| No. in Admissions Register: | 100 |
| Date of admission: | 24 December 1856 |
| Weekly payments: | - |
| Age: | 12 |
| Education: | Very trifling(?) |
| Previous employment: | Locksmith |
| Crimes, how often and in what prison: | - |
| Training in reformatory: | Absconded 31 March 1857, 21 May 1857, and 31 July 1858. |
| When left reformatory: | - |
| Parentage and family: | Both living |
| Residence: | Back lane, Stafford Street, Wolverhampton |
| Trade of father: | Labourer |
| With whom the boy is placed: | - |
| Address: | - |
| Trade: | - |
13 December 1856 A very brief report of the crime is given in the Staffordshire Advertiser Saturday 13 December 1856 p.6 col.4: CONVICTED UNDER THE JUVENILE OFFENDERS ACT: - John Collins, of Wolverhampton, stealing stockings etc, at Wolverhampton, one month's labour [in prison] and two years to Saltley Reformatory School.
4 April 1857 In the Reformatory Minute book is recorded: 426. Resolved: that information be sent to Mr Stephens at the Police Courts, and that proceedings be taken against Rooney [boy 63] and Tremble [boy 64], also against Carlton [boy 91], Taylor [boy 92], Collins, and Hughes [boy 70], who absconded on the 1st of April.
3 June 1857 The Reformatory Minute Book list those boys who have absconded and are still at large, including Collins.
11 August 1857 The Minute Books reports: 473. … and that John Collins absconded on the 20th of July and was in prison at Stafford for theft committed at Wolverhampton
16 June 1858 There is a report of his third absconding in the Wolverhampton Chronicle and Staffordshire Advertiser Wednesday 16 June 1858, p.6, col.3: JUVENILE DELINQUENTS. - John Collins, a boy about twelve years of age, who, it appeared, had twice absconded from the Reformatory at Saltley, was brought before the Bench by Police Officer Moran, who stated that this morning, at about half past ten o'clock, he met a woman in Queen Street, who told him that the prisoner and four other boys had been in her yard, and they had taken some bread; she did not know, however, that the prisoner had taken the bread. He took him into custody, and on enquiry found that he had absconded from Saltley.Police Officer Corden proved that the prisoner had been twice committed from this court to Saltley. The prisoner, in reply to questions from the Bench, said he ran away from Saltley a fortnight ago, and once before; he had been sent for two years. Mr Kettle said it was hard to know what to do with such a boy, as kindness seemed useless, he must be severely punished. He would be committed for twenty-one days to hard labour, as that would be a harder punishment than commitment for three months. He would be kept to one meal short every day, and have a board to lie on instead of a bed.
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