Fletch
I'll Lock Up
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- Iowa - The Land That Stuff Forgot
New Castle, Pennsylvania, that is.
(Sorry Baron, I just couldn't resist following up on your find. Especially since I found this set today by complete coincidence. On the level!)
Historian Angus McDiarmid - not a local; he lives in Scotland! - has gone thru newspapers to reassemble, where possible, the circumstances of each arrest and arrestee connected to these photos, which date from 1933-1958.
"Two days after Thanksgiving, 1941, George Velky forged four checks amounting to $64, with which he bought paint, wall paper and groceries from stores on North Mill street. His choice of alias— George Belky—proved insufficient to keep him out of jail..."
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