| No. in Admissions Register: | 670 |
| Age: | 13 |
| Whence received: | H M Prison Derby |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Light brown |
| Eyes colour: | Blue |
| Visage: | - |
| Particular marks: | 1 scar forehead, 1 right eyebrow |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | |
| Date of admission: | 23 June 1881 |
| Late residence: | Spowage's Lodging House, Holywell Street, Chesterfield |
| Parish he belongs to: | - |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Spinner |
| Whether illegitimate: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Not at all |
| Writes: | Not at all |
| Offence: | Stealing 6d in money |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Keeping bad company |
| Date of sentence, by whom and court: | 13 June 1881; J Brown and J Swanwick; Chesterfield |
| Where imprisoned: | H M Prison Derby |
| Sentence: | 10 days hard labour in prison, and at Saltley until he attains the age of 16 (29 January 1884) |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | - |
| Length: | - |
| For what: | - |
| Father's name: | - |
| Occupation: | - |
| Mother's name: | Annie Booth |
| Occupation: | - |
| Parents dead? | Father |
| Survivor married again? | No |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Good |
| Character of parents | Not known |
| Parents' wages: | Not known |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | Mother is a widow and unable to pay anything |
| Parents address: | Spowage's Yard, Chesterfield |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | - |
| Person making this return: | - |
30 March 1881 There is a report of a probable previous offence in the Derby Mercury 30 March 1881 p.3 col.3: JUVENILE OFFENDERS.-Thomas Prime, aged eight years, and Frederick Booth, rather older, were charged at the Chesterfield Police Court on Thursday with stealing a rabbit skin, of the value of 4d. Prime had been previously convicted, and was sent to a reformatory till he is 16 years of age. and Booth was ordered to receive six strokes of the birch rod.
18 June 1881 The crime that sent him to Saltley was reported in the Derbyshire Times and Chesterfield Herald Saturday 18 June 1881 p.3 col.4: THEFT BY JUVENILE. - Frederick Booth, a boy 12 years of age and residing In Holywell Street, was charged with stealing sixpence the property of Andrew Gollagher aged 11 years, and living la Lordsmlll Street on June 4th. Gollagher said that on the morning of June 4th he was counting over his money, intending go and buy some matches, when the prisoner came up, knocked his money out of his hand, picked up sixpenny worth of coppers and ran away. A lad named Shentall living in Sorsby Street corroborated Gollagher's evidence and Supt. Else stated that the lad had been previously convicted in Sheffield and also in Chesterfield. The lad's mother asked the bench to deal leniently with the boy but the bench decided to send him to gaol for 10 days and afterwards to a reformatory until he attains the age of sixteen years. The lad's mother on leaving the court remarked that the bench was never so hard on the Irish boys, they always dealt leniently with them.
29 June 1881 4 strokes on the hands for repeated miscondected
3 August [1881? no year given] 6 strokes on the hands for filthy conversation (see Punishment Book)
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