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Portrait of Claude Servais Mathias Pouillet (1790-1868), Physicist and Engineer

from Smithsonian Institution

William Jones

from North East Museums

  • 13 older comments, and then…
  • Seth Gaines said:
    The Benwell Hotel certainly is(was) in Newcastle.
  • 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.
  • Seth Gaines said:
    I tried all the people with distinctive names, and struck out. Very surprising not to even turn up one death notice.
  • Seth Gaines said:
    You mean crime didn't just start last week?
  • 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].

Leonard Ochtman

from Smithsonian Institution