| No. in Admissions Register: | 677 |
| Age: | 10 |
| Whence received: | H M Prison Stafford |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Light brown |
| Eyes colour: | Hazel |
| Visage: | - |
| Particular marks: | Burn mark top of right shoulder |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Date of admission: | 15 October 1881 |
| Late residence: | Walsall |
| Parish he belongs to: | Walsall |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Going to school |
| Whether illegitimate: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Not at all |
| Writes: | Not at all |
| Offence: | Stealing a brush |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | - |
| Date of sentence, by whom and court: | 5 October 1881; F James and T A Negus; Rushall Court of Summary Jurisdiction |
| Where imprisoned: | H M Prison Stafford |
| Sentence: | 10 days in prison, 3 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | 1 |
| Length: | 3 days |
| For what: | Stealing a duck |
| Father's name: | George French |
| Occupation: | - |
| Mother's name: | Phoebe French |
| Occupation: | - |
| Parents dead? | Neither |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Good, as far as can be ascertained |
| Character of parents | The father does not bear a good character either in honesty or sobriety. Health good |
| Parents' wages: | 16s per week |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | The parents do not engage to pay anything and any sum they could be called upon to pay would be of small amount in consequence of the limited earnings of the father and his large family |
| Parents address: | Brewers Cottage, Ryecroft Hill, Walsall |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | Caleb Hackway, Superintendent of Police, Brownhills |
| Person making this return: | Samuel Wilkinson, Walsall, Clerk to the Justices for the Rushall Division of the County of Stafford |
2 July 1881 The previous offence is reported in the Wasall Observer and South Staffordshire Chronicle Saturday 2 July 1881 p.5 col.6: RUSHALL. STEALING A DUCK, - At the Rushall Petty Sessions, on Tuesday, before F. James and S. Stokes, Esqrs., a boy 9 years of age, named George French, 4, Railway Street., Walsall, was charged with having stolen a duck, value 1s., the property of Edward Bliss, Rushall Road. - Walter Elson, gardener, deposed that on Friday, the 17th ult., he was engaged in Mr. Bliss's garden when his attention was called to defendant by the fowls making a noise. He went to see what was the matter, and he saw defendant with the duck in his hands. When defendant saw him he ran away, and threw the duck to a boy much larger than defendant.. Witness followed defendant and caught him. - Mr, James said a beating with a birch rod would be the best punishment for defendant. - Defendant's mother said she had beaten him on the Saturday, and there were marks upon his back then. - Mr. James ordered the boy half-a-dozen stripes, but if it was found that he had been beaten not to administer them - P.C. Lloyd reported that there were no marks whatever upon the lad's back, and he was ordered to be whipped.
8 October 1881 There is a short report of the offence which sent him to Saltley in the Wasall Observer and South Staffordshire Chronicle Saturday 8 October 1881 p.4 col.5: STEALING A BRUSH. - At the Rushall Petty Sessions, on Tuesday, before F. James, S. Stokes. and T. A. Negro, Esqrs., a boy named George French, of Railway Street, Walsall, was charged with stealing a small hair brush. value 6d., the property of John Brawn, Mellish Road. - Complainant stated that defendant, on Sunday last, in company with another boy, came begging, as they did frequently. Soon after they were ions the brush was missed. and complainant pursued them. He found the brush in defendant's pocket. - Defendant was sent to gaol for ten days, and afterwards to be detained in a reformatory for three years.
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