falsepretences

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John Dodgson

from North East Museums

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  • Manxlucky said:
    looks like the bass palyer in a skiffle band circa 1973
  • TheConnCave said:
    "bad character." the monobrow seldom lies. notice how many of these guys had their mouths slacked open...very "'well, iss loike 'iss, innit?"
  • X_Gina_Gee_X said:
    Notice none of them are over 5'8 either
  • Kate McDonnell said:
    Anyone know what "build: prop." is short for? One man is listed as "slim" but most of them are "prop."
  • Peep O'Daze said:
    Maybe it's short for "Proper" i.e. normal?

Percy John Proctor, draper's assistant, arrested for false pretences

from North East Museums

  • optimal chicken said:
    It's strange but some faces I can picture what they looked like once they got to say 60 years.

Mustapha Irola

from North East Museums

  • Workable Stone said:
    "False pretenses" seems redundant to me. Who ever heard of "true pretenses"? What could be the nature of such a crime? It would seem to cover an awful lot.
  • Brenda Anderson said:
    Newpaper account: "FALSE PRETENCES AT NO. SHIELDS -- At North Shields, Mustapha Irola (33), an Italian fireman, was charged on a warrant with having obtained by means of false pretences £1 and a quantity of clothing, valued at 10s, the money and property of Constantine Janieries. Prosecutor said he was a boarding house keeper and resided at 60 Borough Road. On the 28th April the accused came to his house and upon him representing that he was to be paid off from a Liverpool ship at New Quay Shipping Office the following morning he, at prisoner's request, advanced him £1 and credited him with 10s worth of clothing. He (prosecutor) sent his step-son to make inquiries as to the accuracy of his statement, and found that it was false, whereupon he caused a warrant to be issued against accused. The step-son was called and corroborated the evidence of the prosecutor. He added that he had known the accused for three years. Mr Walton, superintendent messenger at the Shipping Office, said that no Liverpool ship was paid off on the date named. Sergt. Proud said he charged the accused on the 17th inst. and he replied, "The prosecutor is a liar. I never got anything from anybody. I was in Constantinople at the time." Formally charged the prisoner denied the offence. He said he got the money from the stepson's father. There was evidence that this man died in February, and the magistrates fined the accused 20s and costs with the alternative of one month's imprisonment." --- Shields Daily Gazette, 20 Aug 1904, page 5