| No. in Admissions Register: | 653 |
| Age: | 9 |
| Whence received: | Stafford Gaol |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Brown |
| Eyes colour: | Grey |
| Visage: | Round |
| Particular marks: | - |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Good |
| Date of admission: | 29 October 1880 |
| Late residence: | Wolverhampton |
| Parish he belongs to: | Wolverhampton |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Non3 |
| Whether illegitimate: | No |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | Imperfectly |
| Offence: | Stealing money |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Bad company |
| Date of sentence, by whom and court: | 29 September 1880; F F Boughey, Stipendiary Magistrate |
| Where imprisoned: | Stafford Gaol |
| Sentence: | 1 month in prison, 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | 3 |
| Length: | Whipped once and imprisoned in police cells |
| For what: | Stealing money |
| Father's name: | George Turner |
| Occupation: | Locksmith |
| Mother's name: | Jane Turner |
| Occupation: | - |
| Parents dead? | No |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Nothing known against parents |
| Character of parents | Honest, sober, health good |
| Parents' wages: | Perhaps 15s or 20s a week |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | 1s a week |
| Parents address: | 6 court Oxford Street, Wolverhampton. A later addition has 40 Grimstone Street, Springfield, Wolverhampton (30 July 1881) |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | - |
| Person making this return: | - |
27 March 1880 There is a possible report of a previous offence 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 September 1880 The crime that sent him to Saltley is reported in the Wolverhampton Express and Star Wednesday 29 Deptember 1880 p.3 col.3: ROBBERY FROM A TILL. - William Turner, a boy nine years of age was brought up in custody charged with stealing 1s. 8½d from a till at the shop of Thomas Shaw, greengrocer, Salop-street. - The prosecutor Is a member of the borough police force, and his wife keeps a shop in Salop-street. This morning a girl in service at the establishment caught the defendant in the act of stealing money from the till. She detained him, and gave him into the custody of her employer, who took him to the police station. - The father of the lad said the prisoner had been ungovernable for 12 months past. He (the father) had not seen him since Monday morning last until to-day. - Major Hay said the prisoner had been three times convicted of felony this year alone, besides once for assault. He had not, however, been sent to gaol, but had been whipped. - The Stipendiary said boys were not made bad by going to prison, and there was a great deal of false sympathy abroad in such cases. Prisoner would be kept in gaol for a month, and sent to a reformatory tor five years.
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