| No. in Admissions Register: | 651 |
| Age: | 13 |
| Whence received: | H M Prison Birmingham |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Brown |
| Eyes colour: | Gret |
| Visage: | Oval |
| Particular marks: | Scar on forehead |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Date of admission: | 18 October 1880 |
| Late residence: | 2 house Barford Street, Birmingham |
| Parish he belongs to: | Birmingham |
| Customary work and mode of life: | None |
| Whether illegitimate: | No |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Second Standard |
| Writes: | Second Standard |
| Offence: | Stealing a purse and 10s |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Bad companions |
| Date of sentence, by whom and court: | 19 July 1880; Samuel Timmins and G Goodrich |
| Where imprisoned: | H M Prison Birmingham |
| Sentence: | 3 months hard labour in prison, 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | - |
| Length: | - |
| For what: | - |
| Father's name: | - |
| Occupation: | - |
| Mother's name: | Eliza Wood |
| Occupation: | Harness stitcher |
| Parents dead? | Father |
| Survivor married again? | No |
| Parents' treatment of child: | - |
| Character of parents | - |
| Parents' wages: | - |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | - |
| Parents address: | 2 house Barford Street, Birmingham |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | - |
| Person making this return: | - |
[The boy's forename is initially given as Heaverick in the Admissions Register and Haverick in the Register's own index, but other sources suggest the correct form is as given at the top of this page.]
20 July 1880 There is a report of the crime in the Birmingham Daily Post Tuesday 20 July 1880 p.4 col.6: POCKET PICKING. - Heaverill Wood, aged 12, who had three times previously been before the magistrates, was sentenced to three months imprisonment and to five years detention in a reformatory school for picking pockets in the Market Hall. Mr. Timmins strongly censured the boy's mother who was present in court, for not looking more carefully after her son.
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