William Fellows - Saltley Reformatory Inmate
| No. in Admissions Register: | 812 |
| Age: | 13 |
| Whence received: | H M Prison Stafford |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | Pale |
| Hair colour: | Brown |
| Eyes colour: | Light grey |
| Height: | - |
| Particular marks: | Small blue spot back of left arm |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Slender |
| Date of admission: | 27 May 1886 |
| Late residence: | John Street, Wolverhampton |
| Parish he belongs to: | Wolverhampton |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Nil |
| Whether illegitimate: | No |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | Imperfectly |
| Offence: | Stealing cocoa nuts |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | This boy took to truancy some time ago and has got into bad company. The object of sending him to a reformatory is to separate him from bad companions, also from better boys than himself whom he has been injuring |
| Date of sentence, by whom and court: | 27 April 1886; W Walker; Wolverhampton Court of Summary Jurisdiction |
| Where imprisoned: | H M Prison Stafford |
| Sentence: | 1 month in prison, 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | Nil |
| Length: | - |
| For what: | - |
| Father's name: | William Fellows |
| Occupation: | Fitter |
| Mother's name: | Annie Fellows |
| Occupation: | - |
| Parents dead? | Neither |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Well-treated |
| Character of parents | Both very respectable |
| Parents' wages: | Out of employment at present |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | Will be ordered by Justices |
| Parents address: | John Street, Wolverhampton |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | Major Hay, Chief Constable, Wolverhampton |
| Person making this return: | R D D Hay |
| Notes: | |
| 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. | |
| 25 November 1887 The Medical Officer reported: Conjunctivitis of both eyes. Ordered his Uropiac[?] and [word illegible] plumb. Improving. Quite better by 1 December | |
| 11 February 1889 The Register of Boys on Licence reports that Fellowes was licensed to go out and work for Mr McDonald, Wolverhampton | |
| 1 July 1889 The Register of Boys on Licence reports that Fellowes was licensed to go out and work for Charles Mann, Wolverhampton | |
| 26 May 1891 Sentence expired, discharged from Saltley | |