Saltley Reformatory Inmates


John Newell

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No. in Admissions Register: 326
Date of admission: 29 January 1866
Whence received: Stafford
By whom brought: -
On what terms: -
Friends interested in him: -
Description:  
Height: -
Figure: -
Complexion: -
Hair colour: -
Eyes colour: -
Perfect vision? -
State of health: -
Able-bodied? -
Sound intellect? -
Use of all limbs? -
Had cow or small pox? -
Particular marks: -
Cutaneous disorder? -
Scrofulous or consumptive? -
Subject to fits? -
Age last birthday: 12
Illegitimate? -
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 tobacco
Circumstances which may have led to it: Bad company
Date of sentence: 15 January 1866
Where convicted: Wolverhampton before J C Smith and W Hicklin
Who prosecuted: -
Where imprisoned: -
Sentence: 14 days prison, 5 years at Saltley
Previous committals and convictions: Stealing money (10 days and whipping)
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: -
Mother's character: -
Parents dead? -
Survivor married again? -
Parents' treatment of child: Good
Character of parents Not very good. Health good
Parents' wages: -
Amount parents agree to pay: 3d per week
Superintendent of police (to collect payments): Captain Segram, Wolverhampton
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 Thomas, boy 328. To see his record click here ]

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.

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