Walter Hadden - Saltley Reformatory Inmate
| No. in Admissions Register: | 811 |
| Age: | 11 |
| Whence received: | H M Prison Stafford |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Sandy |
| Eyes colour: | Hazel |
| Height: | |
| Particular marks: | Cut on wrist (right) |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Slender |
| Date of admission: | 14 May 1886 |
| Late residence: | 1 Pall Mall Street |
| Parish he belongs to: | Hanley |
| Customary work and mode of life: | None |
| Whether illegitimate: | No |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Not at all |
| Writes: | Not at all |
| Offence: | Stealing a pair of slippers, etc |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Bad company |
| Date of sentence, by whom and court: | 15 April 1886; Jesse Shirley and Charles Adams; Hanley Court of Summary Jurisdiction |
| Where imprisoned: | H M Prison Stafford |
| Sentence: | 1 month in prison, 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | None |
| Length: | - |
| For what: | - |
| Father's name: | Harry Hadden |
| Occupation: | Furnace man |
| Mother's name: | Clara Hadden |
| Occupation: | - |
| Parents dead? | Neither |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Well treated |
| Character of parents | Fair |
| Parents' wages: | 20s per week |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | Ought to pay 1s 6d per week |
| Parents address: | 1 Pall Mall Street, Hanley |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | Herbert Windle, Chief Constable, Hanley |
| Person making this return: | - |
| Notes: | |
| 28 April 1886 The crime was reported in the Birmingham Daily Post Wednesday 28 April 1886 p.3 col.6: WOLVERHAMPTON. INCORRIGIBLE BOYS. - At the Police Court, yesterday, John Loftus (14), William Fellows (13), Philip Taylor (14), Henry Brown (15), and John Pantons (12), rough-looking boys, were charged with stealing cocoa-nuts, valued at 4s. 6d., the property of Thomas Greenway, of Brick-kiln: Street, proprietor of a cocoa-nut alley. - The nuts were missed on Monday, and they were found yesterday at prisoners' homes. - Taylor, who had been previously convicted of housebreaking, and Fellows, who was stated to be one of the worst boys in the Industrial School, were each sentenced one month's imprisonment and five years in a reformatory; Loftus and Brown were each sentenced to three days' imprisonment; and Parsons was sent to gaol for one month, and was ordered to receive twelve strokes with a birch rod. | |
| 23 April 1889 The Medical Officer reported: Burn of hand, doing well. Convalescent by 1 May | |
| 7 October 1889 The Register of Boys on Licence records that Hadden was licensed to go out and work for Mr Butler, Etruria Road, Hanley | |
| 13 May 1891 Sentence expired, discharged from Saltley | |
| 3 February 1894 The Reformatory Committee Log Book report records receipt of a letter from Hadden, Hanley | |