Thomas Cook - Saltley Reformatory Inmate
| No. in Admissions Register: | 842 |
| Age: | 15 |
| Whence received: | H M Prison Birmingham |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Brown |
| Eyes colour: | Brown |
| Height: | 4 ft 8 ins |
| Particular marks: | Small dot back of right hand |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Date of admission: | 26 March 1887 |
| Late residence: | 29 court 2 house Summer Street, Birmingham |
| Parish he belongs to: | Birmingham |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Pearl button filer |
| Whether illegitimate: | No |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | Imperfectly |
| Offence: | Stealing a prayer book |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Bad companionship |
| Date of sentence, by whom and court: | 14 March 1887; T Sneyd Kynnersley; Birmingham Police Court |
| Where imprisoned: | H M Prison Birmingham |
| Sentence: | 14 days hard labour in prison, 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | None known |
| Length: | - |
| For what: | - |
| Father's name: | Henry Cook |
| Occupation: | Pearl button cutter |
| Mother's name: | Jane Cook |
| Occupation: | - |
| Parents dead? | Both alive |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Good |
| Character of parents | Respectable, etc |
| Parents' wages: | Father earns about £2 per week |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | Not yet assessed |
| Parents address: | 20 court 2 house Summer Street, Birmingham |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | Superintendent Wilcox, Council House, Birmingham |
| Person making this return: | M Elliott |
| Notes: | |
| 15 March 1887 There is a report of the crime in the Birmingham Daily Post Tuesday 15 March 1887 p.7 col.2: THEFT OF A PRAYER-BOOK. Thomas Cooke (16), Court, Summer Street, Thomas Scribbins (15), Court, Hospital Street, and Thomas Rabone (14), Cliveland Street, were charged with stealing a prayer-book from the shop of Ann Hillman, Snow Hill. - The robbery was committed on Saturday morning, and during the day Cooke offered the book for sale at a second-hand clothes shop in Tower Street. The shopkeeper concluded that it had been stolen, and gave information to Police-constable George Davis, who arrested the prisoners soon afterwards. They all pleaded guilty. - Rabone was discharged, but Scribbins was fined 5s. and costs, or seven days' imprisonment; and Cooke was sentenced to fourteen days' imprisonment, and five years in a reformatory. | |
| 17 October 1889 The Medical Officer reported: Slight rash | |
| 18 January 1890 The Register of Boys on Licence records that Cook was licensed to go out and work for Mr Yates, Grove Place, Mount Street, Nechells, Birmingham | |
| 25 March 1892 Sentence expired, discharged from Saltley whilst on licence | |
| 11 October 1892 The Reformatory Committee Log Book report records receipt of a letter from Cook, Kildare | |
| 8 February 1898 The Log Book report records receipt of a letter from Cook [spelled Cooke], Rawalpindi NWP (North West Province), India. (On the North West of India. Hopes all are well at Saltley) | |
| 10 April 1900 The Log Book report records receipt of a letter from Cook, Dum Dum, India | |
| 9 December 1902 The Log Book report records receipt of a letter from Cook, Ceylon | |
