| No. in Admissions Register: | 592 |
| Age: | 15 |
| Whence received: | Stafford |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | Sallow |
| Hair colour: | Brown |
| Eyes colour: | Grey |
| Visage: | - |
| Particular marks: | - |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Date of admission and term: | 27 December 1877 3 years |
| Late residence: | Goldenhill, Tunstall, Staffordshire |
| Parish he belongs to: | Goldenhill |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Driver in coal pit |
| Whether illegitimate: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | Imperfectly |
| Offence: | Stealing 7s |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | - |
| Date of sentence, by who and court: | 27 November 1877, Burslem Police Court, H C Greenwood |
| Where imprisoned: | Stafford |
| Sentence: | 1 month (hard labour), 3 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | None |
| Length: | - |
| For what: | - |
| Father's name: | - |
| Occupation: | - |
| Mother's name: | Ann Jackson |
| Occupation: | Charwoman |
| Parents dead? | Father |
| Survivor married again? | No |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Good |
| Character of parents | Good |
| Parents' wages: | About 10s per week |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | 1s per week |
| Parents address: | Booth Street, Goldenhill, Tunstall |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | - |
| Person making this return: | - |
27 November 1877 There is a report of the crime in the Staffordshire Sentinel 27 November 1877 o,3 col.3: A YOUNG GOLDENHILLS THIEF.-William Jackson, sixteen, was charged with stealing seven shillings from the till of Mr. J. Jeffreys', cook shop, at Goldenhill, on the 26th inst. He was further charged with stealing a bottle of ginger ale.-A boy named Lightfoot, said that the prisoner went into the prosecutor's shop and behind the counter. The prisoner said he was going to get some coal. Shortly after the prisoner ran out, Mrs. Jeffreys following him. Mrs. Jeffreys caught witness by mistake. Eliza Jefferys said that she heard a noise in the shop at about three o'clock on Monday afternoon. She heard the drawer open, and ran to the door of the shop. She saw the prisoner running away. She caught Lightfoot, who was a companion of the prisoner, and dragged him into the shop. He denied having taken any money, saying that it was the prisoner. She afterwards counted the money in the drawer, and was sure he had taken at least seven shillings.-P.C. Moore apprehended the prisoner, who denied the theft.-The boy had frequently committed small thefts which had been compromised.- Prisoner pleaded not guilty.-He was sent to prison for a month, and afterwards to a reformatory for three years.
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