| No. in Admissions Register: | 500 |
| Age: | 14 |
| Whence received: | Birmingham |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Dark brown |
| Eyes colour: | Grey |
| Visage: | - |
| Particular marks: | Scar top of forehead |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Date of admission and term: | 7 February 1874 5 years |
| Late residence: | 1 court Wheeler Street, Lozells, Birmingham |
| Parish he belongs to: | Birmingham |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Printing |
| Whether illegitimate: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | Imperfectly |
| Offence: | Stealing 20s |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | - |
| Date of sentence, by who and court: | 19 January 1874, Birmingham Police Court, T C S Kynnersley |
| Where imprisoned: | Borough Prison, Birmingham |
| Sentence: | 21 days prison (hard labour), 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | None known |
| Length: | - |
| For what: | - |
| Father's name: | James Lowe (stepfather) |
| Occupation: | Gold and silver roller |
| Mother's name: | Elizabeth Lowe |
| Occupation: | Laundress |
| Parents dead? | Own father |
| Survivor married again? | Yes |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Said he was ill-treated by stepfather |
| Character of parents | Good |
| Parents' wages: | 30s per week by father |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | Not stated |
| Parents address: | 4 or 5 King Alfred's Place, Broad Street, Birmingham |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | - |
| Person making this return: | - |
20 January 1874 There is a brief report of the crime in the Birmingham Daily Post Tuesday 20 January 1874 p.6 col.5: ROBBING A FATHER-IN-LAW. - George Hayward (14), painter, King Alfred's Place, was charged with stealing a sovereign belonging to his father-in-law, James Lowe, with whom he lived. The sovereign was taken from a bag containing fourteen sovereigns. - The prisoner was sentenced to twenty-one days' imprisonment and five years' detention in a .Reformatory.
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