Time traveller from 1902.

I have just found a brilliant photo from 1902. taken possibly during arrest of certain James Williams who was caught in theft. In fact we can even trace the newspaper article describing what happened:

"LARCENY AT NORTH SHIELDS.-- James Williams, labourer, Beacon Street, was charged at North Shields yesterday with stealing a guernsey valued at 12s, the property of Robert Graham, from a shop door in Beacon Street, on the 23rd inst. Miss Appleby stated she was an assistant with Mr Graham, pawnbroker. The goods produced were from her master's, and she missed them from the shop door. -- Sergeant Proud stated that accused went into the police station on Saturday night in a state of drunkenness. He said he had stolen the guernsey produced from Mr Graham's, and he wanted to be locked up. He was detained upon a charge of drunkenness, and from inquiries witness subsequently made he charged defendant with stealing the article. He replied, "I never intended stealing it or I wouldn't have brought it here." Defendant's employer spoke on his behalf, and said that during the eight years he had been with him defendant had been entrusted with thousands of pounds and nothing had gone wrong. Defendant was dismissed, the Chairman advising him to sign the pledge."

-- Shields Daily Gazette, 26 Aug 1902, page 3."

The reason why this photo resonates with me is that Williams looks completely contemporary - he could have been just anybody from our current times, somehow transported into 1902. And the best of all, he looks completely unrepentant, like "what are you staring at?" - it is not often that in the old pictures we somehow see the characters similar to ours - most of the time people look stuck in their particular times but this man is a first class time traveller.