Lewis Lymer - Saltley Reformatory Inmate
| No. in Admissions Register: | 1154 |
| Age: | 13 (born 14 September 1883 |
| Whence received: | H M Prison Stafford |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Dark brown |
| Eyes colour: | Slate blue |
| Height: | 4 ft 7½ ins |
| Particular marks: | Small scar left of forehead |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Date of admission: | 14 April 1897 |
| Late residence: | Short Street, Uttoxeter |
| Parish he belongs to: | - |
| Customary work and mode of life: | - |
| Whether illegitimate: | No |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | - |
| Writes: | - |
| Offence: | Larceny |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Appears naturally vicious |
| Date of sentence, by whom and court: | 31 March 1897; S Blount and S B Bamford; Uttoxeter Petty Sessions |
| Where imprisoned: | H M Prison Stafford |
| Sentence: | 14 days in prison, 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | 4 |
| Length: | 1) (26 June 1895)fined 5s and costs; 2) (10 July 1895) 6 strokes; 3) (3 February 1897) fined 1s and costs; 4) (3 March 1897) fined 10s |
| For what: | 1) Wilful damage; 2) Larceny; 3) breach of peace laws; 4) stealing pigeons |
| Father's name: | John Lymer |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Mother's name: | Alice Lymer |
| Occupation: | Housewife |
| Parents dead? | Neither |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | - |
| Character of parents | Fair |
| Parents' wages: | - |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | - |
| Parents address: | Short Street, Uttoxeter |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | - |
| Person making this return: | A A Flint, Magistrates' Clerk |
| Notes: | |
| 28 June 1895 A previous offence was reported in the Derby Daily Telegraph Friday 28 June 1895 p.4 col.3: ASSAULT. - Thomas Mitchell, of Short-street, Uttoxeter, was charged by a lad named Louis Lymer with having assaulted him on the 17th inst. by striking him in the street. - Louis Lymer was also charged with breaking Mitchell's window, damage 1s. - Mitchell was fined 1s. and 11s. costs for the assault, and Lymer was fined 5s., 1s. damage, and 6s. costs. | |
| 12 July 1895 Another previous offence was reported in the Derby Daily Telegraph Friday 12 July 1895 p.4 col.4: A BAD BOY. - Lewis Lymer, aged 11 years, of Uttoxeter, was charged with having stolen a pocket- knife from a little boy named James Beetham. The defendant was before the Bench at the last court day for doing wilful damage. - Inspector Gilbride said he was constantly hearing of the mischief this boy was doing. He robbed gardens, fowl-pens, shops, &c., continually. - It was decided to give him six strokes with a birch rod, his parents to be allowed to be present if they chose. | |
| 5 February 1897 Yet another previous offence was reported in the Derby Daily Telegraph Friday 5 February 1897 p.4 col.3: THROWING SNOWBALLS. - Louis Lymner, William Greenhough, Ernest Udale, and Henry Buckley were charged by Kettle with snowballing in High Street on the 27th ult. - They were ordered to pay 1s. each. | |
| 10 March 1897 Another previous offence was reported in the Uttoxeter Advertiser and Ashbourne Times Wednesday 10 March 1897 p.5 col.1: THEFT OF PIGEONS BY BOYS. - Three Uttoxeter boys, named Louis Lymer, Henry Buckley, and William Greatorex, were charged with having stolen on the 22nd ult., eight pigeons, belonging to Arthur and Henry Hutton, of Dove Bank. The pigeons were fastened up on the night of the 21st, and the following morning were missing. Some wire netting had been broken down, and footprints in the garden corresponded with the boots of Lymer and Buckley. - David C. Newman, of the Highwood, said the boys came to his house on the 23rd ult., and asked whether his boy wanted to buy any pigeons, they at the time having four with them. A little later he saw them with a piece of string tied to one of the pigeons. - Police-constable Felmingham stated that Greatorex told him that he waited whilst the others fetched the pigeons at 12.30 midnight. - The charge against Greatorex was dismissed, but the others, against whom there were several previous convictions were fined 10s. and 12s. costs each, or a month's imprisonment. | |
| 24 March 1897 The remand hearing for the crime that sent him to Saltley was reported in the Uttoxeter Advertiser and Ashbourne Times Wednesday 24 March 1897 p.5 col.1: SPECIAL POLICE COURT. MONDAY. Before S. B. Bamford, Esq. PRECOCIOUS YOUTHS. - Henry Buckley and Lewis Lyrner, youths, of Uttoxeter, were charged by Thos. Alfred Seaton (whose parents live in the Blacksmith's Yard, Balance Street), with stealing a quantity of milk. The case was proved by P.c. Felmingham. It appears that on Friday morning, Seaton was returning from Church Street, with a can of milk when the accused youths met him. One of them seized the can and drank his fill, and then passed it on to his companion, who, when he drunk what he wanted, flung the remainder against a wall. Prisoners were remanded to the workhouse till next Petty Sessions. The sentence was briefly reported in the Uttoxeter Advertiser and Ashbourne Times Wednesday 7 April 1897 p.5 col.3 | |
| 19 May 1897 His father was in trouble, as reported in the Uttoxeter Advertiser and Ashbourne Times Wednesday 19 May 1897 p.5 col.2: A MAINTENANCE CASE. - John Lymer, labourer, was ordered to pay 1s. per week towards the maintenance of his son, Lewis Lymer, who, a weeks back, had been sent to a reformatory school at Saltley, Birmingham | |
| 4 August 1899 The Medical Officer reported: Fracture of radius, going on well by 23 August | |
| 24 July 1901 The Register of Boys on Licence records that Lymer was licensed to go out and work for Messers Isaac Ward and Sons, Uttoxeter | |
| early 1902 The Register of Boys on Licence records that Lymer enlisted at B...don, Staffordshire [place unreadable] | |
| 13 April 1902 Sentence expired whilst out on licence, discharged from Saltley | |
