Thomas Perks - Saltley Reformatory Inmate
| No. in Admissions Register: | 256 |
| Date of admission: | 23 May 1863 |
| 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? | Yes |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Sound intellect? | Yes |
| Use of all limbs? | Yes |
| Had cow or small pox? | Cowpox |
| Particular marks: | - |
| Cutaneous disorder? | Yes |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | No |
| Subject to fits? | No |
| Age last birthday: | 13 |
| Illegitimate? | - |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | - |
| Has resided: | At Bilston |
| Parish he belongs to: | Dudley |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Miner |
| Schools attended: | - |
| By whom and where employed: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Not at all |
| Writes: | Not at all |
| Cyphers: | - |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | Stealing a sovereign from his master |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Neglect of parents |
| Date of sentence: | 24 April 1863 |
| Where convicted: | Bilston, before A Sparrow and R Bagnall |
| Who prosecuted: | - |
| Where imprisoned: | Stafford |
| Sentence: | 1 month prison, 2 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals and convictions: | Not known |
| Father's name: | John Perks |
| Occupation: | Miner |
| Residence: | Not known |
| Mother's name: | Mary Jones Perks |
| Occupation: | |
| Residence: | Dudley |
| Father's character: | - |
| Mother's character: | - |
| Parents dead? | Neither as far as is known |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Neglected |
| Character of parents | Not known |
| Parents' wages: | Not known |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | Can't say |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | Hugh McCrea, Bilston |
| Relatives to communicate with: | - |
| Person making this return: | - |
| Estimate of character on admission: | - |
| Character on discharge: | - |
| When and how left the Reformatory: | - |
Notes:
| 25 April 1863 There is a short report of the crime in the Staffordshire Advertiser Saturday 25 April 1863 p.5 col.3: STEALING A SOVEREIGN.-At the police-court yesterday, before A. Sparrow and R. Bagnall, Esqrs., a lad named Thomas Perks was charged by John Humphries with stealing a sovereign. The lad was an apprentice to Humphries, and had taken the sovereign out of a drawer, changed it, spent 5s., replaced 11s., and given the remainder to some lad. As it appeared that he had offended in a similar manner on several previous occasions, he was sent to prison for a month, and then to be confined for two years in a reformatory. |
| 22 May 1865 Returned to his master, John Humphries, 78 Oxford Street, Bilston |
| January 1867 Doing well |
| March 1868 Doing well. At Bilston |