Robby-Boy Balfour; How He Wrecked a Big Prison's Reputation

Good evening. This is Crime Classics. I am Thomas Highland with another true story of crime. Listen. That's the way Robert, Robbie Boy Belfer walked across the room when he was angry. And this was one of the angriest days of his life.

The object of his disaffection, a schoolteacher, and this is what Robbie did. Hit the schoolteacher across the mouth with his leather glove, was, in that day and age, a challenge to a duel. Not me, I said the schoolteacher. I said Robbie. I went Robbie with his pistol.

Tonight, my report to you on Robbie Boy Belfer. How he wrecked a big prison's reputation. Crime classics. A series of true crime stories taken from the records and newspapers of every land from every time. Your host each week, Mr. Thomas Highland, connoisseur of crime, student of violence, and teller of murders. Now once again, Mr. Thomas Highland.

In 1707, the current saying around inverkieving Scotland went something like this. Tisn't it bad enough we suffered the Glen Kool massacre? Think awful enough about the Darium scheme, but they had to go and join up with England and call us now the United Kingdom.

The sentiments of the time among the kilted folk, whispers of bribery in the Scottish Parliament, threats of war, talk of open rebellion, a time of angers and furies, and between these passions, gentler ones. Doesn't baden if we suffered the Glenkumassica, Dean D'Aubour and...

Hush, hush now Robbie Boy, you're saying that so often, I'm wondering whether you believe it. I believe it, planty else, why am I going away? Oh Robbie Boy. Aye. Let's get to the party. Let's throw the harshness of it and come to its softness.