man was tried for her murder, but it was heard at the trial that she had been so unhealthy that she could have died at anytime without violence and the murder charge was reduced to assault.
see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
see The Scotsman - Tuesday 15 October 1912
see Dundee Courier - Tuesday 15 October 1912
see Aberdeen Press and Journal - Wednesday 04 September 1912
see Dundee Courier - Saturday 07 September 1912
see Dundee Courier - Friday 06 September 1912
see Montrose, Arbroath and Brechin review; and Forfar and Kincardineshire advertiser. - Friday 18 October 1912
see National Records of Scotland - AD15/12/153
see Unsolved 1912
