| No. in Admissions Register: | 171 |
| Date of admission: | 11 May 1860 |
| Whence received: | Birmingham Gaol |
| By whom brought: | - |
| On what terms: | - |
| Friends interested in him: | - |
| Description: | |
| Height: | - |
| Figure: | - |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Dark brown |
| Eyes colour: | Grey |
| Perfect vision? | Yes |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Sound intellect? | Yes |
| Use of all limbs? | Yes |
| Had cow or small pox? | Yes |
| Particular marks: | Scars on hand and body |
| Cutaneous disorder? | No |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | No |
| Subject to fits? | No |
| Age last birthday: | 12 |
| Illegitimate? | No |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | |
| Has resided: | 24 New Summer Street, Birmingham |
| Parish to which he belongs: | Portsmouth |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Gun implement maker |
| Schools attended: | - |
| By whom and where employed: | |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | Imperfectly |
| Cyphers: | - |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | Stealing a coat |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | - |
| Date of sentence: | 21 April 1860 |
| Where convicted: | Police Court, Birmingham |
| Where imprisoned: | Borough Gaol, Birmingham |
| Sentence: | 21 days prison, 5 years detention at Saltley |
| Previous committals and convictions: | Stealing herrings and cheese (21 days, whipping) |
| Father's name: | Frederick Coope |
| Occupation: | Soldier, |
| Residence: | 2 |
| Mother's name: | Ann Coope |
| Occupation: | Washerwoman |
| Residence: | 24 New Summer Street, Birmingham |
| Father's character: | - |
| Mother's character: | - |
| Parents dead? | No |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | - |
| Character of parents | - |
| Parents' wages: | - |
| Amount parents agree tp pay: | Mother can't pay, having several other children. Father can't be summoned |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | - |
| Relatives to communicate with: | - |
| Person making this return: | T C S Kymmersley, Esq. |
| Estimate of character on admission: | - |
| Character on discharge: | - |
| When and how left the Reformatory: | - |
23 April 1860 The is a short report of his offence in Aris's Birmingham Gazette Monday 23 April 1860 p.4 col.5: A lad named Thomas Coop [surname spelled thus], aged twelve, a gun implement maker, was charged with stealing a jacket from the house of Mr John Bullock, hatter, New Summer Street. The prisoner, who lodged at Mr Bullock's, took the garment on the previous day, and sold it to a clothes dealer for 8d. - Mr Bullock gave the young delinquent a very bad character; he refused to work and was constantly in the company of thieves, and a continual source of trouble to his mother, who is the wife of a soldier now in Corfu, and is in very humble circumstances. Mr Kynnersley sentenced the lad to twenty-one days imprisonment, and five years detention in a Reformatory.
[Prosecuted by Mr Bullock, whose first name is given as Thomas in the Admissions Register, John in the newspaper report]
13 January 1862 Absconded with 196 [Michael Darkin]
18 January 1862 Apprehended at Oswestry with 175 [Martin McAvoy] and 196 [Michael Darkin], and brought back
6 May 1862 Absconded
2 June 1862 Heard of his apprehension at Leeds and his committal to prison for 3 months hard [labour] and a reformatory for 5 years.
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