Tom Bullock - Saltley Reformatory Inmate
| No. in Admissions Register: | 932 |
| Age: | 10 years 1 month |
| Whence received: | H M Prison Wakefield |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Brown |
| Eyes colour: | Grey |
| Height: | 4 ft 2¼ |
| Particular marks: | None |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Date of admission: | 11 October 1889 |
| Late residence: | Albert Street, Castleford, West Yorkshire |
| Parish he belongs to: | Pontefract |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Schoolboy |
| Whether illegitimate: | No |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly, Standard 2 |
| Writes: | Imperfectly, Standard 2 |
| Offence: | Stealing a purse and 10s 3d from the person of a female in a chapel |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Bad associates |
| Date of sentence, by whom and court: | 29 September 1889; W F Tempest; West Riding Police Court, Pontefract |
| Where imprisoned: | H M Prison Wakefield |
| Sentence: | 14 days in prison, 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | 2 |
| Length: | 1) Fined 10s, father bound over in £5 to produce him; 2) 6 strokes, father bound over |
| For what: | 1) Stealing 10s from a little girl in the street; 2) stealing 7s 6d from a little boy in the street |
| Father's name: | Joseph Bullock |
| Occupation: | Colliery labourer |
| Mother's name: | Mary Bullock |
| Occupation: | - |
| Parents dead? | Neither |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Apparently good |
| Character of parents | Not reported |
| Parents' wages: | 18s per week |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | Not assessed |
| Parents address: | Albert Street, Castleford, West Yorkshire |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | - |
| Person making this return: | - |
| Notes: | |
| 31 August 1889 There is a report of a previous offence in the Leeds Times Saturday 31 August 1889 p.5 col.4: WAKEFIELD. - On Monday afternoon, at the West Riding Police Court, Wakefield, Tom Bullock, a little lad nine years of age, living at Castleford, pleaded guilty to stealing a purse and 7s. 10d. in money, the property of John Henry Poole, of West Riding-terrace, Normanton Common. On Saturday afternoon a little boy was sent by his brother to Messrs. Briggs & Co.'s colliery offices to fetch his brother's wages. He placed the money and the pay-ticket in a purse and put it in one of his jacket pockets. The prisoner in passing the lad snatched the purse out of his pocket, ran off with it, and concealed the money under a stone at Castleford. He was ordered to have six strokes with a birch rod. | |
| 30 September 1889 The crime that sent him to Saltley was reported in the Yorkshire Evening Press Monday 30 September 1889 p.3 col.1: A YOUNG PICKPOCKET AT CASTLEFORD. - On Saturday, at Pontefract, a boy named Thomas Bullock (10 years), whose parents reside at Castleford, was sent to prison for two weeks and five five years to reformatory for stealing a purse and and 10s. 6d. in money, the property of Mrs. Ann Clarkson, on the Sunday previous. The prosecutrix was proceeding to chapel, and on arrival there missed her purse end money. Police-Sergeant Wilson accosted the boy, who took him to an embankment, gave him the purse and 10s., and a further 18s., the proceeds of other robberies. The boy, though young, had been twice before convicted at Pontefract. | |
| 22 May 1893 The Register of Boys on Licence records that Bullock was licensed to work for James Lumb & Co, Castleford | |
| 10 October 1894 Sentence expired whilst out on licence, discharged from Saltley | |
Adam Smith - Saltley Reformatory Inmate
| No. in Admissions Register: | 1188 |
| Age: | 15 (born 16 July 1883) |
| Whence received: | H M Prison Lincoln |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Brown |
| Eyes colour: | Blue |
| Height: | 5 ft 3¾ ins |
| Particular marks: | Scar left shoulder (front) |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Date of admission: | 25 October 1898 |
| Late residence: | Northgate Street, Oakham |
| Parish he belongs to: | Oakham |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Farm labourer and butcher's boy |
| Whether illegitimate: | No |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | Imperfectly |
| Offence: | Wilfully killing a lamb |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | A rough careless disposition |
| Date of sentence, by whom and court: | 20 October 1898; Sir A J Hodges; Rutland County Sessions |
| Where imprisoned: | H M Prison Leicester |
| Sentence: | 7 days in prison, 3 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | 2 |
| Length: | - |
| For what: | 1) Stealing pigeons; 2) stealing pies |
| Father's name: | Eli Smith |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Mother's name: | Jane Smith |
| Occupation: | Housewife |
| Parents dead? | Neither |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Kindly |
| Character of parents | Nothing known |
| Parents' wages: | 15s weekly |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | - |
| Parents address: | Northgate Street, Oakham |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | - |
| Person making this return: | Governor, H M Prison Leicester |
| Notes: | |
