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Thomas Kane, arrested for stealing a pony, harness and cart
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Name: Thomas Kane.Arrested for: Larceny.Arrested at: North Shields Police Station.Arrested on: 6 August 1904.Tyne and Wear Archives ref: DX1388-1-53-Thomas Kane..The Shields Daily Gazette for 9 August 1904 reports:..Thomas Kane, 16, 60 Brunswick Street, South Shields was charged at North Shields today with stealing on the 5th inst. a pony, a set of harness and a cart, valued at £12 5s from the Fish Quay, the property of J. Foster...Joseph Foster, a cartman of Felling, said that at about one o’clock he took his cart to the east end of the Quay and there left it while he went to buy some fish. On returning a quarter of an hour later he missed it...Sergt. Proud spoke to receiving the prisoner into custody from the Blyth police on the 5th inst. and he also recovered the cart and pony. In answer to the charge, prisoner replied “Yes, I tried to sell it to a man on the road to Blyth, but he would not buy it”. The magistrates committed him to the next Quarter Sessions”...The Shields Daily Gazette for 21 October 1904 reports:..“THEFT OF A PONY AND CART..Thomas Kane (16) a miner, pleaded guilty to stealing a pony, set of harness and spring cart, the property of Joseph Forster, at the Borough of Tynemouth on August 5th. As accused was bound over about a year ago for a similar offence, he was sent to prison for three months”...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)...This set contains mugshots of boys and girls under the age of 21. This reflects the fact that until 1970 that was the legal age of majority in the UK...(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 [email protected].
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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