Saltley Reformatory Inmates

Joseph Downs

No. in Admissions Register:	496
Age:	13
Whence received:	-
Description:
Complexion:	Fresh
Hair colour:	Brown
Eyes colour:	Brown
Visage:	-
Particular marks:	Mole on right loin
State of health:	Good
Able-bodied?	Yes
Date of admission and term:	5 January 1874
Late residence:	42 New Inkleys, Birmingham
Parish he belongs to:	St Jude's, Birmingham
Customary work and mode of life:	Bone and ivory toy making
Whether illegitimate:	Not
State of education:
Reads:	Not at all
Writes:	Not at all
Offence:	Stealing a bag of fruit
Circumstances which may have led to it:	-
Date of sentence, by who and court:	23 December 1873, Birmingham Police Court, T C S Kynnersley
Where imprisoned:	Birmingham
Sentence:	14 days prison (hard labour), 5 years at Saltley
Previous committals:
Number:	One
Length:	3 days and whipping
For what:	Stealing cigars
Father's name:	Thomas Downs
Occupation:	Bone and ivory toy maker
Mother's name:	-
Occupation:	-
Parents dead?	Mother
Survivor married again?	Yes
Parents' treatment of child:	Well
Character of parents	Good
Parents' wages:	Not known
Amount parents agree to pay:	Not stated
Parents address:	42 New Inkleys, Birmingham
Superintendent of police (to collect payments):	-
Person making this return:	-

Notes:

24 December 1873 There is a report of the crime in the Birmingham Daily Post Wednesday 24 December 1873 p.3 col.6: A BAD LAD. - Joseph Downes, The Inkleys, was charged with stealing a box of sweets from the shop of Mr. Andrew Hatton, confectioner, Islington, on the previous night. - The prisoner was only discharged from prison on Saturday, after receiving a whipping. He pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to fourteen days' imprisonment and five years' detention in a reformatory.

5 January 1882 Saw Downes on our way from Church

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