| No. in Admissions Register: | 611 |
| Age: | 11 |
| Whence received: | Stafford Prison |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | - |
| Hair colour: | - |
| Eyes colour: | - |
| Visage: | - |
| Particular marks: | - |
| State of health: | - |
| Able-bodied? | - |
| Date of admission: | 29 June 1878 |
| Late residence: | Birmingham |
| Parish he belongs to: | Birmingham |
| Customary work and mode of life: | None |
| Whether illegitimate: | No |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | Imperfectly |
| Offence: | Stealing pigeons |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Bad disposition and bad companions |
| Date of sentence, by whom and court: | 1 June 1878; R Heaton and J Kempson; West Bromwich Petty Sessions |
| Where imprisoned: | H M Prison Stafford |
| Sentence: | 2 months in prison, 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | One,in May 1877 |
| Length: | Fined 10s 6d (juvenile offender; money paid) |
| For what: | Stealing a chicken |
| Father's name: | Bernard O'Donnell |
| Occupation: | Stamper |
| Mother's name: | Mary O'Donnell |
| Occupation: | Own housdehold duties |
| Parents dead? | - |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Good, I hear |
| Character of parents | Both parents appear tidy people, and are spoken well of by their neighbours. Their health appears to be good. |
| Parents' wages: | From 16s to 30s per week (as given to me by the father). I have pressed him to give me the address of his employer, but he declines to say where he works, fearing that enquiries by the police might cause his employer to discharge him. The above amount might be earned now - trade is bad. |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | 1s 6d per week is offered. 2s per week would not be too much, I think, for him to pay |
| Parents address: | 36 court 1 house Great Russell Street, Birmingham |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | P C Charles Kibbler, agent for reformatory schools, Police Station, Moor Street, Birmingham |
| Person making this return: | The parents have but one little girl dependent upon them. I saw a dog in the house which they seem able to keep. Thomas Whitehead, Inspector of Police, Handsworth, near Birmingham. 11 June 1878 |
3 June 1878 There is a brief report of his crime in the Birmingham Daily Post Monday 3 June 1878 p.8 cpl.2: Felonies By Birmingham Youths. - At the West Bromwich Police Court, on Saturday… Harry O'Donnell (11), Great Russell Street, was charged with attempting to steal a number of pigeons belonging to Mr. W. Griggs, of Hamstead Road, Handsworth, on Friday morning. The prisoner and two other boys were found by the prosecutor in the act of breaking into the pigeon-pen. The prisoner's companions escaped. Bench committed the prisoner to gaol for a month, afterwards to be detained in a reformatory for live years.
18 April 1881 6 strokes on the hands for receiving stolen carrots from E Russell [boy 623]
29 July 1881 Stealing beans - 6 strokes with cane on the posterior
April 14? 1883 Licensed to Mr Hooper, 82½ Brearley Street, Birmingham
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