Thomas Coope - Saltley Reformatory Inmate

No. in Admissions Register: 171
Date of admission: 11 May 1860
Whence received: Birmingham Gaol
By whom brought: -
On what terms: -
Friends interested in him: -
Description:
Height: -
Figure: -
Complexion: Fresh
Hair colour: Dark brown
Eyes colour: Grey
Perfect vision? Yes
State of health: Good
Able-bodied? Yes
Sound intellect? Yes
Use of all limbs? Yes
Had cow or small pox? Yes
Particular marks: Scars on hand and body
Cutaneous disorder? No
Scrofulous or consumptive? No
Subject to fits? No
Age last birthday: 12
Illegitimate? No
Birthday: -
Birth place:
Has resided: 24 New Summer Street, Birmingham
Parish to which he belongs: Portsmouth
Customary work and mode of life: Gun implement maker
Schools attended: -
By whom and where employed:
State of education:
Reads: Imperfectly
Writes: Imperfectly
Cyphers: -
General ability: -
Offence: Stealing a coat
Circumstances which may have led to it: -
Date of sentence: 21 April 1860
Where convicted: Police Court, Birmingham
Where imprisoned: Borough Gaol, Birmingham
Sentence: 21 days prison, 5 years detention at Saltley
Previous committals and convictions: Stealing herrings and cheese (21 days, whipping)
Father's name: Frederick Coope
Occupation: Soldier,
Residence: 2
Mother's name: Ann Coope
Occupation: Washerwoman
Residence: 24 New Summer Street, Birmingham
Father's character: -
Mother's character: -
Parents dead? No
Survivor married again? -
Parents' treatment of child: -
Character of parents -
Parents' wages: -
Amount parents agree tp pay: Mother can't pay, having several other children. Father can't be summoned
Superintendent of police (to collect payments):      -
Relatives to communicate with: -
Person making this return: T C S Kymmersley, Esq.
Estimate of character on admission: -
Character on discharge: -
When and how left the Reformatory: -


Notes:

23 April 1860 The is a short report of his offence in Aris's Birmingham Gazette Monday 23 April 1860 p.4 col.5: A lad named Thomas Coop [surname spelled thus], aged twelve, a gun implement maker, was charged with stealing a jacket from the house of Mr John Bullock, hatter, New Summer Street. The prisoner, who lodged at Mr Bullock's, took the garment on the previous day, and sold it to a clothes dealer for 8d. - Mr Bullock gave the young delinquent a very bad character; he refused to work and was constantly in the company of thieves, and a continual source of trouble to his mother, who is the wife of a soldier now in Corfu, and is in very humble circumstances. Mr Kynnersley sentenced the lad to twenty-one days imprisonment, and five years detention in a Reformatory.
 
[Prosecuted by Mr Bullock, whose first name is given as Thomas in the Admissions Register, John in the newspaper report]
 
13 January 1862 Absconded with 196 [Michael Darkin]
 
18 January 1862 Apprehended at Oswestry with 175 [Martin McAvoy] and 196 [Michael Darkin], and brought back
 
6 May 1862 Absconded
 
2 June 1862 Heard of his apprehension at Leeds and his committal to prison for 3 months hard [labour] and a reformatory for 5 years.
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