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The last upload was April 2023.
Employee Health Service Presents the Film Glaucoma--the Sneak Thief of Sight from National Library of Medicine uploaded April 2023
Benjamin Garrett, arrested for breaking and entering a tobacconist's shop from North East Museums uploaded November 2015
Isabella McQue alias Hubbart, arrested for stealing a sealskin coat from North East Museums uploaded September 2015
Thomas H. Watson, arrested while preparing to commit a crime from North East Museums uploaded August 2015
Robert Smith from North East Museums uploaded July 2015
George Thompson, arrested for stealing from a ship chandler's store from North East Museums uploaded June 2015
John Fatherley, arrested for stealing from a ship chandler's store from North East Museums uploaded June 2015
John Grant from North East Museums uploaded May 2015
Thomas Foreman, arrested for breaking and entering a tobacconist's shop from North East Museums uploaded March 2015
William Sayers from North East Museums uploaded February 2015
William Wilson, arrested for stealing fish from North East Museums uploaded February 2015
Richard Percy Stewart from North East Museums uploaded February 2015
John Gumis from North East Museums uploaded February 2015
Alfred Yarrow, arrested for stealing from his mother from North East Museums uploaded February 2015
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James Boyd Potter
from North East Museums
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ianpwatkinson said:
its eraserhead !
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MattysFlicks said:
I retouched this photo and made it into something awesome!
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Elizabeth said:
"Fatty" Potter? How on earth would he have scored a nickname like that!
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Brenda Anderson said:
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
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Brenda Anderson said:
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
William Sayers
from North East Museums
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optimal chicken said:
Now there's a surname which still gets mentions in the local press!!
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Peter said:
I worked with a PC Sayers [https://www.flickr.com/photos/flyeye]
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optimal chicken said:
I've known a PC with that surname too Peter. A common name up this way with both good and bad links..