| No. in Admissions Register: | 640 |
| Age: | 12 |
| Whence received: | Stafford Prison |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Light brown |
| Eyes colour: | Light blue |
| Visage: | - |
| Particular marks: | None |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Date of admission: | 24 April 1880 |
| Late residence: | Wolverhampton |
| Parish he belongs to: | Wolverhampton |
| Customary work and mode of life: | None |
| Whether illegitimate: | Yes |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | Imperfectly |
| Offence: | Stealing a satchel |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Bad example and bad training |
| Date of sentence, by whom and court: | 27 March 1880; M Underhill and M Ironmonger; Wolverhampton Court of summary Jurisdiction |
| Where imprisoned: | H M Prison Stafford |
| Sentence: | 28 days in prison, 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | 4 |
| Length: | 3 days and whipped |
| For what: | Stealing |
| Father's name: | - |
| Occupation: | - |
| Mother's name: | Mary Ann Platt |
| Occupation: | Charwoman |
| Parents dead? | Father |
| Survivor married again? | No |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Good (taught to steal) |
| Character of parents | Not good |
| Parents' wages: | Mother lives principally by stealing |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | Will probably not be able to pay anything |
| Parents address: | Mary Ann Platt, Brickiln Street, Wolverhampton |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | Major Hay, Chief Constable, Wolverhampton |
| Person making this return: | - |
27 March 1880 There is a report of the crim that sent him to Saltley in the Wolverhampton Express and Star Saturday 27 March 1880 p.3 col.2: YOUTHFUL HIGHWAYMEN. - Davi4 Platt, alias Lowbridge (11), Little Brickkiln-street, David Henry turner (11), Oxford-street, and William Turner (9), were brought up in custody charged with stealing a satchel and 9d,. from the person of Ann Lawson, a young girl, in New Hampton-road, on Thursday last, .and Platt's mother was charged with receiving a portion of the money with a guilty knowledge. - The boys threatened to throw the girl into a pool if she did not give up the satchel, and thus succeeded in getting it from her, along with the money, which was inside it. Platt afterwards gave his mother 5½d. - Mrs Platt and the two Turners were cautioned and discharged, and David Platt, who bears a bad character, was committed to gaol for a month and a reformatory for five years.
29 December 1887 A crime committed after he left Saltley is reported in the Birmingham Daily Post Thursday 29 December 1887 p.3 col.6: A YOUNG CRIMINAL. - At the Police Court yesterday, David Platt (17), of Brock Street, Salop Street, was charged with stealing an apron, valued at 10d, the property of Fanny Hibbert, widow, of New Hampton Road. The apron, which was missing from a clothes line, was found in the possession of the prisoner. - The Stipendiary (Mr. Neville) stated that although the prisoner was only seventeen years. of ago he had already been charged with seven offences, and had been sentenced to five years' detention in a reformatory. He had commenced the life of an habitual criminal, which would end in penal servitude. - Prisoner was sentenced to three months' hard Iabour.
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