| No. in Admissions Register: | 468 |
| Age | 14 |
| Whence received: | Stafford |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Brown |
| Eyes colour: | Grey |
| Visage: | - |
| Particular marks: | - |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Date of admission and term: | 20 March 1872 3 years |
| Late residence: | Burton upon Trent |
| Parish he belongs to: | Burton upon Trent |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Working at a brewery |
| Whether illegitimate: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | Imperfectly |
| Offence: | Stealing wine, etc |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Bad company |
| Date of sentence, by who and court: | 20 February 1872, Burton Petty Sessions, C W Lyon and J O Lovett |
| Where imprisoned: | Stafford |
| Sentence: | 1 month prison (hard labour), 3 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | One |
| Length: | 7 days and whipping |
| For what: | Stealing a walking stick |
| Father’s name: | William Hoose |
| Occupation: | Labourer at brewery |
| Mother's name: | Fanny Hoose |
| Occupation: | - |
| Parents dead? | Neither |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents’ treatment of child: | Good |
| Character of parents | Honest, sober, and good health |
| Parents’ wages: | 17s per week |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | 1s per week |
| Parents address: | - |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | - |
| Person making this return: | - |
24 February 1872 There is a report of the crime in the Staffordshire Advertiser Saturday 24 February 1872 p.7 col.3: A BAND OF JUVENILE THIEVES. - Francis Wardle, of Union Street, Henry Baxter and Arthur Baxter, sons of a shoemaker in High Street, George Hoose, of Stanley Street, James Gavan, of New Street . and John Stephen Harlock. cooper's apprentice, were brought up on custody - Wardle charged with four robberies, Henry Baxter with three. Arthur Baxter with one, Harlock with one. Hoose with two, and Gavan with two. Mr Wilson defended the Baxters, and Mr. Stevenson appeared for Harlock. Two charges only were gone into, vis . those of stealing, on the 14th inst. a pound cake, from the shop of Mrs Heath, baker and confectioner, High-street; and, on the 10th inst, stealing two bottles of British wine and a tin of potted salmon, from the shop of Mr Bates, grocer, Station-street. The first charge was against Wardle, Gavan, and Harlock only, and it was proved that when the pound cake was missed suspicion fell upon the prisoners, who were in company near the shop They were accordingly apprehended, and on their being charged. Gavan said that Wardle had taken the cake from Mrs Heath's window and afterwards divided it with himself and Harlock Wardle admitted that Gavan's statement was true, and Harlock confessed to having lent him his knife with which to take the cake. In the second case Henry Baxter, Francis Wardle, George Hoose, and Arthur Baxter, were charged only, and from the evidence of three youths, who were watching the movements of the prisoners, it appeared that while prosecutor was busy attending to customers Henry Baxter and Hoose went Into the shop for some sweets, and on coming out again the elder Baxter took two bottles of wine from a shelf, and the younger Baxter a tin of potted salmon from the shop window. The prisoners were afterwards seen in Union street drinking the wine. Henry Baxter had been previously convicted for wilful damage to a door, Hoose had suffered seven days' imprisonment and been flogged for theft, and Harlock. who was described as a very violent youth, had been three times forgiven for different offences in Burton, and In 1869 charged with stealing apples at Winshill, Derbyshire. Gavan was the son a run-away glazier, and had for some time past been allowed to run wild in the streets, and Wardle, who was the son of a respectable widow, had, it appeared, been educated at several the local grammar schools. The sentence of the Bench was that Gavan and Hoose be sent to gaol for one month and three years to a Reformatory. Wandle and Henry Baxter each to gaol for one month, Arthur Baxter to fourteen days' imprisonment, and Harlock, who pleaded not guilty and elected to have his case tried elsewhere, to take his trial at the Adjourned Quarter Sessions.
1 January 1875 Licensed to work with his father. Stanley Street, Burton
9 October 1875 Called at the school. Doing well at a brewery
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