| No. in Admissions Register: | 426 |
| Age: | 13 |
| Whence received: | Stafford Gaol |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Brown |
| Eyes colour: | Grey |
| Visage: | - |
| Particular marks: | - |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Date of admission and term: | 5 March 1870 4 years |
| Late residence: | Stafford |
| Parish he belongs to: | Stafford |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Shoemaking |
| Whether illegitimate: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | Imperfectly |
| Offence: | Stealing a cape |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Bad company |
| Date of sentence, by who and court: | 5 February 1870, Stafford Petty Sessions, T Lucker and T Nugent Esqs |
| Where imprisoned: | Stafford County Prison |
| Sentence: | 1 month prison (hard labour), 4 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | None |
| Length: | - |
| For what: | - |
| Father's name: | - |
| Occupation: | - |
| Mother's name: | Hannah Lowndes |
| Occupation: | Laundress |
| Parents dead? | Father |
| Survivor married again? | No |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Good |
| Character of parents | Honest, sober, good health |
| Parents' wages: | No regular earnings – has parish relief |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | Not able to pay |
| Parents address: | Millbank, Stafford |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | M Berger, Stafford |
| Person making this return: | - |
12 February 1870 The crime was reported in the Staffordshire Advertiser Saturday 12 February 1870 p.7 col.4: JUVENILE OFFENDERS. -Two boys, named Thomas Lowndes, aged 13, and James Emberton, aged 11, pleaded guilty to stealing two cloth caps, the property of John Averill and Joseph Spilsbury, at the parish of Castle Church. Lowndes was sentenced to be imprisoned for one month with hard labour, and afterwards sent to reformatory for four years, his mother being ordered to pay 6d. week towards his maintenance. Emberton was ordered to be whipped. [Emberton, boy 443, joined him in Saltley Reformatory the following year].
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