Saltley Reformatory Inmates


William Cooper

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No. in Admissions Register: 373
Date of admission: 6 January 1868
Whence received: Stafford Gaol
By whom brought: -
On what terms: -
Friends interested in him: -
Description:  
Height: -
Figure: -
Complexion: Fresh
Hair colour: Brown
Eyes colour: Brown
Perfect vision? Yes
State of health: Good
Able-bodied? Yes
Sound intellect? Yes
Use of all limbs? Yes
Had cow or small pox? Cowpox
Particular marks: -
Cutaneous disorder? No
Scrofulous or consumptive? No
Subject to fits? No
Age last birthday: 13
Illegitimate? -
Birthday: -
Birth place: -
Has resided: Tunstall
Parish he belongs to: -
Customary work and mode of life: -
Schools attended: -
By whom and where employed: -
State of education:  
Reads: A little
Writes: A little
Cyphers: -
General ability: -
Offence: Stealing clothing
Circumstances which may have led to it: -
Date of sentence: 5 December 1867
Where convicted: Tunstall before J E Davis
Who prosecuted: -
Where imprisoned: -
Sentence: 1 month prison (hard labour), 4 years at Saltley
Previous committals and convictions: None, but consorting with bad characters
Father's name: -
Occupation: -
Residence: -
Mother's name: Ann Cooper
Occupation: Potter
Residence: Henry Street, Tunstall
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:

[brother to James, boy 372 - to see his record click here ]

7 December 1867 There is a report of the crime in the Staffordshire Sentinel and Commercial and General Advertiser Saturday 7 December 1867 p.6 col.3: YOUNG HOUSEBREAKERS. - James Cooper, aged I 3, and William Cooper, aged 11, brothers, were charged with breaking and entering the dwelling-house of William Poole, potter, Tunstall, and stealing therefrom a pair of trousers, a waistcoat, petticoat, and other articles. On Wednesday the prosecutor and his wife left the house for a short time, and, on their return they found that somebody had been in. Proceeding upstairs, they discovered that the articles named had been stolen. Prisoners pledged the things the same day at a pawnshop, and were found the same night at the theatre. The elder boy ran away, but the younger one was at once taken. He acknowledged to the theft. The mother of the prisoners was called, and she said that she did not know anything of the matter; she was at work in a manufactory at the time; she was a widow. The lads presented a very dirty and utterly neglected appearance, Mr. Davis committed them to prison for a month, intimating that after that time they would be sent to a reformatory for four years [A report in another newspaper says that they broke into the house of William Ball, in Henry Street, Tunstall, which was next door to their house, and they got in by using their mother's house key]

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