| No. in Admissions Register: | 538 |
| Age: | 14 |
| Whence received: | Stafford |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | Dark |
| Hair colour: | Brown |
| Eyes colour: | Brown |
| Visage: | - |
| Particular marks: | - |
| State of health: | - |
| Able-bodied? | - |
| Date of admission and term: | 13 August 1875 4 years |
| Late residence: | Nuneaton |
| Parish he belongs to: | Tamworth |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Miner |
| Whether illegitimate: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | Imperfectly |
| Offence: | Stealing a box |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | - |
| Date of sentence, by who and court: | 16 July 1875, Tamworth Petty Sessions, J Bailey and J Bradbury |
| Where imprisoned: | Stafford |
| Sentence: | 28 days prison (hard labour), 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | One |
| Length: | 1 month |
| For what: | Stealing money |
| Father's name: | - |
| Occupation: | - |
| Mother's name: | Ann Ratcliffe |
| Occupation: | Needlewoman |
| Parents dead? | - |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Good |
| Character of parents | Honest, sober, and good health |
| Parents' wages: | About 30s per week |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | 2s per week |
| Parents address: | Weddington Terrace, Nuneaton |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | - |
| Person making this return: | - |
17 July 1875 There is a report of the crime in the Tamworth Herald Saturday 17 July 1875 p.4 col.4: ROBBERY BY A LAD.-At the Police Station, yesterday. before J. Bailey, Esq. (Mayor), and L. Bradbury, Esq, William Ratcliffe alias Marlow, a poorly-clad lad of 14, whose parents live at Nuneaton, was charged with stealing, on tbe 14th July, a box, value 6d., and 1d., the property of Elizabeth Littler, widow and grocer, of Lichfield Street, Tamworth.- Prosecutrix deposed that at half-past eight o'clock on the morning of Wednesday last, the 14th July, she saw the prisoner in her shop, and asked him what he wanted. He made no reply, but ran out, and did not stop till out of sight. She noticed that he had something bulky concealed under his coat, but did not know what it was. She had a collecting box for the restoration of Tamworth Church safe in her shop a short time before, but when he had gone she missed it. It contained one penny. The pieces produced were in the remains of the box.-P.C. Joseph Peters deposed that on the 14th inst. he went in search of the prisoner, and met him on the Albert Road. In answer to the charge of stealing a box from Mrs. Littler's shop, the prisoner admitted it, and said he should not have done so if a lad had not sent him in, and who gave him a penny for so doing. He said he had hid the box down by Lady Bridge. Witness then took him into custody.-lnspector Woollaston said the prisoner told that the lad who was with him smashed tbe box up, and hid it by Lady Bridge. Witness went there and found the fragments produced, bearing Mrs. Littler's name.-Prisoner, against whom there was a previous conviction, elected to be tried by the magistrates, and was committed to the House of Correction for one month, and at the expiration of that time to be sent to a Reformatory for four years. In passing sentence, the Mayor endeavoured to impress upon the prisoner that the bench sent him to a Reformatory in order that he might be made a man of. Prisoner, on hearing the sentence, burst into a flood of tears.
6 December 1888 Ratcliffe visited the school this day
26 January 1895 Ratcliffe visited the school this day
6 October 1903 Ratcliffe visited the school this day
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