| No. in Admissions Register: | 533 |
| Age: | 13 |
| Whence received: | Birmingham Gaol |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | Pale |
| Hair colour: | Dark brown |
| Eyes colour: | Grey |
| Visage: | - |
| Particular marks: | Small moles on left cheek |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Date of admission and term: | 24 March 1875 5 years |
| Late residence: | 8 court 4 house Suffolk Street, Birmingham |
| Parish he belongs to: | Birmingham |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Errand boy |
| Whether illegitimate: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | Imperfectly |
| Offence: | Stealing 5 watches |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Neglect of parents |
| Date of sentence, by who and court: | 11 March 1875, Birmingham Police Court, T C S Kynnersley |
| Where imprisoned: | Birmingham Borough Prison |
| Sentence: | 14 days prison (hard labour), 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | None |
| Length: | - |
| For what: | - |
| Father's name: | William Pugh |
| Occupation: | Tailor |
| Mother's name: | Esther Pugh |
| Occupation: | Stay maker |
| Parents dead? | Neither |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Well-treated |
| Character of parents | Good |
| Parents' wages: | About 30s per week |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | Not stated |
| Parents address: | 8 court 4 house Suffolk Street, Birmingham |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | |
| Person making this return: | - |
12 March 1875 There is a report of the crime in the Birmingham Daily Post Friday 12 March 1875 p.6 col.2: IMPUDE'NT THEFT OF WATCHES FROM NEW STREET STATION.-- Arthur Hitchmough (15) errand boy, Balsall Heath Road, and Henry Pugh (13), labourer, Court, Suffolk Street, were charged with stealing five gold watches, value £37., the property of the Midland Railway Company. - Mr. Charles Beale (Beale, Marigold, and Beale) appeared to prosecute on behalf of the company, and stated that a number of parcels containing gold watches were entrusted with the Midland Railway Company at the beginning of the present month for transit from Cornwall, and on the night of the 3rd instant they were brought to New Street Railway Station, Birmingham. Here they were placed in a barrow and taken to the parcels office, but in the course of removal, one of the parcels containing five watches -each valued at £8. - was inadvertently left lying in the truck. It was afterwards found that they had been stolen, and on enquiry it was discovered that Pugh had pawned one of the watches in the Parade, and the other prisoner had entrusted two of the missing watches to pawnbrokers carrying on business in Coleshill Street. When arrested by Detective-sergeant Timmins, the other two watches were found in Pugh's possession. The boys had invented most plausible stories in order to dispel any suspicion on the part of the pawnbrokers. Hitchmough - who gave the name of Cope - had produced a letter purporting to be written by his mother, to the effect that she was very ill, and unable to pawn the watch herself, and had therefore entrusted it with her son. The letter was signed "Mrs. Cope, 8, Prospect Row." On the second occasion the boy told the pawnbroker that his mother was very ill, and that he did not wish the neighbours to know that they had been compelled to pawn the watch. - Prisoners pleaded guilty, and were each sent to gaol for fourteen days with hard labour, and ordered to be afterwards detained at a Reformatory School for live years.
21 October 1878 Licensed
18 September [no year given] Appears to be doing very well
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