John Edward Fisk - Saltley Reformatory Inmate
| No. in Admissions Register: | 933 |
| Age: | 14 |
| Whence received: | H M Prison Wakefield |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Brown |
| Eyes colour: | Grey |
| Height: | 4 ft 2½ ins |
| Particular marks: | Small mole top of left shoulder |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Date of admission: | 17 October 1889 |
| Late residence: | Carr Gate, near Wakefield |
| Parish he belongs to: | Wakefield |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Harrier(?) in a coal pit |
| Whether illegitimate: | No |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | Imperfectly |
| Offence: | Vagrancy |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Bad company |
| Date of sentence, by whom and court: | 4 October 1889; D B Kendell; West Riding Police Court, Wakefield |
| Where imprisoned: | H M Prison Wakefield |
| Sentence: | 14 days in prison, 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | None |
| Length: | - |
| For what: | - |
| Father's name: | James Fisk |
| Occupation: | - |
| Mother's name: | Elizabeth Ann Fisk (step-mother) |
| Occupation: | - |
| Parents dead? | Mother |
| Survivor married again? | Yes |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Nothing reported |
| Character of parents | Nothing reported |
| Parents' wages: | Not known |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | Not reported |
| Parents address: | Carr Gate, near Wakefield |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | - |
| Person making this return: | - |
| Notes: | |
| 5 October 1889 The crime was reported in the Wakefield Express Saturday 5 October 1889 p.5 col.7: Two pit lads named John William Armitage, of Alverthorpe, and John Albert Fisk, of Robin Hood, were charged with sleeping out. Just before 12 o'clock on Monday night P.C. Mycock found the lads sleeping on Messrs. Colbeck's mill premises at Alverthorpe. Armitage, who is a very bad lad of 17 years, and has already been confined in a reformatory, where he conducted himself badly, was sent to prison for three months and Fisk was ordered to be imprisoned for fourteen days, and afterwards to go to a reformatory for five years. | |
| 4 March 1892 The Medical Officer reported: Eczema capilitis. Better by 8 March | |
| 2 March 1894 The Register of Boys on Licence records that Fisk was licensed to go out and work for Mr Gibson, Banks Farm, Cheadle | |
| 16 October 1894 Sentence expired whilst on licence, discharged from Saltley | |
| 10 December 1895 The Reformatory Committee Log Book report records receipt of a letter from Fisk, Kingsley, Staffordshire | |
| 11 February 1896 The Log Book report records receipt of a letter from Fisk, Kingsley, Staffordshire | |
| 8 December 1896 The Log Book report records receipt of a letter from Fisk, cowman, Kingsley, North Staffordshire. (Doing well. A very decent lad. Attends church regularly, Takes Reading Room) | |
| 27 April 1898 The Log Book report records receipt of a letter from Fisk, Ardsley, Leeds | |