John Grant, arrested for stealing from a public house, North Shields, UK, 1904 (b/w photo)

Name: John Grant Arrested for: Larceny Arrested at: North Shields Police Station Arrested on: 13 February 1904 The Shields Daily Gazette for 15 February 1904 reports: "PUBLIC HOUSE THEFT Two fisherman named John Grant (31) of North Shields and John Gillan (44) of North Berwick, went into the Newcastle Arms, Union Quay, North Shields on Friday morning at half-past six. There was a glass of money standing on the counter, which one of the assistants ought to have taken upstairs the previous night but forgot to do so. When they left the bar they took the glass and the money, £1 18s 6d, with them. PC Spindler apprehended them at the Fish Quay. Neither of them denied the charge, and both were fined 10s and costs". Prisoners brought before the North Shields Police Court between 1902 and 1916.