ERDINGTON POLICE COURT. – The Magistrates present at this Court yesterday were the Rev. W. K. R. Bedford and Messrs. G. Smallwood and J. Ledsam. […] Two boys, named Rowland Owen and Samuel Hall, from Grosvenor Street West, Birmingham, were convicted of stealing a chicken, the property of Benjamin Wheeler, Park Road, Aston, on the 2nd instant. Both prisoners had been in gaol in Birmingham for thefts. They were each sentenced to a month’s imprisonment, and afterwards to a reformatory school for five years.
(Birmingham Daily Post, 9th June 1870)
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