Joseph George Stacey - Saltley Reformatory Inmate
| No. in Admissions Register: | 1141 |
| Age: | 14 (born 29 May 1892) |
| Whence received: | H M Prison Cardiff |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Dark brown |
| Eyes colour: | Blue mottled |
| Height: | 4 ft 11½ ins |
| Particular marks: | Scar top head, left side |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Date of admission: | 10 October 1896 |
| Late residence: | 30 Plasnewydd Place, Cardiff |
| Parish he belongs to: | - |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Errand boy |
| Whether illegitimate: | No |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly, Standard 3 |
| Writes: | Imperfectly, Standard 3 |
| Offence: | Stealing a bicycle lamp |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | - |
| Date of sentence, by whom and court: | 28 September 1896; F J Beavan and F J Jotham; Cardiff Petty Sessions |
| Where imprisoned: | H M Prison Cardiff |
| Sentence: | 14 days in prison, 3 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | 1 |
| Length: | 14 days |
| For what: | Stealing money |
| Father's name: | Frederick Stacey |
| Occupation: | Manager for the Cardiff Milk Supply Co |
| Mother's name: | Martha Price Stacey |
| Occupation: | Housewife |
| Parents dead? | Neither |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Boy says that his father was unkind to him |
| Character of parents | Good |
| Parents' wages: | Not stated |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | Not assessed |
| Parents address: | 30 Plasnewydd Place, Cardiff |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | - |
| Person making this return: | D Rees, Town Clerk |
| Notes: | |
| 12 September 1896 A previous offence was reported in the Cardiff Times Saturday 12 September 1896 p.4 col.7: BOYS ON THE WRONG TRACK. Alleged Highway Robbers at Cardiff. At a special Police Court held yesterday - before Mr John Duncan - at the Llandaff magistrates' clerk's office, Cardiff, three lads, named Joseph George Stacey (15), Edward Morinan (10), and Francis Brown (10), all living in the neighbourhood of Roath Park, were brought up in custody by P.S. Green, of Maindee, charged with having at 10 o'clock on Thursday morning committed highway robbery with violence from a lad named Lewis John Watkins. From the evidence of Watkins it appeared that he had been to the barracks, and on his return he met five boys on the Gabalfa road near the new houses. He (witness) was carrying a spring balance and two baskets. The lad Morinan tried to snatch the spring balance from him, but failed; and thereupon Brown came up and shoved a cap into witness's mouth, at the same time inserting his hand in witness's jacket pocket, which was empty. Stacey then put his hand in witness's right hand jacket pocket and took therefrom a purse containing 9d in coppers and 3d in silver. The three prisoners then ran away, but two men who arrived on the scene gave chase and caught them. P.S. Green said he arrested the lads on the previous evening. He found that Stacey had not been home since Sunday, while Brown and Morinan had been missing from their parents' homes since Monday. The lads were all respectably connected. They were remanded in custody until Monday next. The sentencing was reported in the next issue of the Cardiff Times Saturday 19 September 1896 p.3 col.3, in which Stacey was fined £1 and costs, and the other 2 were given 6 strokes from a birch rod | |
| 29 September 1896 The crime that sent him to Saltley was reported in the South Wales Daily News Tuesday 29 September 1896 p.6 col.6: BAD BEGINNING. Edward Morion (10) and George Stacey (14) [first name given thus], two respectably-attired boys, were placed in the dock at Cardiff Police Court on Monday charged with stealing a bicycle lamp, the property of William Charles Menor, outside No. 62, Angus-street, on the 9th inst. Prosecutor, it was stated, left his bicycle in the street while he went into the house, but on returning found the lamp missing and gave information to the police, who speedily effected the prisoners' arrest. It appeared that the boys had been sleeping out, and their excuse for taking the lamp was that they required a light for the purpose of finding a suitable place. Sergt. Frederick Butler said that Stacey had only just come out of gaol after serving a fortnight for highway robbery with violence at Llandaff, a case in which the other boy was also implicated, and for which he got six strokes with the birch. The robbery he spoke of was the stealing of 1s from another boy by force. Councillor Beavan said that it was one of the most painful cases he had heard of, and added that the Bench had decided to send Stacey to gaol for 14 days and two years in a reformatory, while Morion would receive six strokes with the birch. | |
| 21 January 1897 Discharged from Saltley by order of the Home Secretary on account of their being an illegality in his commitment | |