| No. in Admissions Register: | 477 |
| Age: | 14 |
| Whence received: | Borough Prison [Birmingham] |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Dark brown |
| Eyes colour: | Grey |
| Visage: | - |
| Particular marks: | Scar on left side of neck |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Date of admission and term: | 9 November 1872 5 years |
| Late residence: | 2 court Conybere Street, Birmingham |
| Parish he belongs to: | Birmingham |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Caster |
| Whether illegitimate: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | - |
| Offence: | Vagrancy |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | - |
| Date of sentence, by who and court: | 10 October 1872, Moor Street, T C S Kynnersley |
| Where imprisoned: | Birmingham Borough Prison |
| Sentence: | 1 month prison (hard labour), 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | Two |
| Length: | 1) 2 months; 2) 2 months |
| For what: | 1) Assault; 2) Vagrancy |
| Father's name: | John Green |
| Occupation: | - |
| Mother's name: | Elizabeth Green |
| Occupation: | - |
| Parents dead? | Neither |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Good |
| Character of parents | Good |
| Parents' wages: | 30s per week |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | No sum mentioned |
| Parents address: | 2 court Conybere Street, Birmingham |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | - |
| Person making this return: | - |
11 October 1872 There is a report of the offence in the Birmingham Daily Post Friday 11 October 1872 p.6 col.6: THREE YOUNG REPROBATES. - James Green (14), Hospital Street; Patrick Burke (12), Weaman Street, and John Reynolds (16) Weaman Street, were charged with sleeping out. Police-constable Foster stated that he found the three boys sleeping on some shavings under the stairs of an unoccupied house in the White Lion Yard, Digbeth, at ten o'clock on the previous evening. The parents of the boys now attended Court, and gave each of them a very bad character. Burke, who had appeared at the Court on four previous occasions, was sent to gaol for fourteen days, and afterwards to Longsight Industrial School for four years; Green who had .been twice previously convicted, was sent to gaol for one month with hard labour, and afterwards to Saltley Reformatory for five years; and Reynolds, who had appeared at the Court twice previously, was sent to gaol for three months with hard labour.
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