David Lockley - Saltley Reformatory Inmate
Image by permission of the Library of Birmingham. MS 244/4/1/3 Page 490.
| No. in Admissions Register: | 491 |
| Age: | 14 |
| Whence received: | Birmingham |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Brown |
| Eyes colour: | Grey |
| Visage: | - |
| Particular marks: | Scars on left eyebrow |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Date of admission and term: | 2 August 1873 5 years |
| Late residence: | 7 court William Street, Birmingham |
| Parish he belongs to: | Birmingham |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Filer |
| Whether illegitimate: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Not at all |
| Writes: | Not at all |
| Offence: | Stealing 8 pigeons |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | - |
| Date of sentence, by who and court: | 21 July 1873, Birmingham Police Court, T C S Kynnersley |
| Where imprisoned: | Birmingham |
| Sentence: | 14 days prison (hard labour), 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | One |
| Length: | 3 days and whipping |
| For what: | Stealing 3 pigeons |
| Father's name: | David Lockley |
| Occupation: | Horse dealer |
| Mother's name: | Rhoda Lockley |
| Occupation: | Press worker |
| Parents dead? | Not |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Good |
| Character of parents | - |
| Parents' wages: | Father uncertain; mother 13s or 14s per week |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | No sum mentioned |
| Parents address: | Father not known; mother 7 court William Street, Birmingham |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | - |
| Person making this return: | - |
Notes:
| 22 July 1873 There is a brief report of the crime in the Birmingham Daily Post Tuesday 22 July 1873 p.5 col.4: THE PIGEON-STEALING CASE. - William Yates (18), labourer, William Street, and David Lockley (14), also of William Street, were charged with stealing eight pigeons, of the value of £2., from the premises of Mr. Richardson, Belgrave Road, on the 22nd ult. Yates was sentenced to three months' imprisonment, and Lockley to fourteen days imprisonment and five years at a Reformatory. |
| 23 June 1881 Summerfield [boy 509] writes to J Black (tailor) to say that Lockley is anxious to enlist into Royal Artillery. I take the matter in hand and do all I can to assist Lockley |