John Herbert Fowler - Saltley Reformatory Inmate
| No. in Admissions Register: | 857 |
| Age: | 17 |
| Whence received: | Transferred from Handsworth Reformatory School |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | - |
| Hair colour: | - |
| Eyes colour: | - |
| Height: | - |
| Particular marks: | - |
| State of health: | - |
| Able-bodied? | - |
| Date of admission: | 14 September 1887 |
| Late residence: | 61 Rosebank View, Burley, Leeds |
| Parish he belongs to: | Leeds |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Shoemaker at Wandsworth |
| Whether illegitimate: | No |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly, 4th Standard |
| Writes: | Imperfectly, 4th Standard |
| Offence: | Escaping from license from Shadwell Lane Industrial School, Leeds |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Bad company and lack of supervision |
| Date of sentence, by whom and court: | 12 May 1886; W Bruce; Leeds Police Court |
| Where imprisoned: | H M Prison Leeds |
| Sentence: | 10 days in prison, 5 years at a reformatory |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | 1 |
| Length: | Industrial School until 16 |
| For what: | Non-attendance at school |
| Father's name: | - |
| Occupation: | - |
| Mother's name: | Isabelle Fowler |
| Occupation: | Tailoress |
| Parents dead? | Father |
| Survivor married again? | No |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Good |
| Character of parents | Supposed good |
| Parents' wages: | Uncertain |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | Not known |
| Parents address: | 61 Rosebank View, Burley, Leeds |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | - |
| Person making this return: | - |
| Notes: | |
| 13 May 1886 There was a report of the offence which sent him to Saltley in the Leeds Mercury Thursday 13 May 1886 p.5 col.4: LEEDS SCHOOL BOARD PROSECUTIONS. - At the Leeds Police-court yesterday, before the stipendiary magistrate, Mr. Bruce, Benjamin Walker Smith, aged fifteen years, was charged with absconding from the Shadwell Certified Industrial School; and John Herbert Fowler, of 61, Rosebank-view, Burley-road, Leeds, aged fifteen years, who was on license from the above school, was charged with escaping from the person with whom he had been placed on license, and with general bad conduct. They were each committed to prison for ten days, and afterwards to a reformatory school for five years. Mr. W. Lee, Clerk to the Leeds School Board, conducted the cases on behalf of the board. | |
| 15 December 1887 The Medical Officer reported: Bronchitis, ordered sick room and medicine. Next day the MO noted he had an intestinal complaint and it looked like typhoid fever. He ordered isolation and a milk diet. | |
| 14 March 1889 Formally discharged from Saltley by order of the Home Secretary, on account of emigrating to Canada, along with Salt [boy 787] and Spooner [boy 804] | |
| 6 August 1889 The Reformatory Committee Log Book report records receipt of a letter from Fowler, Ottawa, Canada | |
| 10 December 1889 The Log Book report records receipt of a letter from Fowler | |
| 10 June 1890 The Log Book report records receipt of a letter from Fowler, Forest River, North Dakota | |
| 19 August 1890 The Log Book report records receipt of a letter from Fowler, Ottawa, Canada | |
| 13 October 1896 The Log Book report records receipt of a letter from Fowler, Ottawa, Canada | |
| 9 February 1897 The Log Book report records receipt of a letter from Fowler, Canada. (Fowler just about to start in business on his own account. Apparently doing well) | |