Thomas Beckett - Saltley Reformatory Inmate
| No. in Admissions Register: | 723 |
| Age: | 13 |
| Whence received: | H M Prison Birmingham |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Brown |
| Eyes colour: | Grey |
| Visage: | Height 4 ft 7½ ins |
| Particular marks: | - |
| State of health: | - |
| Able-bodied? | - |
| Date of admission: | 1883 |
| Late residence: | 120 Coplow Street, Dudley Road, Smethwick |
| Parish he belongs to: | Birmingham |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Casting |
| Whether illegitimate: | No |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | Imperfectly |
| Offence: | Stealing one ulster |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Bad company |
| Date of sentence, by whom and court: | 18 June 1883; T C S Kynnersley; Court of Summary Jurisdiction |
| Where imprisoned: | H M Prison Birmingham |
| Sentence: | 14 days hard labour in prison, 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | 1 |
| Length: | Remanded for a week |
| For what: | Stealing his father's waistcoat |
| Father's name: | George Beckett |
| Occupation: | Fitter |
| Mother's name: | Eliza Beckett |
| Occupation: | - |
| Parents dead? | Neither |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Good |
| Character of parents | Good |
| Parents' wages: | £3 per week |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | - |
| Parents address: | 120 Coplow Street, Dudley Road, Smethwick |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | - |
| Person making this return: | - |
| Notes: | |
| 1 June 1883 There is a report of possibly a different crime in the Birmingham Mail Friday 1 June 1883 p.3 col.5: THEFT BY BOYS. Thomas Beckett (13), Coplow Street, schoolboy, and Arthur Corley (13), St. George's Street, dipper, were charged with being In company with another boy, and stealing a coat from the office of Mr. Field, factor, Holland Street, the property of Charles Fellows, Bell Lane, Erdington. They pleaded guilty. Corley, who bears a good character, was let off on his father being bound for him, and Beckett, who has been in trouble before for being an associate of thieves, was ordered to receive twelve cuts from the birch. | |
| 3 October 1884 Medical officer reports: Bilious catarrh, convalescent by 6 October | |
| 27 October 1885 Medical officer reports: Starvation while absent as abscondee, pulmonary catarrh. Diagnosed with peritonitis on 6 December. That improved, but on 30 December Medical Officer decided he had constitutional debility from privation during absence from School. Ordered good food, cod liver oil, and rest | |
| 22 April 1886 Discharged from Saltley by order of the Home Secretary on emigrating to Canada from Liverpool on the SS Circassian along with Hurley [730], Moss [boy 680], and Wareham [boy 715] | |
| 8 November 1887 The Reformatory Committee Log Book report records receipt of a letter from Beckett, Vandecar, Ontario, Canada | |