| No. in Admissions Register: | 642 |
| Age: | 13 |
| Whence received: | H M Prison Warwick |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Brown |
| Eyes colour: | Blue |
| Visage: | Face freckled |
| Particular marks: | Pigeon breast. Hernia left side. Brown mark on chest. Bad mark each side small of back. Impediment in speech |
| State of health: | - |
| Able-bodied? | - |
| Date of admission: | 22 May 1880 |
| Late residence: | Warwick |
| Parish he belongs to: | - |
| Customary work and mode of life: | - |
| Whether illegitimate: | No |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Very indifferent |
| Writes: | Very indifferent |
| Offence: | Embezzlement |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | - |
| Date of sentence, by whom and court: | 3 May 1880; R D Vaughan, T B Dale, and F W Strickland; Court House, Warwick |
| Where imprisoned: | - |
| Sentence: | 21 days hard labour in prison, 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | 1 |
| Length: | - |
| For what: | Stealing his master's money |
| Father's name: | George Cox |
| Occupation: | Lamp lighter |
| Mother's name: | Sarah Jane Cox |
| Occupation: | - |
| Parents dead? | - |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Father unable to control him - has 7 children |
| Character of parents | Good |
| Parents' wages: | - |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | 1s 6d per week |
| Parents address: | 89 Sallisford, Warwick |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | - |
| Person making this return: | - |
8 May 1880 There is a report of the crime that sent him to Saltley in the Leamington Spa Courier Saturday 8 May 1880 p.7 col.1: STEALING A SHILLING. - The little boy, who, some weeks ago was ordered to be whipped for stealing money out of a till, but whose state of health would not permit of such punishment, named John Charles Cox, of the Saltisford, was brought up again charged with stealing a shilling on Saturday. - A woman named Mrs Allchurch, of West-street, said that she employed the prisoner on Saturday, the 1st of May, and she sent him up to Dr. Henning's with some potatoes. She told him he was to receive a shilling for them. He received the shilling and had the basket returned to him. but he never came back to witness. - A woman named Emma Richardson, who was at Dr. Henning's on Saturday, when the prisoner brought the potatoes, proved paying prisoner the shilling. - P.C. Rollason said he met the prisoner in Jury-street, and he asked him where the shilling and the basket were. He said he had spent the whole of the shilling and had hidden the basket in New-street, but the basket could not be found. - It took some trouble to get the prisoner to understand the usual questions with respect to being tried by jury, but at last he said he would be dealt with summarily. - His father said he could do nothing with him, and he was sent to gaol for twenty-one days, and then ordered to be detained in a reformatory for five years.
28 May 1881 Placed in the cell one night - 2 meals of bread and water for irregular conduct. See Punishment Book for this date.
3 April 1882 Licensed to his father who is living at 89 Sallisford, Warwick
16 August 1882 Re-admitted from gaol
23 April 1883 Discharged by order of the Home Secretary on account of application and returned to friends
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