This image of Elspet Falconer or Scobbie is more akin to a formal posed portrait than a typical mugshot. Like the two previous blog posts, the photograph is pasted into the Register of Returned Convicts for the City of Aberdeen, 1869-1939 (POL/AC/6/6).
Elspet Falconer was sentenced to 10 years' penal servitude in September 1864 at the Aberdeen Autumn Circuit Court. The report of her trial appears in the Aberdeen, Banff and Kincardine People's Journal of the 24th September that year. It states that she, "Was charged with having on the 21st of June last, stolen from the dwelling house in Charleston of Nigg, Kincardineshire, occupied by Jane Morrison or Bremner, widow, a sheet and towel. There were no fewer than nine other charges against her. The prisoner, who was a very feeble and sickly looking woman, on being asked to plead, said she was guilty".
Discharged in May 1871, Elspet is recorded as living at 45 Guestrow (the Victoria Lodging House) in May and June of that year, see image below. In July she is noted as living at 4 Water Lane and the last entry gives her address as 14 Netherkirkgate in April 1873.
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