| No. in Admissions Register: | 641 |
| Age: | 12 |
| Whence received: | Stafford Prison |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Brown |
| Eyes colour: | Hazel |
| Visage: | Oval |
| Particular marks: | Small mole left side |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Date of admission: | 5 May 1880 |
| Late residence: | Uttoxeter Heath, Staffordshire |
| Parish he belongs to: | Uttoxeter |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Groom |
| Whether illegitimate: | No |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | Imperfectly |
| Offence: | Stealing eggs |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Poverty |
| Date of sentence, by whom and court: | 21 April 1880; A F Dawson and J Waterpark |
| Where imprisoned: | H M Prison Stafford |
| Sentence: | 14 days in prison, 3 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | None |
| Length: | - |
| For what: | - |
| Father's name: | John Walker |
| Occupation: | Brewer's labourer |
| Mother's name: | Harriet Walker |
| Occupation: | - |
| Parents dead? | Neither |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Good |
| Character of parents | Honest, sober, health good |
| Parents' wages: | 16s per week |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | Nothing. Parents are very poor with a large family |
| Parents address: | John Walker, The Heath, Uttoxeter |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | Williams, Leek, Staffordshire |
| Person making this return: | - |
24 April 1880 There is a report of his crime in the Staffordshire Sentinel and Commercial and General Advertiser Saturday 24 April 1880 p.6 col.2:FOWL-STEALING. - Three boys - named Thomas Walker, aged thirteen; Alfred Baxter, aged eight; and William Statham, aged seven years -were charged by Henry Mycock with having killed and stolen some fowls, and also with having taken a quantity of eggs, belonging to his mother, on the 5th inst. - The prosecutor said that on the day in question he went to a barn near the mill, on the Heath, where he kept a number of fowls, and found that the door had been broken, and one hen lay the floor dead, and others were missing. He went again the same day about half-past seven, and found two of the defendants, Walker and Statham, in the loft, and they had got five hens up in a corner. Witness asked what they were doing, to which they replied, " Nothing." He then charged them with stealing the fowls.-There was no evidence against the boy named Baxter, and he was accordingly dismissed ; and the evidence of Statham was taken against Walker, who said he went with Walker to the barn, and Walker threw some hay on a fowl and then caught it, and killed it, and afterwards cut its comb off, they found nineteen eggs, which Walker took to Uttoxeter, and got a boy named Roberts to sell for one shilling, and then they spent the money -The boy Roberts was called, and said that Walker asked him to go into a shop and sell the eggs, which he said were his mother's; he did so, and received a penny for his trouble.- Defendant's father said he was bad boy, and had given him a great deal of trouble, and he should leave it to the magistrates to do what they liked with him.-The boy pleaded guilty, and wished the case to be settled at that Court.-The magistrates warned the parents of the other boys to be very careful what company they allowed them to get into, they had had a narrow escape.-Walker was committed to gaol for fourteen days, at the end of which he was to be sent to a reformatory for three years.
29 May [no year given] 6 strokes on the hand for handling another boy in an indecent manner
4 May 1883 Returned to parents on expiration of sentence
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