A troubled and impecunious giant was brought up at Bow-street the other day before the presiding magistrate. : His name was James Patrick Tolley, aged forty-eight, standing seven feet five inches in his stockings ...

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1887
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view A troubled and impecunious giant was brought up at Bow-street the other day before the presiding magistrate. : His name was James Patrick Tolley, aged forty-eight, standing seven feet five inches in his stockings ...

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A troubled and impecunious giant was brought up at Bow-street the other day before the presiding magistrate. : His name was James Patrick Tolley, aged forty-eight, standing seven feet five inches in his stockings ... Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Newspaper cuttings, dated Monday 11 April 1887 describing Irishman James Patrick Tolley's being arrested in Tottenham Court Road, drunk and disorderly, fighting with the arresting officer, his appearance in court and some writing about the nature of giants in general. These have been mounted onto tissue paper.

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[London] : The Daily Telegraph, 1887.

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1 sheet ; 38 x 24 cm

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