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The last upload was September 2015.
James Lee from North East Museums uploaded September 2015
William Wade alias Nursay, arrested for stealing money from North East Museums uploaded April 2015
Henry Wilson alias Charles Murray from North East Museums uploaded February 2015
William Jones from North East Museums uploaded August 2012
William J Robinson from North East Museums uploaded August 2012
James Boyd Potter from North East Museums uploaded August 2012
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William Jones
from North East Museums
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Seth Gaines said:
The Benwell Hotel certainly is(was) in Newcastle.
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North East Museums said:
Yes - if anybody can help with any info on this intriguing comment we'd be very grateful! We haven't been able to find a date for his death (under either name) so we can't check newspapers at the moment.
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Seth Gaines said:
I tried all the people with distinctive names, and struck out. Very surprising not to even turn up one death notice.
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Seth Gaines said:
You mean crime didn't just start last week?
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wattlesong said:
I have found a 'possible' in The Times, one William Hall. I will provide a transcription here and apologise for the size of my comment. I write from Australia and wonder if someone more local might be able to follow up the clues in the article to see if this is 'our man'.
Transcription:
[The Times (London, England), Tuesday, Aug 30, 1932; pg. 12; Issue 46225.].
Man Killed By Fall From A Roof: Slip When Defying Police
William Hall, lately living at Newcastle-on-Tyne, was killed by a fall from the roof of a house at Newcastle early yesterday. It was stated that the police were about to arrest him and another man for alleged attempted burglary at a near-by hotel. The other man was arrested.
At Newcastle police court yesterday, JAMES BISCOFF WHITEHEAD, 28, of Back Scotswood Road, unemployed, labourer, was remanded for a week on a charge of attempting to break into Benwell Hotel in Adelaide Terrace with intent to commit a felony.
Inspector Russell said he surrounded the building with the aid of persons living near by. Hall, the dead man, who had a jemmy, knocked off a chimney stack and threw slates and masonry on to the crowd below. In attempting to knock off another chimney pot he fell into the backyard and met his death through a fractured skull. The witness added that Whitehead jumped into the back lane and was arrested.
[Many thanks to Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums for uploading these extraordinary photographs, and to the State Library of Western Australia for their research seminars and online resources].
William Wade alias Nursay, arrested for stealing money
from North East Museums
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SandyEm said:
Poor tyke...looks tired and no doubt hungry.
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optimal chicken said:
This is it - done through need not want.
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Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums said:
SandyEm [https://www.flickr.com/photos/flyeye] I've added the story relating to this arrest as well as for a later court appearance. It looks like hunger was definitely a factor, as you both suspected.
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optimal chicken said:
Thanks for that. So sad though.