Herbert Salt - Saltley Reformatory Inmate
| No. in Admissions Register: | 787 |
| Age: | 15 |
| Whence received: | H M Prison Stafford |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Brown |
| Eyes colour: | Blue |
| Visage: | |
| Particular marks: | Pockmarked |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Slender |
| Date of admission: | 20 November 1885 |
| Late residence: | 26 Brown Street, Hanley |
| Parish he belongs to: | Brereton, Cheshire |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Labourer |
| Whether illegitimate: | Mo |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | Imperfectly |
| Offence: | Stealing 3 jackets etc |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Bad company |
| Date of sentence, by whom and court: | 20th October 1885; John B Brindley; General Quarter Sessions, Hanley |
| Where imprisoned: | H M Prison Stafford |
| Sentence: | 30 days in prison, 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | 1 |
| Length: | 1 month in prison |
| For what: | Fraudulently obtaining a donkey |
| Father's name: | Joseph Salt |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Mother's name: | Elizabeth Salt |
| Occupation: | - |
| Parents dead? | No |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Well treated |
| Character of parents | Honest, sober, good health |
| Parents' wages: | 12s per week |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | States he is unable to pay |
| Parents address: | 26 Brown Street, Hanley |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | Herbert Windle, Hanley |
| Person making this return: | - |
| Notes: | |
| 27 January 1885 A previous offence is reported in the Birmingham Daily Post Tuesday 27 January 1885 p.8 col.4: IMPUDENT FRAUD BY LADS. - At the Borough Police Court [Hanley], yesterday, .Josiah Dale (19) and Herbert Salt (15) were charged with having obtained a donkey by false pretences from William Yardley, coal dealer and milk seller, Sydney Street. - On behalf of the prosecution it was stated that Yardley had been in the habit of lending his donkey to another milk seller, named Nicklin, whose son had on several occasions taken the prisoner Salt with him when going to fetch the donkey. On the 22nd instant, without the knowledge of Nicklin, Salt went to the prosecutor, and said that Mrs. Nicklin wished to borrow the donkey to fetch a load of coal, and also to go to the farm for milk. The animal was lent to Salt, who subsequently went with the elder prisoner to a horse dealer named Wilshaw. They represented that they had been sent by Mrs. Nicklin, who had "got into a bit of a mess through selling bad milk," and wished to sell the donkey "to raise a few shillings towards the fine." At the request of Wilshaw the lads went with him to the house of a policeman, but they failed to see the officer, and the story told by the boys being so plausible Wilshaw was induced to :purchase the donkey for 7s. and the lads gave him a receipt for the money. On being arrested at a lodging-house by Detective-sergeant Dennis, the prisoners at once admitted the offence. - They were committed for trial at the Assizes. | |
| 20 November 1885 Medical Officer reports: Scabies. By 24 November nearly well | |
| 23 July 1886 Absconded with William Clay [boy 728] | |
| 14 September 1886 The Reformatory Committee Log Book reported him as still at large | |
| 20 September 1887 The Log book records that since the previous report (12 July) Salt had been readmitted to the Reformatory from his absconding | |
| 14 March 1889 Formally discharged from Saltley by order of the Home Secretary, on account of emigrating to Canada, along with Spooner [boy 804] and Fowler [boy 857] | |