Saltley Reformatory Inmates

Charles Holt Tipper

No. in Admissions Register:	469
Age:	14
Whence received:	Stafford County Prison
Description:
Complexion:	Fresh
Hair colour:	Sandy
Eyes colour:	Grey
Visage:	-
Particular marks:	-
State of health:	Good
Able-bodied?	Yes
Date of admission and term:	20 April 1872 4 years
Late residence:	Leek
Parish he belongs to:	Highgate, London
Customary work and mode of life:	Post Office telegraph messenger
Whether illegitimate:	-
State of education:
Reads:	Imperfectly
Writes:	Imperfectly
Offence:	Stealing money
Circumstances which may have led to it:	-
Date of sentence, by who and court:	20 March 1872, Leek Petty Sessions, H Sleigh and J Brough
Where imprisoned:	Stafford
Sentence:	1 month prison (hard labour), 3 years at Saltley
Previous committals:
Number:	None
Length:	-
For what:	-
Father’s name:	Charles Tipper
Occupation:	[see below]
Mother's name:	-
Occupation:	-
Parents dead?	Mother
Survivor married again?	Not
Parents’ treatment of child:	Good
Character of parents	Honest, sober, and good health
Parents’ wages:	Not known
Amount parents agree to pay:	Father is in London at address given below
Parents address:	Clerk at Dean and Gilbert’s, 5 Bulls Mouth Street, St Martin’s le Grande, London
Superintendent of police (to collect payments):	-
Person making this return:	-

Notes:

23 March 1872 There is a report of the crime in the Staffordshire Advertiser Saturday 23 March 1872 p.7 col.3: THEFT FROM THE POST OFFICE. - Charles Holt Tipper, of Leek, aged 14 years. a boy who had been employed at the Leek Post office was charged with stealing 5s. the property of his master. Mr. Clemesha, stationer, and 11s the property of Mr Thomas Garner, the acting Postmaster. On Mr Garner coming to act as Postmaster, he arranged to have the occasional services of the prisoner as assistant in the Post office consequently prisoner had access to the drawer where the money was kept. On Monday the prisoner was left In the Post-office while Mr Garner went out When he latter returned he found on balancing his cash that he was 11s short. His suspicions were aroused, as prisoner had made a deposit of 5s in the Post office Savings Bank during his absence. The prisoner afterwards admitted the theft. Mr Garner had previously missed other sums of money, but none since the 14th inst The prisoner, who pleaded guilty, was sentenced to one month's imprisonment and to be sent to a Reformatory School for four years.

23 May 1876 Should have left April 19th, but his father could not find him a home and he remained to this date, and then left to try to get employment at Leek

4 June 1876 There is a letter from the boy: 11 Johnson's Yard, Regent Street, Leek, June 4th 1876 Dear Sir, I hope you will excuse my not writing before, but I would not write till I had got work, and since then I have been making overtime every night till it was too late for the post. I am at work at Mr S Tatton's warehouse. He is a silk dyer. I have heard from my father - he is doing just the same as he was when you heard from him. I have seen W Smith [boy 452] and H Tomkinson too [boy 433]. Smith is working at a brickyard. He is not living with his father or his mother either. He says him and his father could not agree, and his mother is not in the town. Tomkinson is labouring for a bricklayer. I am quite well. I hope you and the mistress are so too. Please give my best respects to her. Please remember me to Mr and Mrs Hill. I hope they are both quite well. I got home quite safely. We can via Lichfield and Burton. We saw the militia billing [billeting?] in a field near Lichfield. I parted with Bickerton [boy 486] at Uttoxeter. I am, yours obediently, C Tipper. PS Please remember me to Mr Williams

5 June 1876 At work at Mr S Tatton's, dyers (silk), Leek

19 February 1896 C H Tipper paid a visit today. Address Fent(?) Stones, Killamarsh, near Sheffield

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