| No. in Admissions Register: | 402 |
| Age: | 12 |
| Whence received: | Birmingham Gaol |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Brown |
| Eyes colour: | Grey |
| Visage: | - |
| Particular marks: | Scars and mole on body |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Date of admission and term: | 14 April 1869 5 years |
| Late residence: | Royal Oak, Duddeston Mill Road, Birmingham |
| Parish he belongs to: | Birmingham |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Filer |
| Whether illegitimate: | No |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | Imperfectly |
| Offence: | Stealing a pair of boots |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | - |
| Date of sentence, by who and court: | 1 April 1869, T C S Kynnersley, Moor Street |
| Where imprisoned: | Birmingham Borough Gaol |
| Sentence: | 14 days prison (hard labour), 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | 2 |
| Length: | (1) 7 days, (2) 3 days and whipped |
| For what: | (1) throwing stones, (2) stealing meat |
| Father's name: | William Dudley |
| Occupation: | Locksmith |
| Mother's name: | Priscilla Dudley |
| Occupation: | Beerhouse keeper |
| Parents dead? | - |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | - |
| Character of parents | - |
| Parents' wages: | 30s [per week] |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | - |
| Parents address: | - |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | G Glossop |
| Person making this return: | T C S K [Kynnersley] |
2 April 1869 There is a report of the offence in the Birmingham Daily Gazette Friday 2 April 1869 p.3 col.2: STEALING CLOGS. -William Dudley (12), labourer, Duddeston Road, Joseph Hughes (14), labourer, 4 court, Tanter Street, and Edward Jordan (10), Lichfield Street, were charged with stealing two pairs of clogs, value 4s. 8d., the property of William Hancox, clog maker, Coleshill Street, and George Kingston (75), fish hawker, was charged with receiving the same, well knowing them to have been stolen. The prisoner Dudley was seen on the previous evening to break a pane of glass in prosecutor's window, and take the clogs in question. He was shortly afterwards apprehended by Police-constable Brown, to whom he made statements which led to the arrest of the other prisoners. At the station, the officer found a novel in Dudley's pocket, entitled "The Forty Thieves," and another called "Jack the Highwayman." Dudley, who received a bad character from his mother, was sentenced to 14 days' imprisonment, and at the close of that term to be sent to a reformatory for five years. The other prisoners were discharged, after having been severely reprimanded.
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