Saltley Reformatory Inmates


George Lane

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No. in Admissions Registers: 556
Age: 12
Whence received: Birmingham Borough Prison
Description:  
Complexion: -
Hair colour: -
Eyes colour: -
Visage: -
Particular marks: -
State of health: -
Able-bodied? -
Date of admission and term: 19 September 1876 5 years
Late residence: Gem Street School, Birmingham
Parish he belongs to: Birmingham
Customary work and mode of life: -
Whether illegitimate: -
State of education:  
Reads: Imperfectly
Writes: Imperfectly
Offence: Absconding
Circumstances which may have led to it: -
Date of sentence, by who and court: 6 September 1876, T C S Kynnersley
Where imprisoned: Birmingham Borough Prison
Sentence: 14 days prison (hard labour), 5 years at Saltley
Previous committals:  
Number: (To Industrial School)
Length: -
For what: -
Father's name: William Price (stepfather)
Occupation: -
Mother's name: Mary Ann Price
Occupation: -
Parents dead? Own father
Survivor married again? Yes
Parents' treatment of child: -
Character of parents Not known
Parents' wages: -
Amount parents agree to pay: -
Parents address: Saltley Road, Birmingham
Superintendent of police (to collect payments): -
Person making this return: -

Notes:

7 September 1876 The hearing that sent him to Saltley was reported in the Birmingham Daily Post Thursday 7 September 1876 P.6 col.5: ABSCONDING FROM GEM STREET SCHOOL. - Two youths, named George Lane and Christopher Stanton, were brought up charged with absconding from Gem Street Industrial School. Lane, who had absconded on previous occasions within the past twelve months, was sentenced to fourteen days' imprisonment, and afterwards to be kept in a reformatory for five years. The other prisoner was remanded.

18 September [1881] Sentence expired while still at large

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