| No. in Admissions Register: | 613 |
| Age: | 15 |
| Whence received: | Stafford Prison |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Brown |
| Eyes colour: | Grey |
| Visage: | Long |
| Particular marks: | - |
| State of health: | - |
| Able-bodied? | - |
| Date of admission: | 13 July 1878 |
| Late residence: | Wolverhampton |
| Parish he belongs to: | Wolverhampton |
| Customary work and mode of life: | - |
| Whether illegitimate: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Not at all |
| Writes: | Not at all |
| Offence: | Stealing iron |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | - |
| Date of sentence, by who and court: | 14 June 1878; W Hatton and G Ward; Bilston Petty Sessions |
| Where imprisoned: | H M Prison, Stafford |
| Sentence: | 1 month in prison, 3 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | - |
| Length: | - |
| For what: | - |
| Father's name: | Charles Grosvenor |
| Occupation: | Bricklayer |
| Mother's name: | Mary Grosvenor |
| Occupation: | - |
| Parents dead? | No |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Good |
| Character of parents | Father addicted to drinking habits; nothing known against them for dishonesty |
| Parents' wages: | About 20s per week earned by father, when regularly employed - work very uncertain |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | 1s 6d per week should be contributed towards maintenance |
| Parents address: | Charles Grosvenor, Canal Street, Wolverhampton |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | Hugh McCrea, Chief Superintendent of Police, Bilston, Staffordshire |
| Person making this return: | John William Hall, Justices' Clerk, Bilston |
15 June 1878 There is a short report of the crime in the Wolverhampton Express and Star Saturday 15 June p.3 col.3: A BATCH OF YOUTHFUL OFFENDERS. - Edward Grosvenor (15), fornerly of Stafford-street. Wolverhampton, was brought up on a charge of vagrancy, and was further charged with stealing, on the 11th July last, a quantity of iron from a colliery at Bradley, the property of Messrs G. B. Thorneycroft and Co. On the day named Grosvenor arid a lad armed Stanley Stanley stole two iron strips from the colliery and took them to a dealer at Princes End, who, suspecting that the lads had not come by the property honestly, sent for the police. Grosvenor managed to escape, but the other was detained and given into custody, and subsequently convicted of the offence. On Tuesday last Police- oonstable Persons found the prisoner asleep in a colliery hovel at Bradley and arrested him. The prisoner was committed to gaol for a month and to a reformatory for five years. His mother, who was present in court with a child in her arms, fainted on hearing the sentence and had to be carried out.
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