| 6 November 1896 A previous offence was briefly reported in the Stamford Mercury Friday 6 November 1896 p.7 col.5: STEALING RINGDOVES. - Adam Smith and Francis Rawlings, boys, for stealing two ringdoves at Oakham, the properly of Mr. Hughes, were ordered to pay 5s. each. | |
| 5 March 1897 Another previous offence was briefly reported in the Stamford Mercury Friday 5 March 1897 p.4 col.8: THEFT OF PORK PIE. - Adam Smith, a boy living at Oakham, was charged with stealing a pork pie, value 1s. 4d., the property of Alfred Beaver, pork butcher, at Oakham, on the 9th. Jan. Accused pleaded guilty, and having been convicted in November last of larceny, was sentenced to receive ten strokes with the birch rod. | |
| 15 October 1898 The crime that sent him to Saltley was reported at the remand stage in the Grantham Journal Saturday 15 October 1898 p.2 col.1: SINGULAR CHARGE AGAINST A YOUTH. - At Oakham, On Saturday, before the Right Hon. G. J. Noel, Adam Smith (15), labourer, Oakham, was brought up in custody charged that "on the 27th day of September, at Burley-on-the-Hill, he did feloniously kill a certain animal, to wit, a lamb, of the value of 16s., the property of George Bland Herring, with intent feloniously to steal the carcase of the said lamb." Prosecutor who is a farmer living at Burley, said on the day named he missed a lamb from Burley Park. It was what was called a "cuckoo lamb," and was lambed the latter end of May or the beginning of June last, and was the only lamb of the kind in Burley Park. On Friday morning, the 30th September, he saw a lamb skin, with the head and forequarters in it, which he identified as belonging to the lamb he had lost. The lamb had been stuck through the neck, and had bled from the wounds, the blood running down the breast, and was on the skin, plainly showing that the lamb was alive at the time it was stuck. When he last saw the lamb alive, it was quite healthy and strong. The skin now produced was the same skin seen by him on the 30th ult., and belonged to the lamb he had lost. He valued the lamb at 16s. - William Henry Tomblin, waggoner, Burley, in the employ of G. H. Finch, Esq., said the accused was also in Mr. Finch's service, and worked at the engine-house. He worked the horse there and used to pump water to the Hall. On Wednesday, the 28th ult., at the engine-house, he asked the accused for the key of the reservoir, and he replied he had left it at home. Witness wanted the key to open the reservoir for the purpose of inspecting it. The reservoir was afterwards opened by unscrewing a nut, and as soon as the door of the reservoir was opened he saw a lamb-skin, which a man pulled out and threw outside the engine-house. Witness then noticed part of the carcase of a lamb, the two legs and part of the loin, hanging on two nails over the water in the reservoir, and he threw this outside. The same day, he found a butcher's slop in the pump-house where the accused used to work. Smith put it in his bag, and said it was his, but witness took it out again, and took it home. He said to the accused, "What was that sheep doing in the reservoir?" and he said, "That belongs to my uncle." Witness then said. "You had better come with me to Mr. Copley's," and accused walked a little way in front him, and then ran off, and he had not seen him until that day. The skin now produced was the one found in the reservoir. - P.c. Woolley, of Greetham, said on the day in question, in consequence of certain information previously received, he proceeded to Burley, and in the yard of the engine- house in Burley Park he found the skin, head, neck, and shoulders of a lamb. The lamb had been stuck through the neck, and there were signs that it had bled. Witness received at the same time a butcher's knife from the wife of the previous witness. On the 8th October, in consequence of further information, he again proceeded to Burley, and found at the fence of the reservoir of the engine-house a leg, and the back of a lamb, which, with the parts he found on the previous occasion, made the lamb complete, with the exception of one leg; but most of the flesh was cut off the parts he found on the 8th. He now produced the skin and parts of the lamb, and also the butcher's knife. - P.c. Huggins said on the 7th inst., in accordance with orders received from the Chief Constable, he proceeded to Leicester County Police-station, and there found the prisoner in custody on this charge. He duly cautioned him, and charged him with the offence, when he said, "I will tell you the truth, I found the lamb dead in the Park on the Tuesday; I took it to the pump-house, and skinned it there, and laid the skin by the reservoir, and it might have slipped into the water. I took the knife from home, which I cut it up with. I hung the pieces I cut off up in the pump-house ready to take home next day." Witness afterwards brought the accused to Oakham Police-station. - On being asked whether he wished to make a statement prisoner said, "The lamb was dead when I found it, and I took it and skinned it near the pump-house." - He was committed to take his trial at the Quarter Sessions on Thursday next, and no bail being forthcoming, he was detained in custody.22 August 1899 Absconded from the Reformatory, recaptured and returned 26 August | |
| 24 October 1901 Sentence expired, discharged from Saltley. "One of our biggest boys" he requested to join the Army rather than return to Oakham, so enlisted in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers | |
