Mug Shots: A Small Town Noir (2014)
The article explores the story of Martin Fobes, who was arrested in 1957 for driving while intoxicated in New Castle, Pennsylvania. His mug shot, along with others, was discovered years later by the author, leading to an investigation into Fobes' past and the circumstances surrounding a tragic incident involving a young woman. The narrative reflects on the lives captured in mug shots and the stories that often remain untold.
- ▪Martin Fobes was arrested in 1957 for driving while intoxicated in New Castle, Pennsylvania.
- ▪The author found Fobes' mug shot years later among a collection of historical photographs purchased online.
- ▪Fobes was linked to the mysterious death of an eighteen-year-old girl named Anna Grace Robertson, who died three days after being found unconscious.
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Mug Shots: A Small Town Noir By Diarmid Mogg – Published April 3, 2014 Floyd M. Armstrong, arrested for loitering (and possibly stealing a roll of pennies and a box of shotgun shells) on a summer night in 1957, in New Castle, PA. Diarmid Mogg Martin Fobes woke up to the sound of officers from the New Castle police department banging on his front door. It was early on a January morning, still dark, and he was lying flat on his living room floor, where he had passed out a few hours previously. The police took him downtown and charged him with driving while intoxicated. They sat him in a chair against a white wall and slotted numbered tiles into a board behind him, to record the fact that he was the four thousand eight hundred and eighty-third person to have been processed in that room.
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