| No. in Admissions Register: | 689 |
| Age: | 12 |
| Whence received: | H M Prison Derby |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | Pale |
| Hair colour: | Light |
| Eyes colour: | Blue |
| Visage: | Oval |
| Particular marks: | Scar on centre of forehead |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Date of admission: | 3 February 1882 |
| Late residence: | Casson Street, Ironville, Derbyshire |
| Parish he belongs to: | Alfreton |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Schoolboy |
| Whether illegitimate: | No |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | Imperfectly |
| Offence: | Unlawfully wounding (stabbed a collier aged 19 years with a clasp knife) |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Quarelling with the prosecutor |
| Date of sentence, by whom and court: | 4 January 1882; Quarter Sessions, Derby |
| Where imprisoned: | H M Prison Derby |
| Sentence: | 1 month in prison, 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | None |
| Length: | - |
| For what: | - |
| Father's name: | Alfred Stollard |
| Occupation: | Labourer at ironworks |
| Mother's name: | Sarah Stollard |
| Occupation: | - |
| Parents dead? | Both living |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Neglected |
| Character of parents | Honest and sober but short of energy |
| Parents' wages: | 23s per week at present time |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | Will make an offer. 2s |
| Parents address: | Casson Street, Ironville, Derbyshire |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | John Cooke, Alfreton |
| Person making this return: | J Cooke, Superintendent, Alfreton |
6 January 1882 There is a report of the crime in the Derbyshire Advertiser and Journal 6 January 1882 p.6 col.4: ALFRETON. PETTY SESSIONS, Monday, Jan. 2. - William Stollard, 13 years of age, was charged with maliciously cutting and wounding George Jepson, at Ironville, on the 21st ult. - Complainant said he was standing in the street on the night in question with some companions, when his little brother, who had just come from Stoilard, said Stollard wanted him to go and steal something. Complainant forbad his going. Stollard then came up and began to swear and call complainant names. Complainant then told him to go, and struck him on the back. Defendant then picked up cinders to throw at complainant, but these complainant took from him. following him up as he continued to do so. Defendant then opened a knife and told complainant he had better come again. He went towards him and swung his arm round and struck him in the back. Complainant did not know he was stabbed. He soon, however, felt blood trickling down his trousers, and he went back to his companions and said he was "struck." On one of them putting his hand down his back, he drew it out partly covered with blood. He was taken home and attended to by Dr. Campbell. - Dr. Campbell said he found a punctured wound in complainant's back, apparently caused by some sharp instrument The wound was much swollen, and had bled very freely. Witness dressed the wound, and next day complainant seemed better. In a few days inflammatory symptoms appeared, and he had since been very ill. He had been brought from bed to give his evidence. He would be several weeks before he was well. - Police-constable Harlow said that when he arrested prisoner he ascertained from his father that the boy had admitted using a knife, and had given it to him (the father), and he had thrown it into the reservoir. - Committed tor trial at the Quarter Sessions.
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