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  • The Good Michael
    Assistant Commissioner
    • Feb 2008
    • 3773

    #16
    Suzi,

    But I wasn't stealing anything. I was just taking pictures from the portico... naughty ones.

    Mike
    huh?

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    • halomanuk
      Detective
      • Mar 2008
      • 365

      #17
      Funny we should be talking about breaking and entering but following on from the #9 picture that looks like the name John Small,there is a case in 1882 of a John Small,30 years old,who was caught breaking and entering with 3 other accomplices :



      Concidence ? he would have been 36 in 1888.

      Makes me wonder if the picture we are looking at are all conmen and burglars/thieves rather than anything more than that - Ostrog would definately fit into that category.
      Last edited by halomanuk; 05-14-2009, 04:10 PM.

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      • Suzi
        Superintendent
        • Feb 2008
        • 2167

        #18
        Hi Ben
        Re: The Old Bailey case below- I see that an employee at the muffler shop (!) was one Joseph Prater!!

        Suz x
        Last edited by Suzi; 05-14-2009, 05:39 PM.
        'Would you like to see my African curiosities?'

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        • Suzi
          Superintendent
          • Feb 2008
          • 2167

          #19
          As a by the by -Number 16- one George Williams.

          Just been trawling the Old Bailey records-

          A George Williams was greviously assulted by one John Mason on 9th January 1882. This George Williams was described as a porter,residing at 16,Great Garden Street, Whitechapel.
          'Would you like to see my African curiosities?'

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          • Sam Flynn
            Casebook Supporter
            • Feb 2008
            • 13333

            #20
            Originally posted by Suzi View Post
            Hi Ben
            Re: The Old Bailey case below- I see that an employee at the muffler shop (!) was one Joseph Prater!!
            ... dark Dids are afoot!
            Kind regards, Sam Flynn

            "Suche Nullen" (Nietzsche, Götzendämmerung, 1888)

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            • Stephen Thomas
              Chief Inspector
              • Feb 2008
              • 1728

              #21
              Originally posted by Suzi View Post
              A 'portico thief' was the name given to a burglar who would climb onto the portico of a house in order to gain access from that vantage point. (Sort of like a cat-burglar!)
              Thanks for that Suzi!

              The blushing bride she looks divine
              The bridegroom he is doing fine
              I'd rather have his job than mine
              When I'm portico thieving

              allisvanityandvexationofspirit

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              • Christine
                Detective
                • Apr 2008
                • 291

                #22
                These look like they were cut down from a set of larger images. Does anyone know where the original images come from? A book, perhaps?

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                • Suzi
                  Superintendent
                  • Feb 2008
                  • 2167

                  #23
                  Hi Christine
                  I recall seeing that image in quite a few places...sure it's in my A-Z,but as I'm at work at the mo I can't be sure (Oddly I don't have it on me!). Somebody will know where it's from I'm sure maybe it came from a sort of mug shot book- that's my guess.

                  Suzi x
                  'Would you like to see my African curiosities?'

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