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What is a Buffalo Bill on a hand?

This is from the Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, 8 July 1924: NEWCASTLE QUARTER SESSIONS Robert James Lockey and George Gilchrist, labourers were sentenced to nine months' imprisonment for shopbreaking. John William Archibold was sent to three years' penal servitude for a similar offence, the Recorder remarking that Archibold had deliberately and systematically entered upon a life of crime.

its eraserhead !

I retouched this photo and made it into something awesome!

"Fatty" Potter? How on earth would he have scored a nickname like that!

I found 9 newspaper stories (from 1926-1932) about this fellow. Here's one: A "CAT" MAN CAUGHT -- HID IN A LIFT SHAFT -- Newcastle. Monday. - Described as "a dangerous man who could climb any wall and get to any house window", James Boyd Potter was at Newcastle today sent to prison for three months for being on enclosed premises. Sergt. Robinson found the accused hiding in a lift shaft in buildings in Bath-lane. "It was a dark night," the accused pleaded, "and the doors were open. What could you expect me to do?" -Hull Daily Mail - Monday 11 October 1926

From a year earlier: APPEAL FOR ANOTHER CHANCE -- Man Who Did Not Pretend To Be an Angel. Pleading guilty at Newcastle to two charges of theft from warehouses in which goods valued at £50 15s 9d were involved, James Boyd Potter (25), of no fixed abode, against whom was a long list of previous convictions, appealed to the the Bench for another chance. "I don't want you to think I am an angel," he said. "I have a bad record, but I came out of prison four months ago, after a sentence of eighteen months, determined to do what was right. I had not a penny and could not get work. I am willing to do anything. I have had no assistance from the parish or the "dole." Give me another chance, and if I come back you can send me to prison for as long as you like. Prison has no effect on me." Mr. C.J. Dymond (chairman) said it was difficult to know what to do with a man with a record like accused. However, they decided not to send him for trial. He would have to go to prison for twelve months. "Twelve months! And I will come out without a penny!" exclaimed accused as he went below to the cells. Dundee Evening Telegraph - Friday 13 November 1925

According to The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.), 30 July 1915, image 6, col 4. chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88064402/1915-07-30/ed-... Dr R. L. Wilson was the surgeon in charge of the federal quarantine station at Galveston. There was clearly a controversy between state and federal responsibility for inspecting incoming vessels.

Thanks for the information swanq. I found several newspapers of the time that list him at Dr. Robert L. Wilson.