Saltley Reformatory Inmates


William Dingley

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No. in Admissions Register: 370
Date of admission: 26 December 1867
Whence received: Stafford County Prison
By whom brought: -
On what terms: -
Friends interested in him: -
Description:  
Height: -
Figure: -
Complexion: Fresh
Hair colour: Brown
Eyes colour: Hazel
Perfect vision? -
State of health: Good
Able-bodied? Yes
Sound intellect? Yes
Use of all limbs? Yes
Had cow or small pox? Cowpox
Particular marks: Mole on right shoulder
Cutaneous disorder? No
Scrofulous or consumptive? No
Subject to fits? No
Age last birthday: 15
Illegitimate? -
Birthday: -
Birth place: -
Has resided: Birmingham
Parish he belongs to: Birmingham
Customary work and mode of life: -
Schools attended: -
By whom and where employed: -
State of education:  
Reads: Not at all
Writes: Not at all
Cyphers: -
General ability: -
Offence: Stealing boots
Circumstances which may have led to it: Bad company
Date of sentence: 26 November 1867
Where convicted: Wednesbury
Who prosecuted: -
Where imprisoned: -
Sentence: 1 month prison, 2 years at Saltley
Previous committals and convictions: Not known
Father's name: Said to be dead
Occupation: -
Residence: -
Mother's name: Said to be dead
Occupation: -
Residence: -
Father's character: -
Mother's character: -
Parents dead? -
Survivor married again? -
Parents' treatment of child: -
Character of parents -
Parents' wages: -
Amount parents agree to pay: -
Superintendent of police (to collect payments): -
Relatives to communicate with: -
Person making this return: -
Estimate of character on admission: -
Character on discharge: -
When and how left the Reformatory: -

Notes:

27 November 1867 There is a report of the crime in the Birmingham Daily Gazette Wednesday 27 November 1867 p.8 col.3: ROBBING A SCHOOLMASTER.- At the Wednesbury Petty Sessions, yesterday, before Mr. T. Jesson and Mr, J. Marshall, a boy, 15 years old, named William Dingley, was charged with stealing two pairs of boots from the house of his master, Mr. T. Cochrane Lowe, schoolmaster, Soho Hill, Handsworth. The prisoner was in the employ of the prosecutor, and on the 14th instant he absconded, taking with him the boots and other articles. The police were communicated with, and the prisoner was apprehended at Erdington Workhouse. He was sentenced to one month's imprisonment, and at the end of that time ordered to be sent to a reformatory school for two years.

22 July 1869 Emigrated to Canada in the Austrian

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