| No. in Admissions Register: | 193 |
| Date of admission: | 28 November 1860 |
| Whence received: | Plymouth Gaol |
| By whom brought: | The Governor |
| On what terms: | - |
| Friends interested in him: | - |
| Description: | |
| Height: | - |
| Figure: | - |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Brown |
| Eyes colour: | Blue |
| Perfect vision? | Yes |
| State of health: | - |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Sound intellect? | Yes |
| Use of all limbs? | Yes |
| Had cow or small pox? | Smallpox |
| Particular marks: | None |
| Cutaneous disorder? | No |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | No |
| Subject to fits? | No |
| Age last birthday: | 12 |
| Illegitimate? | No |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | - |
| Has resided: | 50 Claremont Street, Plymouth |
| Parish to which he belongs: | St Andrew's, Plymouth |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Selling penny newspapers |
| Schools attended: | - |
| By whom and where employed: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Not at all |
| Writes: | Not at all |
| Cyphers: | |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | Stealing 10 gold rings and a silver knife |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Not known |
| Date of sentence: | 8 November 1860 |
| Where convicted: | Plymouth |
| Where imprisoned: | - |
| Sentence: | 21 days prison, 4 yearsat Saltley |
| Previous committals and convictions: | Stealing a silver spoon (21 days); stealing tea and sugar (1 month) |
| Father's name: | - |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | - |
| Mother's name: | Rachel Helson |
| Occupation: | Shoe binder |
| Residence: | 50 Claremont Street, Plymouth |
| Father's character: | - |
| Mother's character: | - |
| Parents dead? | Father |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | - |
| Character of parents | Has bad health and has parish relief |
| Parents' wages: | None |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | Not able to pay |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | - |
| Relatives to communicate with: | - |
| Person making this return: | - |
| Estimate of character on admission: | - |
| Character on discharge: | - |
| When and how left the Reformatory: | - |
9 November 1860 There is a report of his offence in the Western Morning News Friday 9 November 1860 p.2 col.6: THE ROBBERY IN WHIMPLE STREET. Henry Charles Helson, 10, Henry Grigg, 12, John Hicks, 10, and Samuel Hurrell 13, were brought up on remand, charged with stealing nine pairs of gold rings, ten pairs of ear-rings, two gold rings; a bracelet, two gold pins, and a silver knife, from the shop of Mr. Solomon, jeweller and general hardware-dealer, Whimple Street [Plymouth]. The mode of operation which the prisoners carried on was for two or three to enter the shop, frequently whilst the attention of those in the shop was occupied in serving other customers. Whilst one inquired the price of several articles in succession, the others contrived to lift the sash of a glass-case on the counter, and by this means was the missing jewellery abstracted. The suspicions of the prosecutor were at last aroused, and on one or two of them entering on Friday, for a two-penny purse, Mr. Solomon, jun., gave them into custody. Their disclosures, on being charged with the offence, led to the arrest of the others, and it appeared that gold rings had been freely sold to their companions for a penny each, bracelets had been bartered for leather belts, and sundry other equally extraordinary exchanges had been effected. Detective Dawe proceeded to the house of Hurrell's mother, and discovered the ear-rings in a box. Mrs. Hurrell on being examined, said her son had brought them to her, but their appearance betokened that they were composed of copper. She had not the slightest suspicion that they were gold rings, or that her boy had become possessed of them dishonestly; if she had thought so, she would not have placed them in her cotton box for safety. The prisoners elected to be tried by the magistrates; and Helson, who had been convicted twice previously, was sentenced to be imprisoned in the borough gaol and kept to hard labour for 21 days-at the conclusion of that term to be placed in a reformatory for four years. As the other prisoners appeared to have been enticed into the robbery by Helson, the Bench took their youth into consideration, and in the hope that they would in future abstain from all nefarious practices, they were cautioned and discharged.
28 April 1864 Taken to Birkenhead to emigrate to Sydney for ship Wanata
22 December 1864 Had a letter from him. Was 121 days on voyage and 14 days before he was hired, when he got employment with Mr John Hill, Manning River, Taree, Sydney. £16 a year, board, etc.
January 1866 In Queensland, doing well
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