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Susannah Adamson, arrested for stealing a man's purse

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Name: Susannah Adamson.Arrested for: Larceny.Arrested at: North Shields Police Station.Arrested on: 15th February 1904.Tyne and Wear Archives ref: DX1388-1-35-Susannah Adamson..The Shields Daily Gazette for 1 March 1904 reports:.."Susannah Adamson (25) who resides in Magnesia Bank, accompanied a labourer named Alexander Angus into the Gardeners' Arms, in Rudyard Street, on Saturday. While there she relieved him of a purse and 25s. Angus did not know of his loss until the woman had left the bar and when he discovered it he immediately followed her, took possession of his purse, opened it and found it contained 1½ d. Detective Scougal arrested in her own house later in the night, and the woman told him that she had never seen either Angus or his money. Before the North Shields magistrates Adamson made a most vigorous defence, protesting that she never stole any of the man's money. Before this case she had made ten appearances before the magistrates and she was now committed to prison for a month".. .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)...(Copyright) We're happy for you to share this digital image within the spirit of The Commons. Please cite 'Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums' when reusing. Certain restrictions on high quality reproductions and commercial use of the original physical version apply though; if you're unsure please email archives@twmuseums.org.uk.

Criminal faces of Newcastle. These images are a selection from an albums of photographs of prisoners and convicted criminals. Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums manages a collection of 12 museums and galleries across Tyne and Wear.

A mug shot or mugshot is a photographic portrait of a person from the waist up, typically taken after a person is arrested made with a purpose to have a photographic record for identification purposes by victims, the public and investigators. A typical mug shot is two-part, with one side-view, and one front-view. The paired arrangement may have been inspired by the 1865 prison portraits taken by Alexander Gardner of accused conspirators in the Lincoln assassination trial, though Gardner's photographs were full-body portraits with only the heads turned for the profile shots. The earliest mugshot photos of prisoners may have been taken in Belgium in 1843 and 1844. In the UK, the police of London started taking mugshots in 1846. By 1857, the New York City Police Department had a gallery where daguerreotypes of criminals were displayed.

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Criminal faces of Newcastle

Criminal faces of Newcastle. These images are a selection from an albums of photographs of prisoners and convicted criminals.

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Prisoners photographs from U.S. National Archives
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Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom ,  54.97825, -1.61778
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victorian edwardian criminals villains prisoners jail tyne wear 1900 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 photography female custody discovery museum portrait sentence crime larceny theft north shields hat shawl susannah adamson mugshot black and white monochrome b and w tyne and wear prisoner north shields police court adamson tyne and wear archives and museums economic and social conditions 1900 s women england law enforcement police criminal 1900 s