| No. in Admissions Register: | 512 |
| Age: | 14 |
| Whence received: | Stafford |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | Sallow |
| Hair colour: | Brown |
| Eyes colour: | Brown |
| Visage: | - |
| Particular marks: | - |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Date of admission and term: | 27 May 1874 5 years |
| Late residence: | Hanley |
| Parish he belongs to: | Hanley |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Forge boy |
| Whether illegitimate: | No |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Not at all |
| Writes: | Not at all |
| Offence: | Stealing 5s |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Bad company |
| Date of sentence, by who and court: | 27 April 1874, Hanley Petty Sessions, E F Bodley and C Adams |
| Where imprisoned: | Stafford County Prison |
| Sentence: | 1 month prison (hard labour), 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | None |
| Length: | - |
| For what: | - |
| Father's name: | - |
| Occupation: | - |
| Mother's name: | Eliza Shenton |
| Occupation: | Charwoman |
| Parents dead? | Father |
| Survivor married again? | Not |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Good |
| Character of parents | Good |
| Parents' wages: | 2s or 3s per week |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | Not able to pay |
| Parents address: | Brook Street, Hanley |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | - |
| Person making this return: | - |
27 April 1874 There is a report of the crime in the Staffordshire Sentinel Monday 27 April 1874 p.2 co.3: NAUGHTY BOYS BE GOOD. - Jonathan Shenton, a boy of fourteen, who looked like a regular " street arab," was charged with stealing two half-crowns and one sixpence, the money of William Myatt, carter, Brook-street, on the 27th instant.-the boy, who lived near the prosecutor's house,. was in the habit running in occasionally. The money was placed in an open drawer, and the prisoner, who was known to be a naughty boy, was suspected and taken into custody by P.C. Smith. To him he admitted that he bad taken the money and hid it in a wall. The officer went and found the money in hole in the wall near Messrs. Worthington's works.-The mother of the boy said his father was not living, and she could not manage him. She had five other children to look after.-The Bench sentenced the boy to one month's imprisonment at Stafford, and five years-in a reformatory.
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