Frederick Maund - Saltley Reformatory Inmate
| No. in Admissions Register: | 875 |
| Age: | 15 years 9 months |
| Whence received: | H M Prison Stafford |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | Pale |
| Hair colour: | Brown |
| Eyes colour: | Brown |
| Height: | 5 ft 0¾ ins |
| Particular marks: | 2 moles on right cheek |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Medium |
| Date of admission: | 25 February 1888 |
| Late residence: | 94 Paddock Lane, Walsall |
| Parish he belongs to: | Walsall |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Brass casting |
| Whether illegitimate: | No |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly, 3rd Standard |
| Writes: | Imperfectly, 3rd Standard |
| Offence: | Stealing oranges from a shop |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Bad company |
| Date of sentence, by whom and court: | 6 February 1888; E Bliss and J Lindop; Walsall Police Court |
| Where imprisoned: | H M Prison Stafford |
| Sentence: | 21 days in prison and 4 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | 1 |
| Length: | 3 days and 6 strokes |
| For what: | Stealing a pigeon |
| Father's name: | James Maund |
| Occupation: | Brass caster |
| Mother's name: | - |
| Occupation: | - |
| Parents dead? | Mother |
| Survivor married again? | No |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Reported good |
| Character of parents | Only fair. Occasionally given to drunkenness |
| Parents' wages: | 25s weekly |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | 1s 6d |
| Parents address: | 94 Paddock Lane, Walsall |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | C Taylor, Chief Constable, Walsall |
| Person making this return: | - |
| Notes: | |
| 4 February 1888 There is a report of the crime in the Walsall Observer and South Staffordshire Chronicle Saturday 4 February 1888 p.7 col.4: JUVENILE THIEVES. - Frederick Maund (15), 94, Paddock Lane, and James Coyne (13) and Mark Kendrick (8), both of Ball Street. were charged with breaking a shop window and stealing about two dozen of oranges, of the value of 1s., the property of Thomas Pearson, 9, Walsingham Street, plasterer. - Prosecutor keeps a small shop in Walsingham Street, and on the previous Friday, during his absence, a pane of glass was broken and the oranges taken. He gave information to the police, who, after making inquiries, arrested the prisoners. - A lad, who was called as a witness, stated that the prisoners offered him some of the oranges, accounting for their possession by saying "they gave a window a dinger and the oranges rolled out." - It was shown that Maund was the ringleader in the affair, and as he had been previously convicted the Bench remanded him for a week, in order that arrangements might be made for him being sent to a reformatory. Coyne was order to receive ten strokes with the birch rod, and to go to gaol for three days; and Kendrick was ordered to receive six strokes, and to go to gaol for one day. | |
| 19 June 1890 Discharged early from Saltley on account of emigrating to Canada with Jones (boy 846) and Birchall (boy 881) | |
| 19 August 1890 The Reformatory Committee Log Book report records receipt of a letter from Maund, Totonto, Canada | |