| No. in Admissions Register: | 109 |
| Date of admission: | 26 June 1857 |
| Whence received: | Chester City Gaol |
| By whom brought: | The governor of Chester Gaol |
| On what terms | Committed |
| Friends interested in him: | - |
| Description: | |
| Height: | - |
| Figure: | - |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Dark brown |
| Eyes colour: | Grey |
| Perfect vision? | Yes |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Sound intellect? | Yes |
| Use of all limbs? | Yes |
| Had cow or small pox? | Vaccinated |
| Particular marks: | - |
| Cutaneous disorder? | No |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | No |
| Subject to fits? | No |
| Age last birthday: | 14 |
| Illegitimate? | No |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | Chester |
| Has resided: | at Chester |
| Parish to which he belongs: | St Mary's, Chester |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Has worked at a brickyard; apprenticed to a shoemaker by the Poor Law Guardians, Chester |
| Schools attended: | Chester Workhouse School |
| By whom and where employed: | Unknown |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Fairly |
| Writes: | Imperfectly |
| Cyphers: | - |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | Stealing a hat |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Not known |
| Date of sentence: | 13 April 1857 |
| Where convicted: | Chester Borough Court, before Peter Aston? and Colonel john Lloyd |
| Sentence: | 14 days in prison with hard labour, 2 years at Saltley |
| Where imprisoned: | - |
| Previous committals and convictions: | stealing potatoes in Chester, 4 days prison |
| Father's name: | - |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | - |
| Mother's name: | - |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | - |
| Father's character: | - |
| Mother's character: | - |
| Parents dead? | Both dead |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | - |
| Character of parents: | - |
| Parents' wages: | - |
| Weekly amount parents will pay: | - |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | - |
| Relatives to communicate with: | His aunt, Sarah Banks, Harden Castle Entry, Lower Bridge Street, Chester |
| Person making this return: | Henry Steel, Governor, City Gaol, Chester |
| Estimate of character on admission: | Seems well-disposed but rather noisy |
| Character on discharge: | - |
| When and how left the Reformatory: | - |
18 October 1856 There is an unusually flowery report of his previous crime in the Chester Chronicle Saturday 18 October 1856 p.8 col.4: A HAPPY LAND. - On Tuesday last, a fine instance of the blessedness of being an inhabitant of a Christian land came before the magistrates. Six poor boys were brought before the bench, charged with stealing some potatoes from the garden of a Mr Read, near the Railway Station. One only of the boys was seen in the garden and taken in the act of theft. Five of them were ordered to stand back, and the prisoner, Charles Hallows, was proceeded against. The poor lad was little more substantial in appearance than a shadow, his feet were not disguised in shoes, and his general toilette was of the most unsatisfactory nature. In his face, however, was none of the wicked bravado which is so often seen in the countenances of juvenile offenders, but a settled expression of melancholy made a goodly-formed visage assume the care-worn aspect of older years. - Magistrate: Where is your father? - Prisoner: Dead. - Magistrate: Where is your mother? - Prisoner: Dead. - Magistrate: How old are you? Prisoner: 15. - Magistrate: Who do you live with? - Prisoner: No one. - Magistrate: What! Do you live alone? - Prisoner: Yes. - Magistrate: Where do you lodge? - Prisoner: In Jonas Bond's brick kiln. - This answer created an audible expression of feeling by the parties in court, and we wished that this poor boy's tale of woe, as he told it amid bitter tears, had been heard by some of those philanthropic individuals who traverse the seas to distant lands in order that they may find scope for their benevolent feelings. The lad was remanded to gaol until Saturday, in order that the magistrates might consider what to do with him. How earnestly is he able to sing - "I thank the goodness and the grace, Which on my birth have smiled, And made me in this Christian land, A happy English child."
18 April 1857 There is a brief report of his crime in the Chester Observer Saturday 18 April 1857 p.7 col.4: Charles Hallows, a young lad, was charged by PC Snell, with stealing a sailor's cap, from Mr Buckley's tripe standing on Saturday night. To be imprisoned for fourteen days, and at the expiration of that time, to be sent to a Reformatory for two years.
1 September 1857 name on Good Conduct List
27 March 1858 detecting in keeping and spending part of the money given him to fetch ham
26 July 1858 about this date frequent complaints made by the shoemaker of his careless work
3 January 1859 complained of pain in his shoulders and chest which was thought to arise from indigestion which turned out to be inflammation, and notwithstanding every remedy and care, he died 10 minutes after 2 o'clock 10 January 1859, his last words being "O lord, have mercy on me for Jesus Christ's sake", repeated several times. During his illness he was much troubled with the recollection of the doings of his past life. [he was buried at St Saviour's churchyard on 13 January 1859. His father may have died the previous year - see an obit for a Charles Hallows in Cheshire Observer Saturday 12 January 1856, p.7, col.5. For the neglect by the older Charles Hallows of his family, see Chester Chronicle Saturday 19 November 1853, p.8, col.4]
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