| No. in Admissions Register: | 197 |
| Date of admission: | 3 December 1860 |
| Whence received: | Stafford Gaol |
| By whom brought: | - |
| On what terms: | - |
| Friends interested in him: | - |
| Description: | |
| Height: | - |
| Figure: | - |
| Complexion: | - |
| Hair colour: | - |
| Eyes colour: | - |
| Perfect vision? | Yes |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Sound intellect? | Yes |
| Use of all limbs? | Yes |
| Had cow or small pox? | Not apparent |
| Particular marks: | - |
| Cutaneous disorder? | No |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | Not apparent |
| Subject to fits? | No |
| Age last birthday: | 14 |
| Illegitimate? | No |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | - |
| Has resided: | Dale Street, Wolverhampton |
| Parish to which he belongs: | St Paul's, Wolverhampton |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Butcher, but irregular and slept out of doors |
| Schools attended: | He says Bushbury |
| By whom and where employed: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | A little |
| Writes: | - |
| Cyphers: | - |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | Stealing a coat |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Bad company |
| Date of sentence: | - |
| Where convicted: | - |
| Where imprisoned: | - |
| Sentence: | - |
| Previous committals and convictions: | - |
| Father's name: | Charles Broadbent |
| Occupation: | Coach painter |
| Residence: | Dale Street, Wolverhampton |
| Mother's name: | Charlotte Broadbent |
| Occupation: | Charwoman |
| Residence: | Dale Street, Wolverhampton |
| Father's character: | Good |
| Mother's character: | Good |
| Parents dead? | No |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Kindly |
| Character of parents | Good |
| Parents' wages: | Father 20s a week, mother 1s |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | - |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | Captain Segram, Wolverhampton |
| Relatives to communicate with: | - |
| Person making this return: | Henry Segram, Wolverhampton |
| Estimate of character on admission: | - |
| Character on discharge: | - |
| When and how left the Reformatory: | - |
7 November 1860 There is a short report of his offence in the Wolverhampton Chronicle and Staffordshire Advertiser Wednesday 7 November 1860 p.6 col.4: JUVENILE DELINQUENTS.-Four incorrigibles, named Matthew Moran, Matthew Neville [boy 195], Michael Darkin [boy 196], and Thomas Broadbent [197] were charged with stealing an overcoat belonging to David Williams. Prosecutor had left the coat in his cart in Exchange Street, from whence it was stolen the by prisoners. They were each committed for one month, Moran to be subsequently detained four years in the reformatory ship Akbar, Liverpool, and the others to be sent for a similar period to the Saltley Reformatory.
11 January 1862 Absconded
21 January 1862 Fetched back from Wolverhampton
21 May 1862 Taken to Liverpool to emigrate to Canada but could not sail until the 28th.
7 September 1863 Called at the school, said he had turned sailor, had worked his passage back
1 October 1864 At home, not employed
January 1866 Said to have left the neighbourhood and gone to London
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