Vintage Mugshots

[SimoneFlen']

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Ruby Fox (right) and Myrtle Hetrick (left) were convicted of "escaping from custody" after they broke out of Nebraska's Reformatory for Women in York. Fox was serving time for breaking and entering while Myrtle for vagrancy.

With the aid of an unnamed man, the two fled Nebraska in an automobile but were later captured in Wyoming. After their arrest, both requested to go to the Nebraska State Prison instead of returning to the woman's reformatory.


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Jennie Lester was arrested in March 1914 in Nebraska's Phelps County for enticing to illicit intercourse. She was sentenced to 1-3 years in the Nebraska State Prison.


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Edith Towel was arrested multiple times, usually on charges of petty theft. Her last crime (or at least her last booking on police records) was in 1897 for stealing apparel and a watch.


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Helen Jarabek was a repeat offender having been arrested before for petty theft.

This time, Jarabek was booked in Boston after leading police on a foot chase through the city. She was arrested on two counts of larceny. One count was for stealing a purse from a woman in a department store and the other was for shoplifting hosiery.


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Lora Hawk, 18. The charges of her arrest written in the police ledger from the Vancouver police department are not legible but it does state that Hawk was arrested on Halloween in 1919.


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Lulu Williams was arrested and brought into the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department in 1896.


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Mary Shannon was sentenced to two years in the Nebraska State Prison for mayhem in May 1925.


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Sarah McDonald, 22, was arrested during a murder investigation involving the discovery of a baby's corpse inside a suitcase behind a house in a wealthy neighborhood in Providence, Rhode Island.

After McDonald was arrested, she claimed that the 11-month-old had died of natural causes but an autopsy revealed the baby had been beaten to death. She was charged for her baby's murder and sent to jail. Some later speculated that McDonald dumped the baby in the yard of a rich family who she used to work for because she had gotten pregnant by one of the family's sons.


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Sybel Wolfe, 23, was arrested for grand larceny on April 12, 1911.

According to police records, she gave birth in the Clark County jail six days after her sentencing. Wolfe was later pardoned by the Washington governor for her crime and sent home to Iowa.


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Lola Lopez was arrested after her partner Cicerio Estrada robbed and killed a man in the Null Rooming House of Sidney, Nebraska, on Jan. 9, 1922.

The partners in crime fled the scene but were later discovered in Colorado. During trial, through an interpreter, the Mexican-born Lopez pleaded not guilty but admitted that she knew of the murder. She served two years, two months, and 22 days.


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Clotilde Adnet, 19, was arrested as an anarchist in Paris, c.1894.


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Laura Belle Devlin was arrested in 1947 after she murdered and dismembered her 75-year-old husband with a hacksaw, throwing some of his body parts in the wood stove and the rest in their backyard in Newark, Ohio.

Devlin was cooperative during police questioning, admitting that she had beaten her husband after he threw a dish at her. She initially refused to take off her stocking cap for her mugshot as her "hair was a mess."


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Jeanne Malpet, 51, was arrested as an anarchist in Paris in 1894.


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In 1923, Clara Randall reported to New South Wales police that her flat had been broken into and a quantity of jewelry stolen. It was later discovered she had pawned the jewelry for cash.


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Catherine Flynn, 34, was sentenced to six months in about 1871 in Newcastle, England, for stealing money.


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Appoline Minna, 19, was arrested for conspiracy in Paris in 1894.


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Mattie Brown was sent to the Nebraska State Prison on Sept. 25, 1917, for larceny from a person in Douglas County. "Larceny of a person" was often the legal term to describe pick-pocketing. She spent a year there.


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Isabella McQue was arrested for stealing a sealskin coat in North Shields, England, in 1915.


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Caroline Clotilde, 43, was arrested as an anarchist in Paris in 1894.


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Valerie Lowe was arrested for breaking into an army warehouse and stealing boots and overcoats, among other theft charges in 1922 in New South Wales.


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Helen Sullivan, 21, was arrested for "joy riding on public highway" and spent 90 days in the Clark County jail in Washington.


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Lillian Tibbs was arrested for stealing in North Shields, England in 1914.


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Eliza Wright, 23, was arrested on Dec. 17, 1909, for false pretenses (obtaining money or goods by deception). Wright spent her Christmas and New Year's behind bars.


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Mary Brewis was arrested for larceny of coal in 1908 in North Shields, England.


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Peggy Hudson and her husband did time after they robbed her former employer.

As Los Angeles restaurant owner Charles Anderson told police, "I didn’t get a good look at her face, but I saw her legs, and I could pick them out any time." Anderson claimed the legs he saw during his mugging belonged to Nora Hudson, better known as Peggy, who had worked as a cashier for his eatery. The couple was arrested in 1928 for making away with $382 of cash from Anderson's restaurant profits.


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Catherine O'Neill was arrested in New York for an unspecified crime in 1906.


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Eileen May O’Connor, 17, was arrested for stealing a wallet in 1927 in New South Wales, Australia.


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Annette Soubrier, 28, was arrested as an anarchist in Paris in 1894.


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Ellen Healey was arrested for stealing a pair of boots. in 1908 in North Shields, England.


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Jane Cartner, 22, stole a silver watch and was sentenced to six months in jail around 1871 in Newcastle, England.


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Janet Borland teamed up with car thief Clarence Campbell whom she had just met before her arrest. in 1936.

After the two fled in a Chrysler Coupé they stole, police tracked them to the home of Borland's friend in Ellwood City. Police arrested Borland and booked her into jail in New Castle, Pennsylvania.


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Maud Johnson was arrested in 1910 for an unspecified crime. After she was pardoned by the Washington governor in 1912, Johnson violated her parole four months later. The Vancouver police posted a $50 reward for her capture.


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In November 1904, Fay Buck was arrested in San Francisco for stealing clothes and furs valued at $540 (more than $15,000 in today's currency rate) from her landlady, Rose Decker who ran a "sporting house" in the city's seed Tenderloin district.

Buck testified she had been lured into Decker's "house of ill-repute" and that she stole the clothes to sell them and escape from a "life of shame."


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Maud M. Garmey, arrested for theft in North Shields, England. 1905.


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Elizabeth Cross, arrested for larceny. North Shields, England. 1906.


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Elizabeth M. Cambettie, arrested for stealing a skirt. North Shields, England. 1906.


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Mabel Smith, arrested for larceny. North Shields, England. 1903.

[K53]

Laura (#12) appears to have been a woman of serious mental health issues.

[marcos_69]

No. 25
"As Los Angeles restaurant owner Charles Anderson told police, "I didn’t get a good look at her face, but I saw her legs, and I could pick them out any time." Anderson claimed the legs he saw during his mugging belonged to Nora Hudson..."

I wonder if they did a police lineup of just legs...

[10michele62]

Someone needs to convince me #13 is actually a female.

[VileBreed]

.25 She’s kinda hot.

[K53]

#25 agreed, she was a cutie

[SimoneFlen']

To go with #1:

1922

[Bastet]

Great collection! Lulu Williams (#6) is extremely photogenic and Jennie Lester (#2) has a serious "don't fuck with me!" vibe

Originally Posted by K53

Laura (#12) appears to have been a woman of serious mental health issues.

Yeah, you can see it from her eyes. I wouldn't want to run into someone like her even in broad daylight, let alone a dark alleyway

[K53]

Great find, Thanks for updating #1

[Vixənn]