Arthur Pagett - Saltley Reformatory Inmate
| No. in Admissions Register: | 889 |
| Age: | 13 (on 6 August 1888) |
| Whence received: | H M Prison Stafford |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Light brown |
| Eyes colour: | Hazel |
| Height: | 4 ft 5½ ins |
| Particular marks: | Cut top of nose |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Date of admission: | 13 August 1888 |
| Late residence: | Blewitt Street, Pensnett |
| Parish he belongs to: | Kingswinford, Staffordshire |
| Customary work and mode of life: | None, a schoolboy |
| Whether illegitimate: | No |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly, 3rd Standard |
| Writes: | Imperfectly, 3rd Standard |
| Offence: | Stealing money |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Bad company. Arthur Pagett is a well-known associate of thieves |
| Date of sentence, by whom and court: | 23 July 1888; H Smith and H Hall; Brierley Hill Court of Summary Jurisdiction |
| Where imprisoned: | H M Prison Stafford |
| Sentence: | 21 days hard labour in prison, 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | 2 |
| Length: | 1) 7 strokes; 2) 6 strokes |
| For what: | 1) Stealing coal; 2) stealing coal |
| Father's name: | Stephen Pagett |
| Occupation: | Puddler |
| Mother's name: | Sarah Pagett |
| Occupation: | - |
| Parents dead? | No |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | "Well treated"??? [question marks in original] |
| Character of parents | Parents drunkards and encourage their children to steal |
| Parents' wages: | About 26s per week |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | 1s per week |
| Parents address: | Blewitt Street, Pensnett |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | John Woollaston, Superintendent, Brierley Hill |
| Person making this return: | - |
| Notes: | |
| 28 May 1887 A previous offence was reported in the Stourbridge, Brierley Hill and County Express Saturday 28 May 1887 p.6 col.1: CAUTION TO COAL THIEVES. - Arthur Pagett (11), Louisa Pagett (13), and Phoebe Ann Millinchip (14), all of Pensnett, were charged with stealing coal, of the value of 6d., the property of the Earl of Dudley, from No. 25 pit of the. Willows Colliery. Louisa Pagett and Millinchip were each fined 5s., and Arthur Pagett was ordered to receive six strokes with the birch rod. [A report of the offence in the Cradley Heath and Stourbridge Observer says that it was No.29 pit at the Wallows Colliery (correct name), omits mention of Louisa Pagett, and adds that the offenders were seen taking the coal from the pit mound by P C Adams] | |
| 28 July 1888 The crime that sent him to Saltley was reported in the Dudley Mercury, Stourbridge, Brierley Hill and County Express Saturday 28 July 1888 p.7 col.2: DEFRAUDING A MINISTER. - Arthur Pagett (12), was charged with obtaining 2s. from the Rev. John Shaw, New Connexion minister, Pensnett, on the 10th of April, by means of a trick. - Ann Pittaway, domestic servant, said that the prisoner came to her master's house on the day in question. She asked him what he wanted, and in reply he said "We have got a child dead in the house. We have nothing to eat and nothing to bury the child with." Witness told prosecutor prisoner's statement, and he sent 2s., which she gave to prisoner. - Police-constable Adams said that from enquiries he had made from prisoner's mother, he found that a child had not died in the same house where prisoner lived for two years. When he charged prisoner with stealing money, he said "Yes, I had 2s. I spent it with another boy, named Frank Davies, who had share of it."- The Bench committed prisoner for 21 days at Stafford, and afterwards to a reformatory school for five years. | |
| 5 February 1890 The Medical Officer reported: Influenza | |
| 16 February 1892 The Register of Boys on Licence records that Pagett was licensed to go out and work for Mr J Kent, Olton, nr Birmingham | |
| 14 February 1893 The Reformatory Committee Log Book report records receipt of a letter from Pagett, Pensnett | |
| 12 August 1893 Sentence expired whilst on licence, discharged from Saltley | |