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John Proctor
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John Proctor was sentenced to 5 years Penal Servitude for cattle stealing.
On release, on 06-Oct-1893, he was 26 years old; his complexion was described as fresh, his hair light brown, and his eyes grey. His height was 5 feet 8 1/4 inches. On the register, his marks were partially obscurated, but the legible part says: Scar on right ear...right eyebrow, tattoo....left forearm and tattoo ....middle finger left hand,....on chin and hardly any on cheeks.
His address on release was 204 George Street, Aberdeen.
This image has been uploaded as part of the transcription project of the Register of Returned Convicts of Aberdeen (1869-1939), involving the Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire Archives and Code the City.
You can read more about his story in this blog post: https://criminalportraits.blogspot.com/2021/02/john-proctor-criminal-record-stretching.html
Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire Archives collects, preserves and makes publicly accessible historical records relating to the City of Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire, and secures significant modern records for future generations.
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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