Albert Fox - Saltley Reformatory Inmate
| No. in Admissions Register: | 861 |
| Age: | 12 |
| Whence received: | H M Prison Birmingham |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | Sallow |
| Hair colour: | Dark brown |
| Eyes colour: | Brown |
| Height: | |
| Particular marks: | Mole on top of chest, mole on left shoulder |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Date of admission: | 11 November 1887 |
| Late residence: | 27 Hardware Street, West Bromwich |
| Parish he belongs to: | West Bromwich |
| Customary work and mode of life: | None |
| Whether illegitimate: | No |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | Imperfectly |
| Offence: | Stealing 4 pocket knives |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Boy says he was hungry and intended to buy something to eat after selling the knives |
| Date of sentence, by whom and court: | 29 October 1887; A C G Calthorpe and W M Ellis; West Bromwich |
| Where imprisoned: | H M Prison Birmingham |
| Sentence: | 14 days hard labour in prison, 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | 1 (about a year ago) |
| Length: | 6 strokes with birch rod |
| For what: | Stealing tobacco |
| Father's name: | Albert Fox |
| Occupation: | Stoker |
| Mother's name: | Elizabeth Fox |
| Occupation: | - |
| Parents dead? | Both alive |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Good |
| Character of parents | Family respectable. Mother is an invalid (paralysed) |
| Parents' wages: | Father earns about 17s weekly |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | Not yet assessed |
| Parents address: | 27 Hardware Street, West Bromwich |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | Superintendent A Whitburn, County Constabulary Office, West Bromwich |
| Person making this return: | M Elliott, Clerk to the Visiting Committee, H M Prison Birmingham |
| Notes: | |
| 31 October 1887 There was a report of the crime in the Birmingham Daily Post Monday 31 October 1887 p.6 col.6: WEST BROMWICH POLICE COURT. - SATURDAY. - Before the Hon. A. C. G. Calthorpe, Messrs. Ellis, WilIiams, and Warden, YOUNG VAGABONDS. - Albert Fox (12), Hardware Street, and Jesse Fieldhouse (12), Croft Street, West Bromwich, were charged with stealing four knives from the shop of John Barrie, tea dealer, High Street, on Thursday. - The knives were missed from the prosecutor's shop, and some time after the prisoners met the girls coming from Sandwell Hall School, and threatened to stab them. The girls complained, and enquiries were made, resulting in the arrest of the prisoners who had the knives with them. - Detective Price said that when he arrested prisoners they were engaged in stealing bloaters. - Fox, who received a bad character, was sent to gaol for fourteen days, to be followed by five years' detention in a reformatory school Fieldhouse was ordered to receive eight strokes with the birch. | |
| 15 December 1887 The Medical Officer reported: Pleurisy. Ordered poultices and medicine. Better by 28 December | |
| 26 March 1888 The Medical Officer reported: Eczema | |
| 16 August 1890 The Register of Boys on Licence records that Fox was licensed to go out and work for Mr Spencer, Wednesbury | |
| 9 December 1890 The Reformatory Committee Log Book report records receipt of a letter from Fox, West Bromwich | |
| 13 October 1891 The Log Book report records receipt of a letter from Fox, West Bromwich | |
| 10 November 1892 Sentence expired whilst on licence, discharged from Saltley | |
| 7 May 1893 The Log Book report records receipt of a letter from Fox, West Bromwich | |
| 26 April 1894 The Log Book report records receipt of a letter from Fox, West Bromwich | |
| 12 February 1895 The Log Book report records receipt of a letter from Fox, West Bromwich | |
| 11 June 1895 The Log Book report records receipt of a letter from Fox, West Bromwich | |
| 10 December 1895 The Log Book report records receipt of a letter from Fox, West Bromwich | |