Saltley Reformatory Inmates

Henry Price

No. in Admissions Register:	155
Date of admission:	29 June 1859
Whence received:	Warwick House of Correction
By whom brought:	-
On what terms:	Under committal
Friends interested in him:	-
Description:
Height:	-
Figure:	Slim
Complexion:	Fresh
Hair colour:	Brown
Eyes colour:	Brown
Perfect vision?	Yes
State of health:	Fair
Able-bodied?	Yes
Sound intellect?	-
Use of all limbs?	-
Had cow or small pox?	-
Particular marks:	-
Cutaneous disorder?	No
Scrofulous or consumptive?	No
Subject to fits?	No
Age last birthday:	13
Illegitimate?	No
Birthday:	-
Birth place:	-
Has resided:	Birmingham
Parish to which he belongs:	Birkenhead
Customary work and mode of life:	Wire worker
Schools attended:	-
By whom and where employed:	Dale End
State of education:
Reads:	None
Writes:	None
Cyphers:	None
General ability:	None
Offence:	Stealing a brush
Circumstances which may have led to it:	Not known
Date of sentence:	15 Jun 1859
Where convicted:	Coleshill
Where imprisoned:	-
Sentence:	14 days prison, 5 years detention at Saltley
Previous committals and convictions:	Stealing iron, 1 day
Father's name:	William Price
Occupation:	Nightman in service of Corporation
Residence:	15 Livery Street, Birmingham
Mother's name:	Sarah Price
Occupation:	-
Residence:	-
Father's character:	-
Mother's character:	-
Parents dead?	-
Survivor married again?	-
Parents' treatment of child:	Good
Character of parents:	-
Parents' wages:	18s per week
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:

3 June 1859 There is a prior offence reported in the Coventry Standard Friday 3 June 1859 p.3 col.3: A JUVENILE PARTY. - John Holder, aged 15, Samuel Mason, 13, Thomas Woodcock, 11, Edwin Wasson, 14, George Williams, 13, and Henry Price, 13, all of Birmingham, were charged with stealing this morning, at Packington, three pheasants, belonging to the Earl of Aylesford. It appears the prisoners, who were tramping from Birmingham, got over the rails, and about 180 yards from the road the young pheasants were under the coop where they had been reared, when they took them. It was stated other charges could be brought against them for similar petty thefts.

The Bench remanded them for a week in order that enquiries might be made as to who and where they came from. The whole of the boys, as they state, slept in the Meriden workhouse the night before, and were released soon after six o'clock in the morning without food.

17 June 1859 There is a report of the offence that took him to Saltley in the Coventry Standard Friday 17 June 1859 p.3 col.5: LARCENY. - The six boys, reported last Tuesday fortnight for stealing three pheasants, were again brought up, and four of them discharged upon their parents undertaking to see that proper care and attention was paid them, and endeavour, as much as they possibly could, to keep them from such practices. The other two, Samuel Mason, and Henry Price, both 13 years of age, whose parents did not appear, was then charged with stealing a brush, of the value of fourpence, the property of Thomas Dutton, of the Clock Inn, Bickenhill.

It appears from the information supplied by PC Shuttleworth, on Wednesday, the 1st of June, he went in pursuit of the prisoners and overtook them, and found they had sold the brush for a piece of bread to John Smith, of Meriden, from whom he received and produced the brush. Mr Dutton identified the brush, and Mr Smith showed that the brush produced was the one bought. The prisoners pleaded guilty, and were sentenced to 14 days to the House of Correction and 5 years to the Reformatory Schools.

5 June 1862 Emigrated to Canada

30 July 1862 Heard from him working for Mr Samuel Sherwood , Wellington Street, Toronto

7 September 1863 Heard of doing well

September 1864 Heard of doing well at Niagara

September 1865 Heard of doing well at Chicago

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