Percy White - Saltley Reformatory Inmate
| No. in Admissions Register: | 972 |
| Age: | 12 |
| Whence received: | H M Prison Warwick |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | - |
| Hair colour: | - |
| Eyes colour: | - |
| Height: | - |
| Particular marks: | - |
| State of health: | - |
| Able-bodied? | - |
| Date of admission: | 3 October 1891 |
| Late residence: | 1 Woodbine Cottages, Woodbine Street, Milverton, Warwickshire |
| Parish he belongs to: | Warwick |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Has been employed as butcher's errand boy |
| Whether illegitimate: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly, Standard 2 |
| Writes: | Imperfectly, Standard 2 |
| Offence: | Stealing 2 pairs of gloves from a shop |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | - |
| Date of sentence, by whom and court: | 25 September 1891; S T Wackrell; Leamington Police court |
| Where imprisoned: | H M Prison Warwick |
| Sentence: | 10 days in prison, 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | 2 |
| Length: | 1) 3 strokes; 2) 10 strokes |
| For what: | 1) Non attendance at school; 2) Stealing a horse and trap |
| Father's name: | Charles White |
| Occupation: | Stone mason |
| Mother's name: | Elizabeth White |
| Occupation: | Occasional charwoman |
| Parents dead? | Neither |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | - |
| Character of parents | - |
| Parents' wages: | - |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | - |
| Parents address: | 1 Woodbine Cottages, Woodbine Street, Milverton |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | - |
| Person making this return: | - |
| Notes: | |
| 22 August 1891 There is a report of a previous offence in the Warwick and Warwickshire Advertiser Saturday 22 August 1891 p.8 col.5: Percy White (13), of the Woodbine-cottages, Woodblne-street, and John Mulrain (10), were jointly charged with stealing a horse, wagonette, and harness from the Willington Mews, Regent-street, of the value of £30, the property of William Feasey, No. 2, Church-hlll, on the 20th inst. Christopher Feasey, son of the prosecutor, said he left about eleven o'clock on Thursday morning all secure and locked, and put the key under the door so that It might be found in case of fire. He left a chestnut horse and a wagonette and the harness in the coach-house. Witness returned about 12.40, when he found door locked and the key in the place where he left it; but found the chestnut horse was missing. He enquired If the horse had been let out, but found it had not, and he then missed a waggonette and the plated harness. Witness then became suspicious and went down to the Police-station and gave information. - P.C. Ryder said he was informed yesterday by Mr Feasey that his horse had been stolen, and arrested the two defendants in the evening from information received. White said they they had taken the horse and the wagonette to see if they could get some money by letting it out for him. They had received 1s, for taking a woman from Warwick to Kenilworth, and 3d. for taking another woman a ride. - Mulrain stated that he had taken the horse and wagonette back to Mr. Feasey. - Mr. Feasey said the horse came back about 4.45 with his harness on, and he believed it had been left on Milverton Hill to find the way home the best way it could. - Defendants pleaded guilty. - The Chief-Constable said the defendants were very bad boys, and had been summoned before for various offences. - The Bench decided to give them one more chance, Mulrain would receive six strokes and White ten. | |
| 26 September 1891 There is a report of the crime in the Leamington Spa Courier Saturday 26 September 1891 p.4 col.5: TEMPTER AND TEMPTED. - At a sitting of the Borough Magistrates, yesterday (Friday) morning, before Aldermen Wackrill and Edlmann, and Mr Spraggett, two lads, Percy White, 11, Woodbine Cottages, Woodbine-street, and Arthur Collins, St. Luke's-place, Augusta-place, were charged with stealing two pairs of gloves, of the value of 3s., the property of George William Randell, milliner and fancy draper, 38, Regent-street, on the 23rd inst. - Mary Jane Randell, the wife of the prosecutor, stated that, on Wednesday night, White came into the shop and asked her if she had missed a pair of gloves from off the gas bracket. On her replying in the affirmative, he said he knew the boy who had taken them. She sent her servant with him to be shown the house where the boy lived, but the lad was not in. - Clara White, a domestic servant employed in Union-road, Milverton, said that on Tuesday morning, her brother, Percy White, brought her the two pairs of gloves produced, which he said a girl had sent her. - P.C. Page stated that, at 8-30 p.m., on Wednesday, Collins came to him in Warwick-street, and told him that, at the request of another and older boy, named White, he had entered the prosecutor's shop, and had taken two pairs of gloves, which he gave to White. Collins pointed out to him White, who was standing near a shop window a little further along the street. Witness questioned White on the matter, and the lad admitted that he had given the gloves to his sister. At the Police-station, Collins repeated the statement which he made to witness, and added that, after the theft, White accompanied him to several other shops, and, at his solicitation, stole such things as fruit, sweets. &c. - The Chief-constable said White had been once previously before the Bench, and had received 10 strokes with the birch rod for stealing a horse and waggonette in August last. Collins had not been in trouble before. - Mrs White said her boy was incorrigible, and she wished him to be sent to a Reformatory. - The Chief-constable said another of Mrs White's sons had just been released from a Reformatory, and was doing well. - The Bench discharged Collins, as they believed he was under the influence of the other lad, and sent White to Warwick gaol for 10 days, and from there to a Reformatory for five years. | |
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9 February 1892 The Reformatory Committee Log Book report notes: On the 3rd of October we admitted a Leamington boy from Warwick Prison. At the end of the quarter the customary account for maintenance was rendered, as is the case for every other boy in the School. The officials of the borough returned the account with the statement that they had no funds at their disposal for such a purpose as the maintenance of children in reformatories. We replied that the claim was perfectly legitimate and unless they would undertake to contribute we should apply for the boy's discharge. The Leamington authorities refusing to comply with our request, the Home Secretary has given us his authority to discharge the boy. |
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| 22 February 1892 Discharged early from Saltey by order of the Home Secretary on account of ill-health | |