Saltley Reformatory Inmates

Frederick Evans

No. in Admissions Register:	245
Date of admission:	8 December 1862
Whence received:	Birmingham Gaol
By whom brought:	-
On what terms:	-
Friends interested in him:	-
Description:
Height:	-
Figure:	-
Complexion:	Fresh
Hair colour:	Dark brown
Eyes colour:	Grey
Perfect vision?	Yes
State of health:	Good
Able-bodied?	Yes
Sound intellect?	Yes
Use of all limbs?	Yes
Had cow or small pox?	Smallpox
Particular marks:	Pock pitted; moles on neck
Cutaneous disorder?	No
Scrofulous or consumptive?	No
Subject to fits?	No
Age last birthday:	12
Illegitimate?	No
Birthday:	-
Birth place:	-
Has resided:	Broad Street, Birmingham
Parish he belongs to:	Birmingham
Customary work and mode of life:	Steel rolling, but generally idle
Schools attended:	-
By whom and where employed:	-
State of education:
Reads:	Imperfectly
Writes:	Imperfectly
Cyphers:	-
General ability:	-
Offence:	Stealing 3 pairs of gloves
Circumstances which may have led to it:	-
Date of sentence:	25 November 1862
Where convicted:	Moor Street
Who prosecuted:	-
Where imprisoned:	-
Sentence:	14 days prison, 5 years at Saltley
Previous committals and convictions:	Stealing a pineapple (14 days)
Father's name:	William Evans
Occupation:	Helper at cab stable
Residence:	back of Harvey's grocer, Broad Street, Birmingham
Mother's name:	-
Occupation:	-
Residence:	Back of 5 Kent Street [this address is a little odd as his mother is given as dead]
Father's character:	-
Mother's character:	-
Parents dead?	Mother
Survivor married again?	-
Parents' treatment of child:	-
Character of parents	Fair character but bad health
Parents' wages:	14s a week
Amount parents agree to pay:	1s a week
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 November 1862 There is a report of the crime in the Birmingham Daily Gazette Wednesday 26 November 1862 p.4 col.5: JUVENILE DELINQUENTS.- Henry Wright, 8, residing in Hurst Street, no occupation, and Frederick Evans. 12, Broad Street, described as a steel roller, were charged with stealing a box of gloves from the shop window of James Burgess, 161, Ledsam Street, draper. From the evidence it seems that about six o'clock the previous evening, the prosecutor heard a noise in his shop, and looking through a small pane of glass in the parlour, observed the prisoner, Henry Wright, crawling out of the shop on his hands and knees. The prosecutor ran out of the parlour, and caught hold of the prisoner Wright, who had the box of gloves under his arm. He also found the other prisoner standing outside the shop door, evidently wailing for his companion. The prosecutor then brought them both into the shop, sent for constable, and on his arrival the prisoner Wright dropped two pairs of gloves upon the floor at his feet, and which the prosecutor picked up. The prisoners were then given into custody. They now pleaded net guilty, and the prisoner Evans, having been previously convicted, they were sentenced to fourteen days' imprisonment with hard labour, and afterwards to be sent each to a reformatory for five years.

7 November 1865 Absconded with 290 [Nathaniel Newey] and 295 [John Webb], but was immediately retaken in Hand's fields [land adjoining the Reformatory]

5 January 1866 Absconded with 240 [Samuel Rowley]

24 August 1866 Apprehended and re-admitted

8 December 1867 Discharged

20 January 1868 Called at the school and said he was an ostler at the Bull's Head, Cookley, near Kidderminster

November 1869 In Birmingham. Doing pretty well

December 1870 In Birmingham. Doing pretty well

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