Hard labour for pinching slippers and stealing a violin: Rogues gallery of Victorian soldiers, sailors and workers who were locked up for minor offences
The mugshots were revealed in Doctor Helen Rutherford's book, Newcastle Prison: A History 1828 - 1925, examining crime after the expansion of policing in the city.
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