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English: Name: Robert Jack

Arrested for: False Pretences
Arrested at: North Shields Police Station
Arrested on: 12 January 1905
Tyne and Wear Archives ref: DX1388-1-63-Robert Jack
The Shields Daily News for 12 January 1905 reports:
"At the North Shields Police Court today, Robert Jacks, ships' steward, belonging to Greenock, was charged with obtaining 10s by false pretences, from Charles Swain, tailor and clothier, Bedford Street.
The prosecutor said that at a quarter to 12 on the 6th inst., the prisoner came to his shop and was measured for a suit of clothes. He stated that he was going to Glasgow to get married, and also said that he was going to be paid off from the steamer Brighton on the following morning. Before leaving the shop he obtained a loan of 10s, promising to call next day to have the coat and waistcoat tried on and to repay the loan.
On Monday morning , the 9th inst., witness made inquiries at the shipping office regarding the steamer Brighton and found that it had been paid off on the 31st ult. In answer to the magistrates witness said that he had known the prisoner since last summer, having met him on the Midnight Sun, with which vessel he had some business dealings. Supt. Robt. Walton of the Board of Trade, stated that the Brighton was paid off on the 31st ult. and that the prisoner then received all the money that was due to him.
Detective Sergt. Scougal said he arrested the prisoner on a warrant on board the steamer Pocklington at Tyne Dock on the 11th inst. and charged him. The accused replied "I had no intention of defrauding. If he had waited until the weekend, I would have paid". The accused stated that after ordering the suit he asked Mr Swain for the loan of a few shillings, and he lent him ten. One of the officers of the Brighton had £4 belonging to him and he intended to get that money on the following day and repay Mr Swain. He was unable to obtain it, however.
The Mayor warned the prisoner to be very careful in his statement in future and fined him 10s and costs or fourteen days".
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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