| No. in Admissions Register: | 106 |
| Date of admission: | 5 June 1857 |
| Whence received: | Stafford Gaol |
| By whom brought: | Mr Montford |
| On what terms: | Committed |
| Friends interested in him: | - |
| Description: | |
| Height: | - |
| Figure: | - |
| Complexion: | Florid |
| Hair colour: | Brown |
| Eyes colour: | - |
| Perfect vision? | - |
| State of health: | Delicate |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Sound intellect? | Yes |
| Use of all limbs? | Yes |
| Had cow or small pox? | Cowpox |
| Particular marks: | None |
| Cutaneous disorder? | No |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | No |
| Subject to fits? | No |
| Age last birthday | 9 |
| Illegitimate? | No |
| Birthday | - |
| Birth place | - |
| Has resided: | at Coseley |
| Parish to which he belongs: | Sedgley |
| Customary work and mode of life: | none |
| Schools attended: | Christ Church School, Coseley |
| By whom and where employed: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Fairly |
| Writes: | Very little |
| Cyphers: | - |
| General ability: | Good |
| Offence: | Stealing 10s from his grandfather Thomas Wellings |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Probably the encouragement of older boys |
| Date of sentence: | 22 May 1857 |
| Where convicted: | Public Office, Bilston, before James Loxdale, Esq, and Rev H S Fletcher |
| Sentence: | 14 days in prison, 2 years at Saltley |
| Where imprisoned: | - |
| Previous committals and convictions: | - |
| Father's name: | - |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | - |
| Mother's name: | Ann Powell |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | Church Bridge, Oldbury |
| Father's character: | - |
| Mother's character: | Honest, sober, and industrious |
| Parents dead? | Father is |
| Survivor married again? | Is about to be |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Good |
| Character of parents: | - |
| Parents' wages: | - |
| Weekly amount parents will pay: | - |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | |
| Relatives to communicate with: | - |
| Person making this return: | James Loxdale, Justice of the Peace |
| Estimate of character on admission: | - |
| Character on discharge: | - |
| When and how left the Reformatory: | - |
27 May 1857 There is a report of his crime in the Wolverhampton Chronicle and Staffordshire Advertiser Wednesday 27 May 1857, p.5, col.4: CURIOUS CHARGE OF STEALING A HALF-SOVEREIGN. - Two boys named John Powell and John Baker, respectively aged nine years, were charged with stealing a half-sovereign, the property of Thomas Wellings, grandfather of Powell. The prisoners went to school together, and the coin was missed from a box belonging to Mr Wellings. Powell was taxed with stealing it, and he said he had given it to Baker. The latter was accused by his sister of receiving it, and he gave up a purse containing 9s 6d, stating that he and Powell had spent 6d in tobacco, pipes, etc. Mr Wellings said the present was the seventh time Powell had robbed him, and he did not know what to do with him. The boy seemed a hardened youth. He was committed to gaol for fourteen days, and afterwards to two years confinement in the Saltley Reformatory Institution. Baker was ordered to be whipped and taken to his father.
1 September 1857 name on Good Conduct List
5 June 1859 left, returned to his mother, under who he was apprenticed to a tailor in Dudley
5 February 1861 saw him at Dudley in the employment of a Mr Nock, tailor, High Street, only been a week on trial yet. Stubbs, the tailor he went to first said he was a very naughty boy. He is still very little.
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