Arthur Littlejohn - Saltley Reformatory Inmate

No. in Admissions Register: 818
Age: 14
Whence received: H M Prison Birmingham
Description:  
Complexion: Sallow
Hair colour: Dark brown
Eyes colour: Dark brown
Height: 4 ft 9 ins
Particular marks: -
State of health: Good
Able-bodied? Yes
Date of admission: 23 June 1886
Late residence: 26A Warwick Street, Deritend, Birmingham
Parish he belongs to: Bloxwich
Customary work and mode of life: Bridle bit filing at Charrington's, Walsall
Whether illegitimate: No
State of education:  
Reads: Not at all
Writes: Not at all
Offence: Stealing 2 bottles of porter
Circumstances which may have led to it: Father's a cripple and mother a dissolute person
Date of sentence, by whom and court: 10 June 1886; T C S Kynnersley; Birmingham Police Court
Where imprisoned: H M Prison Birmingham
Sentence: 14 days in prison, 5 years at Saltley
Previous committals:  
Number: 1 (March 1885)
Length: 7 days Beal House
For what: Sleeping out
Father's name: George Littleton
Occupation: (A cripple)
Mother's name: Sarah Littleton
Occupation: Nil
Parents dead? No
Survivor married again? No
Parents' treatment of child: Mother's treatment is brutal
Character of parents Father a cripple, mother drunken
Parents' wages: Father earns a trifle occasionally by doing odd light jobs
Amount parents agree to pay: -
Parents address: Lichfield
Superintendent of police (to collect payments): -
Person making this return: -
   
Notes:
   
11 April 1889 Formally discharged from Saltley by order of the Home Secretary, on account of emigrating to Canada, along with Ward [boy 761] and Bishop [boy 831]
   
6 August 1889 The Reformatory Committee Log Book report records receipt of a letter from Littleton, via Mr Donaldson [the Reformatory's agent in Canada dealing with emigrants], Toronto