| No. in Admissions Register: | 664 |
| Age: | 14 |
| Whence received: | H M Prison Birmingham |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | - |
| Hair colour: | - |
| Eyes colour: | - |
| Visage: | - |
| Particular marks: | - |
| State of health: | - |
| Able-bodied? | - |
| Date of admission: | 12 March 1881 |
| Late residence: | Thorp Street, Birmingham |
| Parish he belongs to: | Birmingham |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Brass founder |
| Whether illegitimate: | No |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | No |
| Writes: | No |
| Offence: | Stealing 1 lb of tea |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | - |
| Date of sentence, by whom and court: | 21 February 1881; T C S Kynnersley; Birmingham Police Couty |
| Where imprisoned: | Birmingham Prison |
| Sentence: | 21 days in prison, 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | 1 |
| Length: | 14 days in prison |
| For what: | Stealing cigars |
| Father's name: | Richard Swatkins |
| Occupation: | Acid worker |
| Mother's name: | Elizabeth Swatkins |
| Occupation: | - |
| Parents dead? | - |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | - |
| Character of parents | Not known |
| Parents' wages: | - |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | No order made |
| Parents address: | 3 house 15 court Thorp Street, Birmingham |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | - |
| Person making this return: | - |
21 February 1881 There is a report of the crime in the Birmingham Mail Monday 21 February 1881 p.3 col.3: A PRECOCIOUS JUVENILE. Richard Watkin [surname spelled thus] (13), who lives in a court in Thorp Street, was charged with stealing 1 lb of tea, the property of Mr Bushell, tea dealer, High Street. On Saturday evening the prisoner went into the shop, which was full of customers, and took the packet of tea from a ledge. He was detected by an assistant. It was stated that the boy had been five times previously convicted, and was once arrested for highway robbery. He was now sent to gaol for twenty-one days, and afterwards to a reformatory school for five years.
6 April [no year given] 2 strokes on the hands for indecent conduct
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