| No. in Admissions Register: | 488 |
| Age: | 15 |
| Whence received: | Birmingham Prison |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Brown |
| Eyes colour: | Brown |
| Visage: | - |
| Particular marks: | Scar on left loin |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Date of admission and term: | 19 June 1873 5 years |
| Late residence: | 118 Balsall Heath Road, Birmingham |
| Parish he belongs to: | Tamworth |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Butcher |
| Whether illegitimate: | No |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | Imperfectly |
| Offence: | Stealing £23 |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Not known |
| Date of sentence, by who and court: | 30 May 1873, Birmingham Police Court, T C S Kynnersley |
| Where imprisoned: | Birmingham Borough Prison |
| Sentence: | 21 days prison (hard labour), 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | None |
| Length: | - |
| For what: | - |
| Father's name: | John Lee |
| Occupation: | Butcher |
| Mother's name: | Jane lee |
| Occupation: | - |
| Parents dead? | Neither |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Kind |
| Character of parents | Good |
| Parents' wages: | £3 or £4 per week |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | No sum mentioned |
| Parents address: | 118 Balsall Heath Road, Birmingham |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | G Glossop |
| Person making this return: | - |
31 May 1873 There is a report of the crime in the Birmingham Daily Post Saturday 31 May 1873 p.6 col.6: YOUTHFUL PRECOCITY. - Joseph Lee (14), Balsall Heath, was charged with stealing £23. 13s. On the 4th of April the prisoner was sent to the bank by his master, Mr. Paste, butcher, Snow Hill, with a cheque for £23. 13s. He got the cheque cashed, and' absconded with the money. Nothing was heard of him until yesterday week, when lie returned from the Isle of Man, and was handed over at Liverpool to Detective-sergeant Cooper. He was then charged by Cooper with stealing the money, and admitted his guilt. The money he had stolen enabled him to see most of the places of interest in the Isle of Man, to furnish him with a suit of clothes, and to demonstrate his affection for a Miss Priestley, with whom he said he became acquainted at the Yorkshire Dining Rooms, by presenting her with a handsome watch. Being a lover of the "fragrant weed," lie purchased for himself a meerschaum pipe, for which, however, lie will for a few years, at any rate, have little use, for he was sentenced to twenty-one days' imprisonment, and five years' detention at a reformatory.
1 December 1876 Taken with 463 [George Doidge] to London, to try to get a place as sailor. Left in care of Mr Stoneham, Seaman's Registry, Adelaide Place, London Bridge. School to pay £5 2s 6d for outfit and 15s per week for each boy till they go on board.
12 December 1876 Engaged in the steamship Mediator from Victoria Dock, London, to New Zealand.
24 April [no year given] Joseph Lee calls in the afternoon. Says he is on board a merchant ship and likes the service very much indeed. He sails again on the Sardinian for the Brazils.
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