| No. in Admissions Register: | 372 |
| Date of admission: | 6 January 1868 |
| Whence received: | Stafford Gaol |
| By whom brought: | - |
| On what terms: | - |
| Friends interested in him: | - |
| Description: | |
| Height: | - |
| Figure: | - |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Brown |
| Eyes colour: | Brown |
| Perfect vision? | Yes |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Sound intellect? | Yes |
| Use of all limbs? | Yes |
| Had cow or small pox? | Cowpox |
| Particular marks: | - |
| Cutaneous disorder? | No |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | No |
| Subject to fits? | No |
| Age last birthday: | 13 |
| Illegitimate? | - |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | - |
| Has resided: | Tunstall |
| Parish he belongs to: | - |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Pottery |
| Schools attended: | - |
| By whom and where employed: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | A little |
| Writes: | A little |
| Cyphers: | - |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | Stealing clothing |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | - |
| Date of sentence: | 5 December 1867 |
| Where convicted: | Tunstall before J E Davis |
| Who prosecuted: | - |
| Where imprisoned: | - |
| Sentence: | 1 month prison (hard labour), 4 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals and convictions: | None, but consorting with bad characters |
| Father's name: | - |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | - |
| Mother's name: | Ann Cooper |
| Occupation: | Potter |
| Residence: | Henry Street, Tunstall |
| Father's character: | - |
| Mother's character: | Doubtful |
| Parents dead? | Father |
| Survivor married again? | No |
| Parents' treatment of child: | - |
| Character of parents | - |
| Parents' wages: | 10s per week |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | 1s per week |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | E Scott, Tunstall |
| Relatives to communicate with: | - |
| Person making this return: | - |
| Estimate of character on admission: | - |
| Character on discharge: | - |
| When and how left the Reformatory: | - |
[brother to 373 William Cooper. To see his record click here ]
7 December 1867 There is a report of the crime in the Staffordshire Sentinel and Commercial and General Advertiser Saturday 7 December 1867 p.6 col.3: YOUNG HOUSEBREAKERS. - James Cooper, aged I 3, and William Cooper, aged 11, brothers, were charged with breaking and entering the dwelling-house of William Poole, potter, Tunstall, and stealing therefrom a pair of trousers, a waistcoat, petticoat, and other articles. On Wednesday the prosecutor and his wife left the house for a short time, and, on their return they found that somebody had been in. Proceeding upstairs, they discovered that the articles named had been stolen. Prisoners pledged the things the same day at a pawnshop, and were found the same night at the theatre. The elder boy ran away, but the younger one was at once taken. He acknowledged to the theft. The mother of the prisoners was called, and she said that she did not know anything of the matter; she was at work in a manufactory at the time; she was a widow. The lads presented a very dirty and utterly neglected appearance, Mr. Davis committed them to prison for a month, intimating that after that time they would be sent to a reformatory for four years [A report in another newspaper says that they broke into the house of William Ball, in Henry Street, Tunstall, which was next door to their house, and they got in by using their mother's house key]
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