| No. in Admissions Register: | 251 |
| Date of admission: | 1 April 1863 |
| Whence received: | Birmingham |
| By whom brought: | - |
| On what terms: | - |
| Friends interested in him: | - |
| Description: | |
| Height: | - |
| Figure: | - |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Brown |
| Eyes colour: | Grey |
| Perfect vision? | - |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Sound intellect? | Yes |
| Use of all limbs? | Yes |
| Had cow or small pox? | Cowpox |
| Particular marks: | Small scars on face |
| Cutaneous disorder? | Yes |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | No |
| Subject to fits? | No |
| Age last birthday: | 14 |
| Illegitimate? | No |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | - |
| Has resided: | 3 court Ruston Street North, Birmingham |
| Parish he belongs to: | Birmingham |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Caster |
| Schools attended: | - |
| By whom and where employed: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Not at all |
| Writes: | Not at all |
| Cyphers: | - |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | Stealing ½ lb of cigars |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Bad company |
| Date of sentence: | 19 March 1863 |
| Where convicted: | Moor Street, before T C S Kynnersley |
| Who prosecuted: | - |
| Where imprisoned: | - |
| Sentence: | 14 days prison, 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals and convictions: | Stealing fruit from a garden |
| Father's name: | Daniel Vale |
| Occupation: | Caster |
| Residence: | 3 court Ruston Street North, Birmingham |
| Mother's name: | - |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | - |
| Father's character: | - |
| Mother's character: | - |
| Parents dead? | - |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | - |
| Character of parents | - |
| Parents' wages: | - |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | A proportionate order to be made |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | - |
| Relatives to communicate with: | - |
| Person making this return: | T C S Kynnersley |
| Estimate of character on admission: | - |
| Character on discharge: | - |
| When and how left the Reformatory: | - |
1 September 1860 There is a lengthy report of a case of a woman who died while making her way home in which the boy was a witness, in the Birmingham Journal Saturday 1 September 1860 p.5 col.6. headed AWFUL INSTANCE OF SUDDEN DEATH.
20 August 1862 There is a report of his previous offence in the Birmingham Daily Post Wednesday 20 August 1862 p.2 col.5: GARDEN ROBBING. - A lad named Daniel Vale, residing in Ruston Street North, was charged with having stolen a quantity of apples from the garden of Mr. J. H. Baker, solicitor, Francis Street, Edgbaston. It appeared from the evidence of Eliza Price, a domestic servant in the employment of the prosecutor, that shortly after two o'clock on the afternoon of the previous day she saw the prisoner, and two or three other boys, in her master's garden. As 'soon as they saw her they ran away in the direction of the Hagley Road. Upon examining the trees the witness missed a quantity of apples from them. In the evening the prisoner went again to the garden, and upon leaving, with some iron which he had stolen from a summer arbour, lie was caught by a man named Thomas Bright, who had been set to watch. The prisoner was committed to the House of Correction, with hard labour, for twenty-one days.
21 March 1863 There is a report of the offence which sent him to the Reformatory in the Birmingham Journal Saturday 21 March 1863 p.6 col.6: CAPTURE OF A GANG OF YOUNG THIEVES. - Five lads, named Benjamin Smith, Morville Street; Alfred Warburton, Tennant Street: William Coton, Charles Henry Street: Daniel Vale, Ruston street North : and Edward Perks, Washington Street, were charged with having stolen a quantity of cigars, from the shop of Mr. Breley, tobacconist, 29, Cherry Street. The young thieves, it seems, sneaked into the prosecutor's shop on the previous afternoon, and pocketed a number of cigars from the counter and were about to take a box from the window, when the prosecutor ran into the shop, and locked the front door. Vale had been previously convicted. He was now ordered to be imprisoned for fourteen days, and at the expiration of that term sent to the reformatory school for five years. Coton. Smith, Warburton. and Perks, were ordered to be imprisoned for three days, and to be well whipped.
19 November 1863 Sent to the Queen's Hospital with scarlet fever
10 January 1864 Attempted to abscond in the night by getting the key out of Mr Cook's pocket, with Yates [boy 183]
22 January 1865 Emigrated to Canada
January 1866 A soldier at Sharncliffe. Good [character]
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