Joseph Bradley - Saltley Reformatory Inmate

alias Joseph Hussey
No. in Admissions Register: 363
Date of admission: 13 September 1867
Whence received: Warwick Gaol
By whom brought: -
On what terms: -
Friends interested in him: -
Description:
Height: 4 ft 1 in
Figure: -
Complexion: Fair
Hair colour: Light
Eyes colour: Grey
Perfect vision? Yes
State of health: Good
Able-bodied? -
Sound intellect? Yes
Use of all limbs? Yes
Had cow or small pox? Cowpox
Particular marks: Broad – large features
Cutaneous disorder? No
Scrofulous or consumptive? No
Subject to fits? No
Age last birthday: 10
Illegitimate? Not
Birthday: -
Birth place: -
Has resided: Warwick
Parish he belongs to: Warwick
Customary work and mode of life: -
Schools attended: None
By whom and where employed: -
State of education:
Reads: Not at all
Writes: Not at all
Cyphers: -
General ability: -
Offence: Garden robbing
Circumstances which may have led to it: -
Date of sentence: 26 August 1867
Where convicted: Warwick before J Y Robins and W Smith
Who prosecuted: -
Where imprisoned: -
Sentence: 21 days prison, 5 years at Saltley
Previous committals and convictions: None
Father's name: Dead
Occupation: -
Residence: -
Mother's name: Hannah Hussey
Occupation: Washerwoman
Residence: Packmores, Warwick
Father's character: -
Mother's character: Industrious
Parents dead? -
Survivor married again? Not
Parents' treatment of child: -
Character of parents -
Parents' wages: Not known
Amount parents agree to pay: 1s a week
Superintendent of police (to collect payments):        -
Relatives to communicate with: -
Person making this return: J W Anderson, Warwick Gaol
Estimate of character on admission: -
Character on discharge: -
When and how left the Reformatory: -


Notes:

5 September 1867 There is a report of the crime in the Leamington Advertiser and Beck's List of Visitors Thursday 5 September 1867 p.3 col.5: GARDEN ROBBERY. -Joseph Bradley and William Kite, two boys aged respectively ten and nine years, were brought up in custody, charged with having stolen half a pint of nuts and six plums from the garden of Mr. Tibbits.-The prosecutor is a butcher, and has a garden in the Packmores. About two o'clock on the afternoon of the 27th ult., Joseph Stringer, one of the prosecutor's servants, saw the prisoners in his master's garden. Kite was up the plum tree and Bradley was standing beneath it. Stringer succeeded in capturing Bradley, who had a plum and some nuts in his possession, but the other boy managed to escape.-Bradley, who had been previously convicted, was sentenced to be imprisoned for fourteen days, and then to be detained at a reformatory for five yean. Kite was discharged.
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