| No. in Admissions RegisterL | 499 |
| Age: | 13 |
| Whence received: | Warwick County Prison |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Brown |
| Eyes colour: | Hazel |
| Visage: | - |
| Particular marks: | Scar centre of forehead |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Date of admission and term: | 27 January 1874 5 years |
| Late residence: | 14 Portland Row, Leamington, Warwickshire |
| Parish he belongs to: | - |
| Customary work and mode of life: | - |
| Whether illegitimate: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | Imperfectly |
| Offence: | Stealing a pair of boots |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | - |
| Date of sentence, by who and court: | 14 January 1874, Leamington Petty Sessions, E Whelan and G Macken |
| Where imprisoned: | Warwick County Prison |
| Sentence: | 14 days prison (hard labour), 12 strokes of birch, 2 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | None known |
| Length: | - |
| For what: | - |
| Father's name: | James Lowe |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Mother's name: | Frances Lowe |
| Occupation: | Laundress |
| Parents dead? | - |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | - |
| Character of parents | Good |
| Parents' wages: | 14s per week by father |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | 1s per week |
| Parents address: | 17 Portland Row, Leamington, Warwickshire |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | - |
| Person making this return: | - |
17 January 1874 There is a report of the crime in the Warwick and Warwickshire Advertiser Saturday 17 January 1874 p.4 col.5: A CAREER OF CRIME EARLY BEGUN. - A boy of 12 years of age, was brought up in custody, on remand, charged with stealing a pair of boots, value 7s., the property of William Daniel Crofts, bootseller, of Regent Street. - An assistant in the prosecutor's employ, named James Dexter, said that at twelve o'clock on the 6th. Inst., he missed a pair of boots from the shop front, where he had hung them between nine and ten o'clock the same morning. Between eleven and twelve o'clock he saw the prisoner outside the window handling some boots. He went out to him and told him to go about his business. - A small boy, named James Ellis, said he saw Lowe take the boots, and make off up Satchwell Street. - When apprehended two days subsequently by P.S. Edwards, prisoner confessed to having taken the property; and now pleaded guilty. - Superintendent Land said there was another charge against the prisoner of stealing a pair of leggings from a shop door. After becoming possessed of the property, prisoner and another boy went off to Birmingham, where they disposed of it, and the police had failed to recover it. The prisoner had been before that court on previous occasions for robbing gardens. The father of the boy, a labouring man, made the humiliating confession, from a parental point of view, that his son was a very bad boy, and beyond his control. - The Bench sent the whimpering child to gaol for 14 days, ordering him to received 12 strokes with a birch rod, and after the expiration of the period to go to a reformatory for five years. - The father was told he would have to contribute towards his son's maintenance, which he expressed his willingness to do.
30 July 1882 Calls and is respectably dressed. Lives at 17 Portland Row, Leamington
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