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English: Name: Alexander Clay

Arrested for: not given
Arrested at: North Shields Police Station
Arrested on: 4 August 1905
Tyne and Wear Archives ref: DX1388-1-75-Alexander Clay
The Shields Daily News for 4 August 1905 reports:
“CASE OF THEFT AT NORTH SHIELDS.
At North Shields Police Court today, Alexander Clay, a young man, was charged on remand with having stolen a brace, valued at £1, the property of Thos. Young Miller, Cartwright, Upper Toll Street.
The prosecutor said the accused had done work for him. On the 24th July he missed a brace from his office and gave information to the police. A week later he was shewn the brace in a pawnshop. Margaret Clay, mother of the accused, said that on July 22nd her son asked her to pledge a brace for a young man who had no money. She pledged it and received 2s 3d and a ticket, which she gave to her son. PC Radcliff gave evidence of arresting and charging the accused, who replied “Yes, that’s right”. On being charged with the theft the accused said “I took it because he owed me money”. The prosecutor admitted that he gave the accused two jobs to do either for money or for a bicycle. He elected to take the bicycle and commenced to do the work but it was not yet finished.
The Clerk (Mr R.F. Kidd): You had no right to help yourself to Mr Miller’s tools. The magistrates fined him 10s, including costs”.
These images are a selection from an album of photographs of prisoners brought before the North Shields Police Court between 1902 and 1916 in the collection of Tyne & Wear Archives (TWA ref DX1388/1).

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