| No. in Admissions Register: | 508 |
| Age: | 14 |
| Whence received: | Birmingham Prison |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Brown |
| Eyes colour: | Grey |
| Visage: | - |
| Particular marks: | Scar left side of forehead and left eyebrow |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | - |
| Date of admission and term: | 9 May 1874 5 years |
| Late residence: | 14 court 6 house Bishopgate Street, Birmingham |
| Parish he belongs to: | Birmingham |
| Customary work and mode of life: | House painting |
| Whether illegitimate: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Not at all |
| Writes: | Not at all |
| Offence: | Stealing 4 studs, 4 links, and 2 pairs of boots |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | - |
| Date of sentence, by who and court: | 27 April 1874, Birmingham Police Court, T C S Kynnersley |
| Where imprisoned: | Birmingham |
| Sentence: | 14 days prison (hard labour), 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | None |
| Length: | - |
| For what: | - |
| Father's name: | Edward Scandrett |
| Occupation: | Master painter |
| Mother's name: | Emma Scandrett |
| Occupation: | - |
| Parents dead? | - |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Kind |
| Character of parents | Sober, honest, and industrious |
| Parents' wages: | 50s per week |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | - |
| Parents address: | 14 court 6 house Bishopgate Street, Birmingham |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | - |
| Person making this return: | - |
28 April 1874 There is a brief report of the crime in the Birmingham Daily Post Tuesday 28 April 1874 p.6 col.4: THEFT. - Edward Scandrett (14), painter, Bishopgate Street, was charged with stealing two gold shirt studs, shirt links, and two pairs of. boots, belonging to Joseph Wilton, saddle and harness maker, Broad Street.- Prisoner was sentenced to fourteen days' imprisonment, and five years detention at a reformatory.
17 November 1874 Absconded
17 April 1875 Caught by police and brought back to school
15 October 1876 Absconded
24 July 1877 Charged with assaulting the police and fined
15 March 1881 Writes to say he cannot find anything to do
21 April 1884 Scandrett returned to a life of crime, and an offence is reported in the Birmingham Daily Post Monday 21 April 1884 p.6 col.6: THEFTS FROM VOID HOUSES. - Edward Scandrett (25), painter, Washington Street, and Samuel Wright (25), St. Martin's Street, painter, were charged with stealing on the 5th March several locks, a bell, and other fittings from void houses in Gillott Road and Stanmore Road. - Mr. Fitzgerald prosecuted, and Mr. Daly defended Scandrett. -The fittings were removed from the doors and walls of the houses, and Wright afterwards sold some of the locks to Mrs. Lester, Tennant Street, and the bell was found in Scandrett's house. - Wright stated that he got the locks from Scandrett merely for the purpose of selling them. - Detective-inspector Marriott apprehended the prisoners. - Scandrett was found guilty, and sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment and one year's police supervision. Wright was found not guilty.
14 February 1889 There is a cutting from the Birmingham Daily Post attached to the Admissions Register. The note wrongly gives the newspaper date as 15 February. It is in fact from Thursday 14 February 1889 p.6 col.7: FAILING TO REPORT HIMSELF. - Edward Scandrett (29), painter, William Street, was charged with failng to comply with his terms of supervision. The accused is a relative of the rotorious Alfred Scandrett, who was executed at Hereford last year.-Detective-superintendent Black asked for a remand till to-day. The prisoner was a housebreaker, and had not reported himself for some time. The remand was granted.
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