| Description | Notes on the previous convictions and misbehaviour of George Arnold and Samuel Hill alias Cox, inmates at the Castle Howard Reformatory. Both are considered quite beyond the reach of reformatory treatment
George Arnold was convicted of robbery from a shop at the Petty Sessions for Leven in the East Riding on 25 July 1861. He was imprisoned at Beverley for three months and then sent to Castle Howard Reformatory for five years. He had twice previously been convicted at Hull, once for robbing his master and once for breaking windows, as well as being imprisoned for absconding from his work as an apprentice. He was admitted to the reformatory in October 1861. In February 1864 he was sent to service on licence to Henry Smith of Upper Helmsley, but absconded after three weeks. He went to Gravesend in Kent where he gave himself up to the police and was brought back to the reformatory
Samuel Hill alias Cox was twice convicted at Manchester and imprisoned, once for stealing knives and forks and once for stealing a coat. On the second conviction he was sent to the Blackley reformatory for five years. He caused a disturbance there and absconded. Soon after, he was convicted of shop robbery at Leeds and sentenced to a reformatory for five years. He was ordered to be removed to Castle Howard by the Secretary of State and was admitted there on 12 January 1863
With covering letter from Ishmael Fish at Castle Howard Reformatory Farm School to Captain Gardner dated 27 June 1864 |