| No. in Admissions Register: | 658 |
| Age: | 12 |
| Whence received: | H M Prison Birmingham |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Light brown |
| Eyes colour: | brown |
| Visage: | - |
| Particular marks: | Burn mark |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Date of admission: | 13 December 1880 |
| Late residence: | Wolverhampton |
| Parish he belongs to: | Wolverhampton |
| Customary work and mode of life: | None |
| Whether illegitimate: | No |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | Imperfectly |
| Offence: | Stealing apples |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Has been neglected by his father. The boy is unusually clever but has been allowed to run wild |
| Date of sentence, by whom and court: | 11 November 1880; J Jones and J Walker; Wolverhampton Court of Summary Jurisdiction |
| Where imprisoned: | Stafford Prison |
| Sentence: | 1 month in prison, 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | 1 |
| Length: | 3 months in prison |
| For what: | Rogue, etc |
| Father's name: | Francis Adams |
| Occupation: | Clerk to lawyer |
| Mother's name: | - |
| Occupation: | - |
| Parents dead? | Mother |
| Survivor married again? | |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Good |
| Character of parents | Honest, health good |
| Parents' wages: | Father's earning very uncertain - does not work regularly |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | 2s 6d per week |
| Parents address: | Francis Adams, 145 North Street, Wolverhampton |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | - |
| Person making this return: | - |
12 November 1880 There is a report of the crime in the Birmingham Daily Post Friday 12 November 1880 p.8 col.6: JUVENILES SENT TO PRISON.- Yesterday, at the Police .Court, Henry Clifford Adams (14), North Street was charged with stealing six packs of cards, value 3s, frorn the shop of Messrs. Steen and Co., Queen Square; and together with George Allen (15) and Frederick Dovey (13) with breaking open a box of apples, in Exchange Street, during the wholesale market, on Wednesday forenoon, and stealing the contents. - The box had been left in the street by George Yates, Queen Street, Bilston. and Adams forced it open, and the other prisoners assisted him in carrying away the apples. - Major Hay (the chief constable) said that Adams had been six times previously convicted. He was sentenced to a month's imprisonment, and afterwards to a reformatory school for five years. - Allen was described by the Chief Constable as a positive nuisance, an4 was sent to gaol for a month; and Dovey was ordered to be imprisoned for three days, and to receive twelve strokes with a birch rod.
4 October 1887 After leaving Saltley, Adams was again in trouble. There is a report in the Birmingham Daily Post Tuesday 4 October p.8 col.6: CHASE AFTER THIEVES. - Yesterday, at the County Police Court, Henry Clifford Adams (21) and George Stone (18), both of Berry Street, and Frederick Lambert (16) of North Street, were charged with stealing apples from the garden of James Southwick, blacksmith, of Upper Green, Tettenhall. The prisoners were on Friday discovered in the garden, and a long chase ensued before they were captured. - Stone and Adams, who had been many times convicted, were each sentenced to three months' hard labour; and Lambert to fourteen days' hard labour.
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