| No. in Admissions Register: | 494 |
| Age: | 14 |
| Whence received: | Stafford |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Brown |
| Eyes colour: | Blue |
| Visage: | - |
| Particular marks: | - |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Date of admission and term: | 9 April 1873 5 years |
| Late residence: | Sandon, Staffordshire |
| Parish he belongs to: | Sandon |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Gardening |
| Whether illegitimate: | No |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Not at all |
| Writes: | Not at all |
| Offence: | Stealing a flute |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | - |
| Date of sentence, by who and court: | 22 November 1873, Stafford Petty Sessions, W Johnson and T Nugent |
| Where imprisoned: | Stafford |
| Sentence: | 14 days prison (hard labour), 2 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | None |
| Length: | - |
| For what: | - |
| Father's name: | John Swann |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Mother's name: | - |
| Occupation: | - |
| Parents dead? | Mother |
| Survivor married again? | Not |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Indifferent |
| Character of parents | Drunken |
| Parents' wages: | 14s per week and house |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | Considered able to pay 1s per week but won't promise |
| Parents address: | The Lock House, Sandon, Stone |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | - |
| Person making this return: | - |
29 November 1873 There is a report of the offence in the Staffordshire Advertiser Saturday 29 November 1873 p.7 col.2: PETTY THEFTS AT SANDON HALL, - Henry Swan, a boy 15 years of age. employed in the gardens at Sandon Hall, pleaded guilty to stealing a flute and a pound of grapes The thefts were committed at different times during the present month, the flute being taken from the servants' hall and the grapes from the vineries. The Bench sentenced the boy to 34 days' Imprisonment, and ordered that he should, on the expiration of his sentence, be kept in a reformatory for two years.
30 January 1874 Absconded
11 February 1874 There is a letter relating to the absconding from the police in Stone, Staffordshire: Police Office, Stone, February 11th 1874, Sir - Henry Swann - Every possible enquiry has been made, but no trace obtained of the above. The Police Constable at Sandon cannot learn that he has been home to his father's house, but he says it is reported that a married sister in Birmingham whose address is not known has lately gone to America, and the boy is likely to have gone with her. I am sir, Yours truly, Ellis Crisp, Superintendent
20 April 1874 Fetched back from Tividale
15 December 1875 Discharged to home, Sandon, Stone
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