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73 photos and 5 illustrations tagged chalk, from 12 members of Flickr Commons.

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• handwriting
• crime
• mugshot
• neutralbackground
• digitalimage
• unusual
• blackandwhitephotograph
• socialhistory
• prisoner
• northshields
• northshieldspolicecourt
• board
• portrait
• northshieldspolicestation
• northeastofengland
• unitedkingdom
• crease
• archives
• publicrecords
• wall
• hat
• screw
• mark
• grain

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• North East Museums 53 photos & illustrations
• Navy Medicine 9 photos & illustrations
• British Library 4 photos & illustrations
• The Library of Congress 3 photos & illustrations
• Smithsonian Institution 2 photos & illustrations
• Museum of Hartlepool 1 photo / illustration
• National Library of Medicine 1 photo / illustration
• National Library of Ireland on The Commons 1 photo / illustration
• Fylkesarkivet i Vestland 1 photo / illustration
• State Library of Queensland 1 photo / illustration
• Nationaal Archief 1 photo / illustration
• State Library of New South Wales 1 photo / illustration

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Joseph Tombling, arrested for obtaining money by false pretences

from North East Museums

• optimal chicken said:

  'Don't do the crime if you can't take the time.'

Thomas Wallace, arrested for indecent exposure

from North East Museums

• 2 older comments, and then…
• optimal chicken said:

  Oh no.. This is the very first case I've seen of this in old pics of this type. Little has changed in human behaviour so I wonder if other instances have simply been omitted from public records?

• Photos of the Past said:

  

• Photos of the Past said:

  

• optimal chicken said:

  Blimey. Seems it was prevalent even then.

• Photos of the Past said:

  Ha, though what constitutes indecent exposure has probably changed a bit - maybe he was just having a pee behind a tree, or forgot to pull the bathroom curtains?

William Shaw

from North East Museums

• optimal chicken said:

  I'm all innocent - what was frequenting? Is it another name for prostitution?

• Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums said:

  Hi Paul, the term frequenting seems to mean that the offender was caught in circumstances which led the police to suspect that a crime was about to be committed. I've added some more detail above, which should help to clarify things. There's also another example of frequenting here www.flickr.com/photos/twm_news/17284160436/in/album-72157....

• optimal chicken said:

  Ah gotcha! Like 'casing a joint' as I'd say here. Watching, observing times and seeing what can be taken. I guess they had enough evidence at the time to arrest them.