| No. in Admissions Register: | 479 |
| Age: | 12 |
| Whence received: | Stafford Gaol |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Brown |
| Eyes colour: | Brown |
| Visage: | - |
| Particular marks: | - |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Date of admission and term: | 28 March 1873 |
| Late residence: | Hanley |
| Parish he belongs to: | Hanley |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Potter |
| Whether illegitimate: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | - |
| Offence: | Stealing earthenware |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | - |
| Date of sentence, by who and court: | 28 January 1873, Hanley Petty Sessions, F Bodley and W H Yates |
| Where imprisoned: | Stafford County Prison |
| Sentence: | 2 months prison, 4 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | None |
| Length: | - |
| For what: | - |
| Father's name: | - |
| Occupation: | - |
| Mother's name: | Elizabeth Owen |
| Occupation: | Laundress |
| Parents dead? | Father |
| Survivor married again? | Yes, and stepfather dead |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Good |
| Character of parents | Suspicious. Health not very good |
| Parents' wages: | Uncertain |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | None |
| Parents address: | 2 Abbey Street, Kelsall's Court, Hanley |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | - |
| Person making this return: | - |
25 January 1873 The remand hearing involved the whole family (except the boy is not named) and was reported in the Staffordshire Advertiser Saturday 25 January 1873 p.7 col. 4: CHARGES OF ROBBERY AGAINST MOTHER AND DAUGHTER. - Elizabeth Owen, aged twelve years, of Abbey street, was charged with having, on Wednesday evening, stolen 28 lbs of sugar. Police-constable Hansford said he saw the prisoner and a boy on the shafts of a cart at the top of Old Hall-street. He went to see what they were doing, and they ran away. In the cart he found the parcel of sugar produced. He afterwards took the girl into custody, when she said that her mother had taken the sugar from a cart at the top of Well-street, and that she (prisoner) was with her. Prisoner was remanded.- Elizabeth Owen, mother of the above-named prisoner, was afterwards placed in the dock on a charge of having stolen several articles of earthenware, the property of Messrs. Gelson Brothers, manufacturers. Police-sergeant Vickers proved finding the ware at prisoner's house that (Thursday) morning. He asked her to account for it, and she made various statements, which led him to take her into custody. The ware was identified as belonging to the prosecutors, and prisoner was remanded.
1 February 1873 There is a report of the sentence in the Staffordshire Advertiser Saturday 1 February 1873 p.7 col. 2: CHARGE OF STEALING SUGAR.- Richard Tomkinson, a boy 12 years of age, was charged on remand with stealing 28 lbs of sugar, the property of Mr Salmon, wholesale grocer, and also with stealing several pieces of earthenware, the property of Messrs Gelson Brothers. Elizabeth Owen, the boy's mother, was charged with receiving the ware with guilty knowledge. The circumstances have already been reported. The Bench decided that the charge stealing the sugar had not been proved, but for stealing the ware they committed the boy to prison for two months, and ordered that at the end of that time he should be sent to a reformatory for four years. He was convicted of a till robbery at the beginning of January The woman Owen was remanded until Thursday, without bail. (She was brought again on that day. and was discharged after a caution as her future conduct) Mr Richardson complained that the boy Tomklnson had been kept all night in a cell without even so much as a rug to cover him. - Inspector Ogden said the cells were always kept warm, and sometimes prisoners complained they were too warm. There was a bed in the women's cell, and the boy would have been put in that cell had it not been occupied by his mother and sister. The Mayor said he did not suppose for a moment that the police had acted with inhumanity. but he thought the subject should have the attention of the Watch Committee. He would bring it under their notice. Inspector Ogden said he visited the boy in his cell, and the boy made no complaint whatever.
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