Saltley Reformatory Inmates

William Bayley

No. in Admissions Register:	390
Date of admission:	10 December 1868
Whence received:	Stafford Gaol
By whom brought:	-
On what terms:	-
Friends interested in him:	-
Description:
Height:	-
Figure:	-
Complexion:	Pale
Hair colour:	Brown
Eyes colour:	Brown
Perfect vision?	Yes
State of health:	-
Able-bodied?	-
Sound intellect?	Yes
Use of all limbs?	Yes
Had cow or small pox?	Mark is indistinct
Particular marks:	Blue marks on each arm
Cutaneous disorder?	Not
Scrofulous or consumptive?	Not apparent
Subject to fits?	No
Age last birthday:	10 but looks younger
Illegitimate?	-
Birthday:	-
Birth place:	-
Has resided:	Bilston
Parish he belongs to:	-
Customary work and mode of life:	-
Schools attended:	None
By whom and where employed:	-
State of education:
Reads:	Not at all
Writes:	Not at all
Cyphers:	-
General ability:	-
Offence:	Stealing 4s
Circumstances which may have led to it:	-
Date of sentence:	10 November 1868
Where convicted:	Wednesbury
Who prosecuted:	-
Where imprisoned:	-
Sentence:	1 month prison (hard labour), 5 years at Saltley
Previous committals and convictions:	None
Father's name:	-
Occupation:	-
Residence:	-
Mother's name:	Eliza Bayley
Occupation:	-
Residence:	Hancox's Yard, Oxford Street, Bilston
Father's character:	-
Mother's character:	-
Parents dead?	Father
Survivor married again?	Lives with John Connor – is in good health but very poor
Parents' treatment of child:	-
Character of parents	-
Parents' wages:	Not known
Amount parents agree to pay:	Not thought able 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:

14 November 1868 There is a report of the crime in the Staffordshire Advertiser 14 November 1868 p.7 col.7: JUVENILE THIEVES - John Pitt (11). Charles Scottock (8). William Bayley (9). and Joseph Fletcher (8). were charged with stealing 4s., the property of Joseph Rowler. shopkeeper, of Moxley. The prosecutor and Edward Riley proved the case. It was stated that the lad Bayley had been convicted of stealing a pair of boots, and Pitt of breaking into a hovel and firing at a train. Scottock's parents were present, and said their boy was in bed at the time of the robbery. but the prosecutor said he saw him about the door of the shop when he went into the cellar, though he could not say he was actually concerned in the robbery. Scottock was discharged. the evidence not being sufficient. Pitt and Bailey, having been previously convicted, were committed to prison for a month each, at the termination of which period the former will be sent to a reformatory for four years and the latter for five years.-Scottock was further charged with stealing a sovereign, the property of lsrael Butler. The evidence was very weak, and the case was dismissed, the magistrate ministering a severe reprimand to the parents for not taking better care of the youth.

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