Allan Panter - Saltley Reformatory Inmate
| No. in Admissions Register: | 1053 |
| Age: | 12 (born 16 April 1881) |
| Whence received: | Aston Workhouse |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Dark brown |
| Eyes colour: | Brown |
| Height: | 4 ft 11½ ins |
| Particular marks: | Scar on top of head; 2 scars behind, lower down |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Date of admission: | 29 January 1894 |
| Late residence: | The Town School, Sutton Coldfield |
| Parish he belongs to: | Sutton Coldfield |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Schoolboy |
| Whether illegitimate: | No |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | Imperfectly |
| Offence: | Theft of a pineapple and a rabbit trap |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | - |
| Date of sentence, by whom and court: | 16 January 1894; T S Eddowes and S A Taylor; Sutton Coldfield Petty Sessions |
| Where imprisoned: | Erdington Workhouse |
| Sentence: | 14 days in Workhouse, then Saltley until 16 years of age |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | Nil |
| Length: | - |
| For what: | - |
| Father's name: | Charles Panter |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Mother's name: | - |
| Occupation: | - |
| Parents dead? | Mother |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Boy deserted by father |
| Character of parents | Bad |
| Parents' wages: | Not known |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | - |
| Parents address: | Not known |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | - |
| Person making this return: | - |
| Notes: | |
| 18 January 1894 There was a report of the crime in the Warwickshire Herald Thursday 18 January 1894 p.4 col.6: Allan Panter, 11, schoolboy, Duke-street, was brought up charged with stealing from the shop of Robert Hodgkinson, greengrocer, Parade, on the 9th inst., a pine apple of the value of 3s., and also with stealing from the shop of Clement Felton, ironmonger, between the 10th and the 15th of December a rabbit trap, value 1s. - The boy pleaded guilty to the first charge but not to the second, stating that another boy named Lakin stole the trap. - Sarah Hodgkinson, wife of the prosecutor, said on the evening of the 9th inst. she placed a pine apple in the front of the shop., and at the same time she noticed the lad and another little one playing near. She then went to tea, and in her temporary absence she found that the apple had been stolen. - Clement Felton said six traps were hung inside the door of his shop and between the 10th and 15th of December he missed one of them. The one produced was the one he had lost. - Frederick Lakin, another schoolboy, said he saw Panter with the trap and he told him he had stolen it from Mr. Felton's shop. He hid the trap under his coat. - Police-constable Talbot said he apprehended the lad at his sister's house, with whom he lived, and after he had charged him with stealing the pine apple Mrs. White gave him the trap produced, which Panter said had been stolen by Fred. Lakin. He gave him a sixpenny trap for it. He confronted the boys and Lakin denied the statement. - Police-sergeant Smye said prisoner had no mother, and his father had absconded from the town some time ago after a summons had been served on him. Prisoner was living with a sister, who could do nothing with him. He had received several complaints respecting the lad's pilfering. - Bench remanded the boy to the Workhouse for a fortnight to enable enquiries to be made respecting a home for him. | |
| 9 June 1897 The Register of Boys on Licence records that Panter was licensed to go out and work for Mr Martin, Egleton Farm, Oakham | |
| 16 August 1897 Sentence expired whilst out on licence, discharged from Saltley | |
