John Jones [244] - Saltley Reformatory Inmate
| No. in Admissions Register: | 244 |
| Date of admission: | 8 November 1862 |
| Whence received: | Walsall Gaol |
| By whom brought: | - |
| On what terms: | - |
| Friends interested in him: | - |
| Description: | |
| Height: | - |
| Figure: | - |
| Complexion: | Pale |
| Hair colour: | Brown |
| Eyes colour: | Brown |
| Perfect vision? | Squints |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Sound intellect? | Yes |
| Use of all limbs? | Yes |
| Had cow or small pox? | Yes |
| Particular marks: | - |
| Cutaneous disorder? | No |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | No |
| Subject to fits? | No |
| Age last birthday: | 12 |
| Illegitimate? | - |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | - |
| Has resided: | Idle Alley, Park Street, Walsall |
| Parish he belongs to: | Walsall |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Brass dresser |
| Schools attended: | - |
| By whom and where employed: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Not at all |
| Writes: | Not at all |
| Cyphers: | - |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | Stealing a waistcoat |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Bad company |
| Date of sentence: | 27 October 1862 |
| Where convicted: | Walsall, before J Harrison and Peter Potter |
| Who prosecuted: | - |
| Where imprisoned: | - |
| Sentence: | 14 days prison, 3 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals and convictions: | Three: vagrancy; larceny; garden robbing |
| Father's name: | John Jones |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | Idle Alley, Park Street, Walsall |
| Mother's name: | Susan Jones |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | - |
| Father's character: | Good |
| Mother's character: | Good |
| Parents dead? | - |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | - |
| Character of parents | Father often bad health; mother not able to manage the boy |
| Parents' wages: | £1 from work. Three children to support |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | 1s per week |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | Mr W Cater |
| Relatives to communicate with: | - |
| Person making this return: | - |
| Estimate of character on admission: | - |
| Character on discharge: | - |
| When and how left the Reformatory: | 7 Nov 1865 - Discharged on expiration of sentence |
Notes:
| 1 November 1862 There is a report of his crime in the Staffordshire Advertiser Saturday 1 November 1862 p.6 col.5: COMMITTAL TO A REFORMATORY.-John Jones, twelve years of age. was charged with stealing a vest, the property of Mr. Cooper, pawnbroker. Wolverhampton-lane. The property was identified by Ellen Bird, assistant to Mr. Cooper. Police Constable Shaw stated that on Friday last while on duty in Park-street, the boy's mother called him, and said that her son, who had been away from home for a fortnight previously, had stolen a waistcoat. He took the lad to the police-station, and subsequently ascertained that the vest belonged to Mr. Cooper. Mrs. Jones, who was in Court, gave her son a very bad character, and the boy was sentenced to fourteen days' imprisonment, and at the end of that time will be sent to a reformatory. |
| 7 November 1865 Discharged |
| June 1867 Hanging about Birmingham. Doubtful [character] |
