| No. in Admissions Register: | 666 |
| Age: | 13 |
| Whence received: | Birmingham Prisn |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Brown |
| Eyes colour: | Brown |
| Visage: | Clear |
| Particular marks: | None |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Date of admission: | 10 May 1881 |
| Late residence: | 5 Bishopgate Street, Birmingham |
| Parish he belongs to: | Birmingham |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Selling newspapers and working in his aunt's garden |
| Whether illegitimate: | No |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly - just knows his letters |
| Writes: | Imperfectly - can write his name |
| Offence: | Attempting to steal a purse from the person |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | His father fied and was then left in the guardianship of his aunt, who manages him...[can't read the rest] |
| Date of sentence, by whom and court: | 27 April 1881; T C S Kynnersley; Birmingham Police Court |
| Where imprisoned: | H M Prison Birmingham |
| Sentence: | 14 days hard labour in prison, 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | 1 |
| Length: | Remanded and afterwards discharged |
| For what: | Picking pockets |
| Father's name: | Henry Harhrave (step-father) |
| Occupation: | Caster in a bedding facory |
| Mother's name: | Lucy Hargrave |
| Occupation: | - |
| Parents dead? | Father has been dead 7 years |
| Survivor married again? | Yes, the widow married an Henry Hargrave |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Received kind treatment |
| Character of parents | Not known |
| Parents' wages: | The boy says his step-father earns £2 per week |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | - |
| Parents address: | 5 Bishopdate Street, Birmingham. A later abnnotation give 19 court 1 house [same street? no additional information] (25 August 1881) |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | - |
| Person making this return: | - |
5 April 1881 There is a report of his previous offence in the Birmingham Mail Tuesday 5 April 1881 p.3 col.6: A YOUNG PICKPOCKET. Alfred Alger, (13). hawker, who lives in Bishopgate Street, was charged with stealing a purse containing 2s 7d. from the person of Sarah Champion, of Belgrave Road. Mrs. Champion was in New Street, about two o'clock yesterday afternoon, when prisoner came up and took her purse from her dress pocket and ran up Corporation Street with it. He was followed and overtaken by a young gentleman named Kynaston, who saw the lad make several attempts previous to robbing the prosecutrix. The prisoner was remanded for a week for enquiries to be made.
27 April 1881 The crime that sent him to Saltley was reported in the Birmingham Mail Wednesday 27 April 1881 p.3 col.4: YOUTHFUL PICKPOCKETS. Thomas McKay (15), 3 court, 11 house, Howard s Place, and Alfred Alger (13), 5, Bishopsgate Street, were charged with attempting to pick pockets yesterday. - Police-constable Quarterrnan, 33R, said he saw Alger with his hand in a lady's pocket, in Union Passage, and McKay was apprehended for having acted as a "cover'' to the other prisoner. McKay was sentenced to three months' imprisonment with hard labour, and Alger to 21 days' imprisonment, with five years in a reformatory.
12 May 1881 Wrote to the boy's step-father and enclosed a notice re Visiting Day. I am anxious that the boy should get a letter from his parents
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