Albert Bullock - Saltley Reformatory Inmate
| No. in Admissions Register: | 1187 |
| Age: | 12 (born 22 December 1885) |
| Whence received: | Newcastle under Lyme Petty Sessions |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | Fresh/pale |
| Hair colour: | Dark brown |
| Eyes colour: | Mottled grey |
| Height: | 4 ft 6½ ins |
| Particular marks: | A mole on left arm |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Date of admission: | 24 October 1898 |
| Late residence: | Garden Street, Newcastle under Lyme |
| Parish he belongs to: | - |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Schoolboy |
| Whether illegitimate: | No |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | Imperfectly |
| Offence: | Stealing a quantity of beer and apples |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Bad home surrounding and influences. Father sent to prison for receiving stolen goods. |
| Date of sentence, by whom and court: | 20 October 1898; C H Hardiman and R C Trigger; Newcastle under Lyme |
| Where imprisoned: | Not |
| Sentence: | 4 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | - |
| Length: | - |
| For what: | - |
| Father's name: | Alfred Bullock |
| Occupation: | Blacksmith |
| Mother's name: | Ellen Bullock |
| Occupation: | - |
| Parents dead? | Neither |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Not good - boy appears wild |
| Character of parents | Not good - father idle and drunken |
| Parents' wages: | - |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | - |
| Parents address: | Garden Street, Newcastle under Lyme |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | - |
| Person making this return: | James Stirling, Chief Constable |
| Notes: | |
| 22 October 1898 There is a lengthy report of the crime, also involving his father and a Syney Bullock, probably his brother, in the Staffordshire Advertiser Saturday 22 October 1898 p.7 col.3: JUVENILE DEPREDATORS AND A RECEIVER. - Albert Bullock, 13, Anthony Downey, 15, and William Farley, 15, were charged on remand from Monday with feloniously breaking into the shop of William Eardley, butcher, Penkhull-street, between Saturday night and Sunday morning, and stealing therefrom 9lb. of beef and a quantity of pork, of the value of 10s 6d. The premises had been entered by a pane being removed from a back window and the fastening undone. Two pieces of the pork were afterwards found in a cupboard at Bullock's house, and the beef was in a rabbit pen at Farley's house. The lads, on being arrested, made recriminating statements. A charge against the defendants of stealing two live pigeons from a cote on the premises of the King's Head Inn on the same night, was not proceeded with, but there was a further charge against them, and Albert Barrar, 15, Matthew Rogers, 15, and Sidney Bullock, 10, of having stolen from a shed at the King's Head Inn, also on the same night a quantity of apples, value 5s, the property of William Keen, market gardener, Blakenhall. Evidence of the theft was given by a lad named Sydney Batt, who had been originally accused of complicity in the offence. On being charged by Sergt. Dockery, the lads admitted their guilt. The charge of shop-breaking was reduced to one of theft, and Farley, who was stated to be the ringleader, was committed to gaol for a month. Albert Bullock, Downey and Rogers were ordered to be sent to a reformatory for four years, Barrar was ordered to receive ten strokes with the birch, and Sidney Bullock was discharged. - Alfred Bullock, blacksmith, Garden-street was then charged with feloniously receiving, on Sunday, two legs of pork, value 11s., the property of William Eardley, knowing them to have been stolen. Mr. Sproston defended. Sergt. Dockery stated that on searching the defendant's house he found the pork, the subject of the charge in the first case, in the cupboard. The defendant in reply to questions, said he had bought the pork, but afterwards admitted that he had not bought it, and that it was there when he got up that morning. On being charged, he said that his son had told him that he found the pork wrapped up in a piece of paper in the "slums," on which he told him to take it off, as it belonged to somebody else. Cross-examined: When Albert Bullock was charged he said that his ran at him to strike him, and told him to take the meat away. The Chief Constable called William Farley, the youth who had been convicted in the previous case. He said he went with Albert Bullock to the defendant's house, taking the pork with them. The defendant asked his son if anyone had seen them, and he replied no. The defendant said he would go out, as there would be a row. The defendant gave evidence in his own behalf, and said that when his son told him he had found the pork he ran at him to chastise him, and told him to take it away. Mr. Sproston contended that the evidence was not strong enough to warrant a conviction. The defendant, who was stated by the police to be an idle drunken person, was committed to gaol for a month with hard labour. | |
| 3 December 1901 The Register of Boys on Licence records that Bullock was licensed to go out and work for the Manager, Rutton Iron Works, Stoke on Trent | |
| 1 January 1902 The Register of Boys on Licence records that Bullock was re-licensed to go out and work for Silverdale Ironworks, Newcastle under Lyme | |
| 18 May 1902 The Register of Boys on Licence records that Bullock was re-licensed to go out and work for Mr Derrincourt, Amington, Tamworth | |
| 18 October 1902 Sentence expired whilst out on licence, discharged from Saltley | |