Job Arrowsuch - Saltley Reformatory Inmate
| No. in Admissions Register: | 1179 |
| Age: | 10 (born 2 March 1888) |
| Whence received: | Cannock |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Light brown |
| Eyes colour: | Grey |
| Height: | 4 ft 5½ ins |
| Particular marks: | 2 marks(?) back of right hand |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Date of admission: | 19 July 1898 |
| Late residence: | - |
| Parish he belongs to: | - |
| Customary work and mode of life: | - |
| Whether illegitimate: | No |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly, Standard 2 |
| Writes: | Imperfectly, Standard 2 |
| Offence: | Stealing 13s in money |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Police report - this boy is continually into mischief and leading other young boys into thieving |
| Date of sentence, by whom and court: | 18 July 1898; M Wolverson and J Williamson; Cannock Court of Summary Jurisdiction |
| Where imprisoned: | - |
| Sentence: | 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | 1 (4 July 1898) |
| Length: | 6 strokes of birch |
| For what: | Stealing eggs |
| Father's name: | Job Arrowsuch |
| Occupation: | Collier |
| Mother's name: | Rose Arrowsuch |
| Occupation: | - |
| Parents dead? | - |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | - |
| Character of parents | Both good |
| Parents' wages: | - |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | - |
| Parents address: | Cannock |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | - |
| Person making this return: | - |
| Notes: | |
| 9 July 1898 A previous offence was reported in the Cannock Chase Courier Saturday 9 July 1898 p.8 col.5: VERY BAD BOYS. Job Arrowsuch and Harry Brookes were charged with appropriating eggs the property of Mr Leonard Adams, at Cannock. - Two lads, Walter Adams, the son of the prosecutor. and George Pickerill, gave evidence, and the boys admitted the offence. - Inspector Burgess said the lad Brookes was a nuisance; be actually tried to sell the eggs. On the contrary his mother said he was a very good boy, and the Inspector suggested that she ought not to sympathise with them. The boy had had the birch on a previous occasion. - Mr Gardner told the boys that if they were not careful they would come to a bad end. - The mothers appeared to be very indignant that the Inspector spoke so strongly about the boys, but the Bench ordered the lads to receive six strokes of the birch delivered by the Inspector, who Mr Gilpin said appeared to have a tolerably strong arm. | |
| 22 July 1898 The crime that sent him to Saltley was reported in the Lichfield Mercury Friday 22 July 1898 p.8 col.7: SENT AWAY. - Job Arrowsuch (10), of Cannock, was charged with stealing 13s 11d and a bag belonging to Alfred Gibbs, grocer, Sheffield, Walsall Wood, on Saturday, the 9th inst. - Prosecutor has a stall in Cannock market and hung his jacket on the stall while he unloaded his goods. Prisoner and another boy assisted him in the latter operation, and prosecutor afterwards went his coat and took out a bag containing 14s in coppers, from which he gave the lads a penny and put the bag back into his pocket. He then went away to put his horse up and on coming back found the money was gone. - Inspector Burgess proved finding 9s 5½d hidden in a field at the back of a lodging-house at Cannock. - Prisoner, who was arrested by P.C. Weaver, admitted having put it there. It appeared he had spent the remainder of the money in a visit to Walsall. - Prisoner had been previously convicted and was sent to a reformatory for 5 years. | |
| 1 May 1901 The Register of Boys on Licence records that Arrowsuch was licensed to go out and work for Messers G W Lewis Ltd, Cannock. In July 1901 he is shown as working for Mr Lees, Leacroft Colliery, Cannock | |
| 17 July 1903 Sentence expired whilst out on licence, discharged from Saltley | |
| 9 August 1904 The Reformatory Committee Log Book report records receipt of a letter from Arrowsuch, Cannock | |