LIBINDX (Ref. No. NM049249) contains some fascinating information about Sylvester Williamson Findlater, as follows: He was born 15 Aug. 1853, Mortlach, son of a prominent local estate factor, James Findlater of Balvenie, Mortlach. He graduated with a medical degree from Aberdeen in 1884 and was appointed Inspector of the Poor in Mortlach in the same year. In January and February of 1893, he was accused and stood trial for the assault and killing of John Johnston Jackson Hay, manager of the Tininver and Richmond Lime Works in Dufftown. (According to his death register entry, Hay died at his residence, Errol Bank, Dufftown, of a punctured blood vessel, the result of a rib fracture). Findlater was found not guilty, and left for Canada some time before 1897, when he married Margaret Ann Grant in Calgary. He died in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 20 September, 1919. Would anyone know what the fracas with Hay was about? Apparently, Findlater's accusation was reported in the /Northern Scot/, 28/01/1893, p. 5, and the trial was reported in the /Banffshire Advertiser/, 09/02/1893, page 7. His acquittal was noted in the /Northern Scot/, 11/02/1893, page 6. Unfortunately, I do not have access to these accounts. William in Alberta, Canada