Thomas Miller - Saltley Reformatory Inmate
| No. in Admissions Register: | 1258 |
| Age: | 13 years 2 months (born 3 April 1887) |
| Whence received: | Burton on Trent Petty Sessions |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | brown |
| Eyes colour: | Grey, full and weak |
| Height: | 4 ft 8½ ins |
| Particular marks: | faint + [cross] right forearm; small scar left sideof head |
| State of health: | Fair |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Date of admission: | 1 February 1901 |
| Late residence: | house 1 branch 2 Wellington Street, Burton on Trent |
| Parish he belongs to: | - |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Schoolboy |
| Whether illegitimate: | No |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly, Standard 3 |
| Writes: | Imperfectly, Standard 3 |
| Offence: | Larceny |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Lack of parental control |
| Date of sentence, by whom and court: | 18 January 1901; J R Morris and G Blackhall; Burton on Trent |
| Where imprisoned: | - |
| Sentence: | 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | 2 |
| Length: | 1) (1899) birched; 2) (1900) birched |
| For what: | 1) Larceny; 2) larceny |
| Father's name: | Thomas Miller |
| Occupation: | Tool maker |
| Mother's name: | Ann Miller |
| Occupation: | Charwoman |
| Parents dead? | Neither |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | - |
| Character of parents | Good |
| Parents' wages: | - |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | - |
| Parents address: | 1 house 2 branch Wellington Street, Burton on Trent |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | Superintendent Hicklin, Burton on Trent |
| Person making this return: | - |
| Notes: | |
| 24 January 1901 The crime that sent him to Saltley was reported in the Burton Chronicle Thursday 24 January 1901 p.7 col.1: SENT TO A REFORMATORY. - Thos. Stroud, an old offender, of 7 house, No.2 Branch, Wellington Street, John Bishop, a schoolboy, of Princess Street, and Thomas Millar [surname spelled thus], errand boy, of Wellington Street, were charged with stealing a box of briar pipes, valued at 6s., the property of Edith Corton, tobacconist, of Derby Street. - Prosecutrix said the stolen articles were in a cardboard box in her shop at twenty minutes past eight on Tuesday night, but whilst she was away a few minutes they had disappeared. She did not see the prisoners about. - Elizabeth Gopsall, wife of William Charles Gopsall, of Wellington Street, said she searched the house in consequence of what had been communicated by the police, and found the pipes, with a box of cigarettes, in the coalhouse. - Police-constable Bennett said he arrested the prisoners on Wednesday, and found the briar pipes on the prisoner Stroud. He charged the prisoners jointly with the theft, and Stroud said: "Yes, Millar and I went into the shop while Bishop watched outside and received the case." Bishop afterwards showed the constable where the case was, down the Rifleman Inn yard, and said there were but five pipes in the case and not six. - All three boys having been previously convicted the magistrates decided to send them to a truant school for five years. | |
| 8 December 1903 The Register of Boys on Licence records that Miller was licensed to go out and work for Mr Clarke, Stoney Stanton Road, Coventry | |
| March 1904 The Register of Boys on Licence records that Miller was re-licensed to go out and work for Mr Lynham, tailor, Brent Knoll, Somerset | |
| 10 March 1904 Absconded from his employer in Brent Knoll | |
| December 1904 The Incidental Returns Book reports that: T Miller, reported as an absconder, has been in regular employment and the managers have decided to allow him to remain on licence | |
| [date illegible] The Register of Boys on Licence records that Miller was re-licensed to go out and work for Mr Mills, Newton Road, Burton on Trent | |
| 31 January 1906 Sentence expired whilst on licence, discharged from Saltley | |