| No. in Admissions Register: | 639 |
| Age: | 11 |
| Whence received: | H M Prison Stafford |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | - |
| Hair colour: | - |
| Eyes colour: | - |
| Visage: | - |
| Particular marks: | - |
| State of health: | - |
| Able-bodied? | - |
| Date of admission: | 24 March 1880 |
| Late residence: | Pensnett, Staffordshire |
| Parish he belongs to: | Pensnett |
| Customary work and mode of life: | None |
| Whether illegitimate: | No |
| State of education: | Not at all |
| Reads: | Not at all |
| Writes: | Not at all |
| Offence: | Stealing a purse |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Incited by parents |
| Date of sentence, by whom and court: | 23 February 1880; H Hall and G H Harrison; Brierley Hill Court of Summary Jurisdiction |
| Where imprisoned: | H M Prison Stafford |
| Sentence: | 1 month in prison, 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | 1 |
| Length: | 7 days |
| For what: | Stealing coal |
| Father's name: | George Jones (step-father) |
| Occupation: | Forgeman |
| Mother's name: | Jane Jones |
| Occupation: | - |
| Parents dead? | Father |
| Survivor married again? | Yes |
| Parents' treatment of child: | - |
| Character of parents | - |
| Parents' wages: | about 30s per week |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | They ought to pay 2s per week |
| Parents address: | George Jones, Lower Church Street, Pensnett |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | John Woolaston, Superintendent of Police, Brierley Hill |
| Person making this return: | - |
7 February 1880 There is a brief report of the previous offence in the County Herald and Advertiser for Staffordshire and Worcestershire Saturday 7 February 1880 p.6 col.5: James Harvey (11), and Margaret Williams (11), of Pensnett, were charged with stealing coal from No. 52 pits, Pensnett. There were previous convictions against the boy, and he was fined 10s The other defendant was fined 5s.
28 February 1880 The crime that sent him to Saltley was reported in the County Herald and Advertiser for Staffordshire and Worcestershire Saturday 28 February 1880 p.6 col.1: REQUIRING REFORMATION.- James Harvey, aged eleven, of Pensnett, was charged with stealing a purse, the property of Benjamin Allen, Church-street, Pensnett. -The wife of prisoner said she put the purse (produced) in a cupboard on the 19th inst , and a few hours afterwards she missed it. -Phoebe Mansell, a young woman, said prisoner gave the purse to her telling her he had found it. She gave the purse to Police Constable Hicklin. - The officer was called and proved apprehended prisoner who told him that he found the purse. - Defendant had been convicted five times for stealing coal. - Mr King (magistrates' clerk) said the boy was in such a position that if he did not take the coal his mother thrashed him. The Bench sent the defendant to gaol for a month, at the expiration of which time he was ordered to be sent to a reformatory for fine years.
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