Saltley Reformatory Inmates


James Hughes

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No. in Admissions Register: 70
Date of admission: 19 April 1855
Weekly payments: -
Age: 13
Education: Reads little
Previous employment: None
Crimes, how often and in what prison: 4
Training in reformatory: Absconded 31 March 1857
When left reformatory: -
Parentage and family: Both living
Residence: Smithfield St., Liverpool
Trade of father: -
With whom the boy is placed: -
Address: -
Trade: -

Notes:

[No date]  In Admissions Register, states that Hughes was committed by the Magistrates Court to 1 month prison then 5 years at Saltley.

16 March 1855 Although the details of the sentence differ from those given in the Admissions Register, there is a possible rep[ort of his crime in the Liverpool Mercury Fri 16 March 1855, p.12, col.6: POCKET PICKING. – A boy, scarcely twelve years of age, named James Hughes, was committed to gaol for three months, for stealing a handkerchief from the pocket of Alexander Sorby, in London Road, on Monday. The prisoner, notwithstanding his youth, had previously been committed several times.

4 April 1857 In the Reformatory Minute book is recorded: 425.Mr Humphreys reported that Rooney [boy 63] and Tremble [boy 64] had absconded this day after attempting to pass bad money at a shop in the neighbourhood, and that the man who called at the school kept the halfcrown, and the charge against the boys can be proved.

426. Resolved: that information be sent to Mr Stephens at the Police Courts, and that proceedings be taken against Rooney and Tremble, also against Carlton [boy 91], Taylor [boy 92], Collins [boy 100], and Hughes, who absconded on the 1st of April.

20 April 1857 The Minute book records: 446. Mr Ratcliff mentioned that none of the boys mentioned in Minutes 425 and 426 have been taken [they absconded], and that Welch [boy 96], Wood [boy 67], Hughes, Smith [boy 78], and Cassidy [boy 94] have since absconded, and that Wood and Cassidy are now in prison for absconding, and Smith has been allowed by the Magistrates to return to the School.

Resolved: that the Police of the several districts where the boys reside be informed of their having absconded.

3 June 1857 The Minute Book list those boys who have absconded and are still at large, including Hughes.

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