Thomas Newell - Saltley Reformatory Inmate
| No. in Admissions Register: | 328 |
| Date of admission: | 5 February 1866 |
| Whence received: | Stafford |
| By whom brought: | - |
| On what terms: | - |
| Friends interested in him: | - |
| Description: | |
| Height: | - |
| Figure: | - |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Brown |
| Eyes colour: | Hazel |
| Perfect vision? | - |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Sound intellect? | Yes |
| Use of all limbs? | Yes |
| Had cow or small pox? | Smallpox |
| Particular marks: | Warts near right ankle |
| Cutaneous disorder? | No |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | Yes |
| Subject to fits? | Not |
| Age last birthday: | 12 |
| Illegitimate? | No |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | - |
| Has resided: | Wolverhampton |
| Parish he belongs to: | - |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Chainmaking |
| Schools attended: | - |
| By whom and where employed: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Not at all |
| Writes: | Not at all |
| Cyphers: | - |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | Stealing oranges |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Bad company |
| Date of sentence: | 4 January 1866 |
| Where convicted: | Wolverhampton Petty Sessions before J J Powell |
| Who prosecuted: | - |
| Where imprisoned: | - |
| Sentence: | 1 month prison, 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals and convictions: | One |
| Father's name: | John Newell |
| Occupation: | Stoker at gas works |
| Residence: | Little lane, Stafford Street, Wolverhampton |
| Mother's name: | [Mary Newell] |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | - |
| Father's character: | Not very good. Health good. |
| Mother's character: | Not very good. Health good. |
| Parents dead? | - |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Good |
| Character of parents | - |
| Parents' wages: | - |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | 3d per week |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | Captain Segram |
| Relatives to communicate with: | - |
| Person making this return: | - |
| Estimate of character on admission: | - |
| Character on discharge: | - |
| When and how left the Reformatory: | - |
Notes:
| Brother of John Newell boy 326 |
| 20 January 1866 There is a report of the crime in the Staffordshire Advertiser Saturday 20 January 1866 p.7 col.6: JUVENILE DISHONESTY. - John Newell and Thomas Morris, both under twelve years of age, were convicted of stealing a small quantity of tobacco from the shop of Mr Hill, in Walsall Street. From enquiries made by the Bench it appeared that the boys had had whatever "good manners" they at one time possessed corrupted by "evil communications," and to remove them from such corrupting influences the Bench directed they should pass five years in Saltley Reformatory, after having served fourteen days' imprisonment. |