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"path": "/2026/05/22/tales-of-true-crime-orkney-money-theft/",
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"textContent": "The Long Arm of the Law, 1891. “It was not often that a case of this kind occurred in Orkney. “ On 5 December 1890, Peter Linklater, a cattle dealer and farmer of Innertown, travelled into Stromness with the considerable sum of £30 in notes in his pocketbook. It was to be several days later […]",
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