Harry Cave - Saltley Reformatory Inmate
| No. in Admissions Register: | 1213 |
| Age: | 14 years 10 months (born 26 December 1885) |
| Whence received: | Market Bosworth Petty Sessions |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Dark brown |
| Eyes colour: | Mottled grey |
| Height: | 4 ft 8½ ins |
| Particular marks: | 4 dots left forearm; scar left side of head |
| State of health: | - |
| Able-bodied? | - |
| Date of admission: | 27 October 1899 |
| Late residence: | Desford Industrial School, Leicestershire |
| Parish he belongs to: | - |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Inmate of an Industrial School |
| Whether illegitimate: | No |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | Imperfectly |
| Offence: | Absconding from an industrial school where he was liable to be detained after theft of clothing |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | - |
| Date of sentence, by whom and court: | 18 October 1899; Rev. Richard Titley; Market Bosworth Petty Sessions |
| Where imprisoned: | |
| Sentence: | 4 years 2 months [until age of 19] at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | 2 |
| Length: | 1) (May 1898) -; 2) (July 1898) - |
| For what: | 1) Larceny; 2) Larceny |
| Father's name: | Arthur Cave |
| Occupation: | Shoe hand |
| Mother's name: | Emma Cave |
| Occupation: | Housewife |
| Parents dead? | Neither |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | - |
| Character of parents | Good |
| Parents' wages: | - |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | - |
| Parents address: | 33 Mansfield Street, Leicester |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | - |
| Person making this return: | W Sillcock, Superintendent of Police, Hinckley |
| Notes: | |
| 30 July 1898 A previous offence was reported in the Leicester Chronicle Saturday 30 July 1898 p.6 col.3: SLEEPING OUT. - Harry Cave, shoehand (13), Mansfield-street, was summoned for sleeping in a garden in front of 64, Rutland-street, at 12.50 a.m., on July 25. - The Mayor advised the father of the boy to try and get him some work, and discharged the youth. | |
| 15 April 1902 The Register of Boys on Licence records that Cave was licensed to go out and work for Mr Summerland, Oadby, Leicestershire | |
| March 1903 The Register of Boys on Licence records that Cave was now in the Leicestershire Regiment | |
| 16 December 1903 Sentence expired whilst out on licence [in the Army], formally discharged from Saltley | |
| 9 February 1903 The Reformatory Committee Log Book report records receipt of a letter from Cave, Guernsey | |
| 12 April 1904 The Log Book report records receipt of a letter from Cave, Guernsey | |
| 9 August 1904 The Log Book report records receipt of a letter from Cave, Guernsey | |