| No. in Admissions Register: | 70 |
| Date of admission: | 19 April 1855 |
| Weekly payments: | - |
| Age: | 13 |
| Education: | Reads little |
| Previous employment: | None |
| Crimes, how often and in what prison: | 4 |
| Training in reformatory: | Absconded 31 March 1857 |
| When left reformatory: | - |
| Parentage and family: | Both living |
| Residence: | Smithfield St., Liverpool |
| Trade of father: | - |
| With whom the boy is placed: | - |
| Address: | - |
| Trade: | - |
[No date] In Admissions Register, states that Hughes was committed by the Magistrates Court to 1 month prison then 5 years at Saltley.
16 March 1855 Although the details of the sentence differ from those given in the Admissions Register, there is a possible rep[ort of his crime in the Liverpool Mercury Fri 16 March 1855, p.12, col.6: POCKET PICKING. – A boy, scarcely twelve years of age, named James Hughes, was committed to gaol for three months, for stealing a handkerchief from the pocket of Alexander Sorby, in London Road, on Monday. The prisoner, notwithstanding his youth, had previously been committed several times.
4 April 1857 In the Reformatory Minute book is recorded: 425.Mr Humphreys reported that Rooney [boy 63] and Tremble [boy 64] had absconded this day after attempting to pass bad money at a shop in the neighbourhood, and that the man who called at the school kept the halfcrown, and the charge against the boys can be proved.
426. Resolved: that information be sent to Mr Stephens at the Police Courts, and that proceedings be taken against Rooney and Tremble, also against Carlton [boy 91], Taylor [boy 92], Collins [boy 100], and Hughes, who absconded on the 1st of April.
20 April 1857 The Minute book records: 446. Mr Ratcliff mentioned that none of the boys mentioned in Minutes 425 and 426 have been taken [they absconded], and that Welch [boy 96], Wood [boy 67], Hughes, Smith [boy 78], and Cassidy [boy 94] have since absconded, and that Wood and Cassidy are now in prison for absconding, and Smith has been allowed by the Magistrates to return to the School.
Resolved: that the Police of the several districts where the boys reside be informed of their having absconded.
3 June 1857 The Minute Book list those boys who have absconded and are still at large, including Hughes.
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