| No. in Admissions Register: | 655 |
| Age: | 12 |
| Whence received: | H M Prison Stafford |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | Pale |
| Hair colour: | Brown |
| Eyes colour: | Hazel |
| Visage: | - |
| Particular marks: | None |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Date of admission: | 10 November 1880 |
| Late residence: | Darlaston |
| Parish he belongs to: | - |
| Customary work and mode of life: | None |
| Whether illegitimate: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Not at all |
| Writes: | Not at all |
| Offence: | Stealing a fowl |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | - |
| Date of sentence, by whom and court: | 8 October 1880; S loveridge and A G Twentyman; Bilston Court of Summary Jurisdiction |
| Where imprisoned: | H M Prison Stafford |
| Sentence: | 1 month hard labour in prison, 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | 2 |
| Length: | 1) 1 month in prison; 2) 3 months in prison and whipped |
| For what: | 1) stealing a knife; 2) Stealing clothing |
| Father's name: | Robert Davis |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Mother's name: | Elizabeth Davis |
| Occupation: | - |
| Parents dead? | Neither |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Good |
| Character of parents | Good, honest, sober, health good |
| Parents' wages: | 18s per week |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | The father does not propose to pay anything. I think he may pay 1s 6d per week |
| Parents address: | Robert Davis, Queen Street, Wednesbury |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | Richard Longden, Superintendent of Police, Bilston |
| Person making this return: | - |
Notes:
| 8 October 1881Placed in the cell for 6 hours, and had three meals of bread and water for stealing colours from another boy during the night |
Edward William Morley - Saltley Reformatory Inmate
| No. in Admissions Register: | 659 |
| Age: | 10 |
| Whence received: | Birmingham Borough Gaol |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Dark brown |
| Eyes colour: | brown |
| Visage: | - |
| Particular marks: | Scar above right eye |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Date of admission: | 11 January 1881 |
| Late residence: | 27 Hutton Street, Nechells, Birmingham |
| Parish he belongs to: | - |
| Customary work and mode of life: | - |
| Whether illegitimate: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | 3rd Standard |
| Writes: | 3rd Standard |
| Offence: | Stealing cigars and pipes |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Neglect of parents |
| Date of sentence, by whom and court: | 22 December 1880; J D Goodman and J T Collings; Aston Police Court |
| Where imprisoned: | - |
| Sentence: | 21 days in prison, 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | 2 - 1)28 April 1880; 2) 10 November 1880 |
| Length: | 1) 6 strokes with birch rod; 2) fined 5s |
| For what: | 1) Stealing coke; 2) stealing salmon |
| Father's name: | James Morley |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Mother's name: | Emily Louisa Morley |
| Occupation: | - |
| Parents dead? | No |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | - |
| Character of parents | Good |
| Parents' wages: | - |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | 2s per week |
| Parents address: | - |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | - |
| Person making this return: | - |
Notes:
| 6 April 1881 Indecent conduct in serving room. 4 ounces of bread for supper |
Joseph Wilkes - Saltley Reformatory Inmate
| No. in Admissions Register: | 606 |
| Age: | 13 |
| Whence received: | Birmingham Gaol |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Brown |
| Eyes colour: | Grey |
| Visage: | Oval |
| Particular marks: | - |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Date of admission: | 5 June 1878 |
| Late residence: | Norton Road, Middleham Place [Norton Street? Birmingham?] |
| Parish he belongs to: | Birmingham |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Filer |
| Whether illegitimate: | No |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Not at all |
| Writes: | Not at all |
| Offence: | Stealing the sum of 20s |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Not stated |
| Date of sentence, by whom and court: | 6 May 1878; G Goodrick and J Lowe; Birmingham |
| Where imprisoned: | H M Prison, Birmingham |
| Sentence: | 1 month in prison, 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | - |
| Length: | - |
| For what: | - |
| Father's name: | Joseph Wilkes |
| Occupation: | Copper kettle maker |
| Mother's name: | Ann Wilkes (stepmother) |
| Occupation: | - |
| Parents dead? | Mother |
| Survivor married again? | Yes |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Good |
| Character of parents | Good |
| Parents' wages: | Not known |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | - |
| Parents address: | Middleham Place, Norton Road |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | - |
| Person making this return: | D Meaden |
Notes:
| 10 April 1881 Received 6 strokes to the posterior for making other boys to become insubordinate. He is one of the three ring-leaders. The others are Martin [boy 616] and Robinson [boy 590] |
| 25 September 1882 Licensed to Mr Preece(?) 114 Cheapside, Birmingham |