Arrested for: Larceny
Arrested at: North Shields Police Station
Arrested on: 22 October 1904
Tyne and Wear Archives ref: DX1388-1-59-Donald Kane
The Shields Daily Gazette for 24 October 1904 reports:
“THEFT FROM A SCHOONER. SEAMAN SENT TO PRISON
At North Shields, Donald Kane, seaman, Dumbarton, was charged with having stolen between 21st and 22nd inst. clothing and other articles from the schooner Agnes lying in the Albert Edward Dock. The first charge was that of stealing a jacket, vest and pocket book, value £2, the property of W.E. Coulthorpe, the master of the vessel. The second was of stealing a jacket and a Naval Reserve book, value 10s, the property of James Stewart, able seaman and the third charge was of stealing a pair of boots, value 5s 11d, the property of Chas. Henry Briscoe.
The evidence showed that the accused went to a seamen’s boarding house in Clive Street kept by Mr Boyle and asked for board and lodgings, saying he was to be paid off at the Shipping Office that morning from the Lady Tennant. Witness asked for security and he produced the Naval Reserve book. He saw that the accused was attempting to conceal a pocket book. He got possession of it and found that it contained shipmaster’s papers and having ascertained thath the Lady Tennant’s crew were not to be paid off that day he had him taken into custody.
When arrested by PC Frazer he was wearing the whole of the clothing he had stolen. Accused pleaded guilty and said he would not have stolen the articles had he not been ‘half in the horrors’ with drink. He was committed to prison for 14 days in each case, six weeks in all”.
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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