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William Coton - Saltley Reformatory Inmate

No. in Admissions Register: 253
Date of admission: 2 May 1863
Whence received: Birmingham Gaol
By whom brought: -
On what terms: -
Friends interested in him: -
Description:
Height: -
Figure: -
Complexion: Fresh
Hair colour: Brown
Eyes colour: Brown
Perfect vision? Yes
State of health: Good
Able-bodied? Yes
Sound intellect? Yes
Use of all limbs? Yes
Had cow or small pox? Cowpox
Particular marks: Scars on knee and mole on body
Cutaneous disorder? Yes
Scrofulous or consumptive? No
Subject to fits? No
Age last birthday: 11
Illegitimate? Not known
Birthday: -
Birth place: -
Has resided: 6 Charles Henry Street, Birmingham
Parish he belongs to: Birmingham
Customary work and mode of life: Dipper
Schools attended: -
By whom and where employed: -
State of education:
Reads: Not at all
Writes: Not at all
Cyphers: -
General ability: -
Offence: Stealing 5 yards of flannel
Circumstances which may have led to it: Bad company
Date of sentence: 20 April 1863
Where convicted: Moor Street, before T C S Kynnersley
Who prosecuted: -
Where imprisoned: -
Sentence: 14 days prison, 5 years at Saltley
Previous committals and convictions: Stealing cigars (3 days and whipped)
Father's name: -
Occupation: -
Residence: -
Mother's name: Mary Coton
Occupation: Screw maker
Residence: 18 Barford Street, Moseley Street, Birmingham [6 Prince of Wales Terrace and Charles Henry Street both crossed out]
Father's character: -
Mother's character: -
Parents dead? Father
Survivor married again? Not
Parents' treatment of child: -
Character of parents -
Parents' wages: -
Amount parents agree to pay: Miserably poor; can pay nothing
Superintendent of police (to collect payments):      -
Relatives to communicate with: -
Person making this return: T C S Kynnersley
Estimate of character on admission: -
Character on discharge: -
When and how left the Reformatory: 1 May 1868 - Discharged at the expiry of his sentence


Notes:

21 March 1863 There is a report of his previous offence in the Birmingham Journal Saturday 21 March 1863 p.6 col.6: CAPTURE OF A GANG OF YOUNG THIEVES. - Five lads, named Benjamin Smith, Morville Street; Alfred Warburton, Tennant Street: William Coton, Charles Henry Street: Daniel Vale, Ruston street North : and Edward Perks, Washington Street, were charged with having stolen a quantity of cigars, from the shop of Mr. Breley, tobacconist, 29, Cherry Street. The young thieves, it seems, sneaked into the prosecutor's shop on the previous afternoon, and pocketed a number of cigars from the counter and were about to take a box from the window, when the prosecutor ran into the shop, and locked the front door. Vale had been previously convicted. He was now ordered to be imprisoned for fourteen days, and at the expiration of that term sent to the reformatory school for five years. Coton. Smith, Warburton. and Perks, were ordered to be imprisoned for three days, and to be well whipped.
 
25 June 1864 Absconded while in the yard, shoe cleaning. Followed and brought back same evening
 
26 December 1866 Called at the school. Brought written character: "honest and industrious"
 
29 January 1867 Caught hanging about in the Market shoe-blacking, etc, and brought back to the school
 
1 May 1868 Discharged
 
December 1870 Unknown
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