Saltley Reformatory Inmates

James Phillips

No. in Admissions Register:	216
Date of admission:	7 May 1861
Whence received:	Birmingham Gaol
By whom brought:	-
On what terms:	-
Friends interested in him:	-
Description:
Height:	-
Figure:	-
Complexion:	Fresh
Hair colour:	Brown
Eyes colour:	Hazel
Perfect vision?	Yes
State of health:	Good
Able-bodied?	Yes
Sound intellect?	Yes
Use of all limbs?	Yes
Had cow or small pox?	Yes
Particular marks:	Scars on body
Cutaneous disorder?	No
Scrofulous or consumptive?	No
Subject to fits?	No
Age last birthday:	10
Illegitimate?	No
Birthday:	-
Birth place:	-
Has resided:	135 New John Street West, Birmingham
Parish he belongs to:	Birmingham
Customary work and mode of life:	Gun polisher
Schools attended:	-
By whom and where employed:	-
State of education:
Reads:	Imperfectly
General ability:	Not at all
Cyphers:	-
General ability:	-
Offence:	Stealing 40 cigars
Circumstances which may have led to it:	Bad company
Date of sentence:	17 April 1861
Where convicted:	Moor Street
Who prosecuted:	-
Where imprisoned:	-
Sentence:	21 days prison, 5 years at Saltley
Previous committals and convictions:	Stealing 22 pigeons, 3 days and whipped
Father's name:	James Phillips
Occupation:	Milkman
Residence:	175 [135 crossed out] New John Street West, Birmingham
Mother's name:	Ann Phillips
Occupation:	-
Residence:	-
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:	“Will be made to pay in proportion to their means”
Superintendent of police (to collect payments):	G Glossop
Relatives to communicate with:	-
Person making this return:	T C S Kynnersley
Estimate of character on admission:	-
Character on discharge:	-
When and how left the Reformatory:	-

Notes:

26 February 1861 There is a report of the crime in the Birmingham Daily Post Tuesday 26 February 1861 p.3 col.4: A GANG OF YOUNG THIEVES. - Four lads, their ages averaging from eleven to fourteen, named Samuel Taylor, James Phillips, Charles Ingestre, and John Jones [boy 212], were charged with stealing twenty-two pigeons, value £3, the property of Henry Longley, gun polisher, Hampton Row. It appears that, on Saturday night, the pigeons were locked up safe in a pen on the prosecutor's premises; but on the following morning the pen was found to have been broken open and twenty-two pigeons stolen,. About half-past nine o'clock on Sunday morning a man named Wilton met Taylor, Phillips, and Jones with eighteen of the stolen birds in their possession. He suspected that they were stolen, and questioned the prisoners about them. Taylor replied that they belonged to his father, but Wilton, doubting his statement, gave the prisoners into custody. They then directed the officer to Ingestre's house, where they found the remaining four. The prisoners, who have all been In trouble before, pleaded guilty, Taylor and Jones being sentenced to twenty one days' imprisonment, and after the expiration of that term to be sent to a Reformatory School for five years, Phillips to two days' imprisonment and to be well whipped,- and Ingestre to one day' s imprisonment.

26 March 1865 Absconded early in the morning, and brought back by his father in time for church.

25 August [no year given] A letter from his mother: Sir, my husband and I are very glad to [can't read] James Phillips our son [would?] beg to thank you for your kindness in letting him come - we are much blessed to see him look so well, and we shall always bear in mind your kindness to him.and he does send his grateful thanks to you, sir, for the favours you have showed him, and hopes by good conduct in future to merit esteem. He will be sure to come [out?] on Saturday week as you have desired, sir. Again accept our united thanks and believe me your grateful servant, Ann Phillips.

June 1867 Working for his brother in law. Doing well

October 1868 Reconvicted at Aston.

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