Arrested for: Larceny
Arrested at: North Shields Police Station
Arrested on: 10 December 1903
Tyne and Wear Archives ref: DX1388-1-23-Walter Savory
The Shields Daily Gazette for 10 December 1903 reports:
"A CLOTHES LINE THEFT
At North Shields, Walter Savory (30), donkeyman, Percy Main, was charged with stealing on the 9th inst. from a line in a backyard at 9 Blyth Street, Percy Main, two towels, a sheet, and a curtain, valued 6s 6d, the property of Thos. Urwin. The wife of the prosecutor gave evidence as to missing the articles from the line.
PC Colpitts said that at ten minutes to seven last night he was on duty on the Ropery Banks where he saw the defendant, who had a parcel under his arm. As soon as he saw witness he walked away, but witness followed and questioned him. Being dissatisfied with his answer, he took the man to the Bull Ring Police Station, and after enquiries had been made, it was found that the articles in the parcel had been taken from a clothes line at Percy Main. Accused now pleaded guilty, and said he was very drunk when he committed the offence. He was fined 10s and costs or 14 days".
These images are a selection from an album of photographs of prisoners brought before the North Shields Police Court between 1902 and 1916 in the collection of Tyne & Wear Archives (TWA ref DX1388/1).
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