Saltley Reformatory Inmates

Frederick Benbow

No. in Admissions Register:	523
Age:	14
Whence received:	Stafford Gaol
Description:
Complexion:	Pale
Hair colour:	Brown
Eyes colour:	Grey
Visage:	Round
Particular marks:	-
State of health:	Good
Able-bodied?	Yes
Date of admission and term:	23 October 1874 5 years
Late residence:	Stoke upon Trent
Parish he belongs to:	Stoke upon Trent
Customary work and mode of life:	Butcher
Whether illegitimate:	-
State of education:
Reads:	Imperfectly
Writes:	Imperfectly
Offence:	Stealing a cigar holder
Circumstances which may have led to it:	-
Date of sentence, by who and court:	26 September 1874, Hanley Petty Sessions, E Bodley and H Cartlidge
Where imprisoned:	Stafford
Sentence:	1 month prison (hard labour), 5 years at Saltley
Previous committals:
Number:	None
Length:	-
For what:	-
Father's name:	Dead
Occupation:	-
Mother's name:	Dead
Occupation:	-
Parents dead?	Both
Survivor married again?	-
Parents' treatment of child:	-
Character of parents	-
Parents' wages:	-
Amount parents agree to pay:	-
Parents address:	-
Superintendent of police (to collect payments):	-
Person making this return:	-

Notes:

21 September 1874 There is a report of the crime in the Staffordshire Sentinel Monday 21 September 1874 p.2 col.4: A PARISH APPRENTICE.-Frederick Benbow, a ragged boy, about fourteen, was charged with stealing a cigar-holder, from the shop of William Spencer, tobacconist. -The prosecutor's son said the prisoner and another came into the shop on Saturday afternoon, and inquired for some meerschaum cigar-holders. They were shown some, but these being too small, they were shown some larger ones. In the meantime, the prisoner put the cigar-holder in his pocket.- lt was explained that the boy was a parish apprentice, who had been bound to Mr. Keates, pork- butcher. - The Bench sent the boy to gaol for a month, and ordered him to be kept in a reformatory for five years.

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