John Stout - Saltley Reformatory Inmate
| No. in Admissions Register: | 569 |
| Age: | 10 |
| Whence received: | Birmingham Borough Prison |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | - |
| Hair colour: | - |
| Eyes colour: | - |
| Visage: | - |
| Particular marks: | - |
| State of health: | - |
| Able-bodied? | - |
| Date of admission and term: | 19 December 1876 5 years |
| Late residence: | 2 court 3 house Mark Lane, Pershore Street, Birmingham |
| Parish he belongs to: | - |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Stamper |
| Whether illegitimate: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | Imperfectly |
| Offence: | Stealing 2 pork pies |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | - |
| Date of sentence, by who and court: | 6 December 1876, Moor Street, T C S Kynnersley |
| Where imprisoned: | Winson Green, Birmingham |
| Sentence: | 14 days prison (hard labour), 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | - |
| Length: | - |
| For what: | - |
| Father's name: | John A Stout |
| Occupation: | Porter in Market |
| Mother's name: | - |
| Occupation: | - |
| Parents dead? | No |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Good |
| Character of parents | Good |
| Parents' wages: | 25s per week |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | - |
| Parents address: | 2 court 3 house Mark Lane, Pershore Street, Birmingham |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | - |
| Person making this return: | - |
| When and how left reformatory: | 18 Dec 1881 - discharged on expiration of term |
Notes:
| 7 December 1876 There is a brief report of the crime in the Birmingham Daily Post Thursday 7 December 1876 p.6 col.4: BEGINNING EARLY. - John Jennings, (12), New Inkleys, shoefinisher; Edward Garley (10), New Inkleys, shoefinisher; John Stout (10), Mark Lane, Pershore Street, stamper; and William Powell, New Inkleys, school boy, were charged with stealing two pork pies from the shop of. James Hunt, 26, Lodge Road. -Jennings and Powell were discharged, and the two other prisoners were sent to gaol for fourteen days and five years in a Reformatory. |
| March 1881 Writes to say that he is so busy that he has no time to call. Is prospering and has a good master, wishes to have his place renewed. |
| 27 May 1881 Letter which I wrote him 23rd, this day returned. The letter was addressed 161 Great Charles Street, Birmingham |
| 22 June 1881 Taken to Moor Street Police Court this morning on suspicion |
| 24 September 1881 Brought back to the school from his home |
| 18 December Sentence expires |
| 20 February 1882 Stout calls, is living in Smithfield Passage |
| 10 April 1882 Leaves the school this morning with two of the inmates for the purpose of embarking on board the Polynesian steam ship on the morrow, bound for Quebec |