Saltley Reformatory Inmates


Robert Baxter

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No. in Admissions Register: 453
Age: 14
Whence received: Birmingham Gaol
Description:  
Complexion: Fresh
Hair colour: Dark brown
Eyes colour: Grey
Visage: -
Particular marks: Mole on left side of stomach
State of health: Good
Able-bodied? Yes
Date of admission and term: 13 September 1871 5 years
Late residence: 13 court 4 house Sheep Street, Birmingham
Parish he belongs to: Birmingham
Customary work and mode of life: Button maker
Whether illegitimate: No
State of education:  
Reads: Not at all
Writes: Not at all
Offence: Stealing 3 files
Circumstances which may have led to it: Not known
Date of sentence, by who and court: 31 August 1871, Birmingham Police Court, T C S Kynnersley
Where imprisoned: Birmingham, Borough Gaol
Sentence: 14 days prison (hard labour), 5 years at Saltley
Previous committals:
Number: None
Length: -
For what: -
Father’s name: Dead
Occupation: -
Mother's name: Mary Baxter
Occupation: Button carder
Parents dead? -
Survivor married again? Not
Parents’ treatment of child: Kind
Character of parents Good
Parents’ wages: About 7s per week
Amount parents agree to pay: No sum mentioned
Parents address: 13 court 4 house Sheep Street, Birmingham
Superintendent of police (to collect payments):  
Person making this return: D Meaden

Notes:

1 September 1871 There is a report of the crime, but with an erroneous first name given, in the Birmingham Daily Gazette Friday 1 September 1871 p.6 col.5: STEALING FILES.-Richard Baxter (14) [first name given as thus], glass button maker, 13 Court, Sheep Street, was charged with stealing three files from a workshop of Hammond, Turner, and Son, Snow Hill, belonging to one of the workmen.- The prisoner had been in Mr. Turner's service for about six years, and during the last three months prisoner had been suspected of committing petty thefts. On Wednesday morning a number of files were found concealed in the corner of a work room. At one o'clock the prisoner was seen pass through the shop, and immediately after the files were missed. Prisoner was followed, and apprehended. On being searched three file handles and 1½d. were found on the prisoner. He admitted, when charged, that he took the files and sold them without the bandies for 1½d -He was sent to gaol for 14 days, and afterwards to Saltley Reformatory for five years.

20 January 1875 Licensed to work for H Matthews, 15 Whitehead Street

16 October 1875 Working for W Wood, brassfounder, Sheep Street, Aston

6 December 1875 Working for W Wood, brassfounder, Sheep Street, Aston

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