| No. in Admissions Register: | 268 |
| Date of admission: | 25 November 1863 |
| 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: | Brown |
| Perfect vision? | Yes |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Rather lame |
| Sound intellect? | Yes |
| Use of all limbs? | Lame |
| Had cow or small pox? | Cowpox |
| Particular marks: | Speck on right eye |
| Cutaneous disorder? | No |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | No |
| Subject to fits? | No |
| Age last birthday: | 14 |
| Illegitimate? | - |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | - |
| Has resided: | Swan Yard, Little Hampton Street, Birmingham |
| Parish he belongs to: | Birmingham |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Enameller |
| Schools attended: | - |
| By whom and where employed: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Not at all |
| Writes: | Not at all |
| Cyphers: | - |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | Stealing scrap brass |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Not known |
| Date of sentence: | 12 November 1863 |
| Where convicted: | Moor Street, before T C S Kynnersley |
| Who prosecuted: | - |
| Where imprisoned: | - |
| Sentence: | 14 days, 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals and convictions: | None |
| Father's name: | John Whitehouse |
| Occupation: | Snuffer maker |
| Residence: | 3 back of 96 Hampton Street, Birmingham |
| Mother's name: | Dead |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | - |
| Father's character: | Sober, honest, and industrious |
| Mother's character: | - |
| Parents dead? | Mother |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | - |
| Character of parents | Often short of work |
| Parents' wages: | 16s a week in winter. In summer breaks stones for the parish. Six children at home. |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | Probably 6d per week |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | - |
| Relatives to communicate with: | - |
| Person making this return: | - |
| Estimate of character on admission: | - |
| Character on discharge: | - |
| When and how left the Reformatory: | - |
13 November 1863 There is a report of his crime in the Birmingham Daily Gazette Friday 13 November 1863 p.3 col.1: ANOTHER ROBBERY OF AN EMPLOYER. - A lad, sixteen years of age, named Edwin Whitehouse, an annealer, residing in a court in Hampton Street, was charged with stealing a quantity of scrap brass, belonging to his employer, William Westbury, Regent Parade, gilt toy manufacturer. It appeared that the prisoner has been robbing his employer for some time. On the previous evening He stopped the prisoner as he came from the workshop, when he found he had about two pounds of brass in his pockets. The sister of the prisoner gave him a very bad character, and stated that by his dishonest conduct he had caused the death of his mother. Since then he had been in prison for robbing his father, The prisoner was sent to gaol for fourteen days with hard labour, afterwards to be sent to a Reformatory for five years.
28 November 1868 Discharged
October 1870 In Birmingham. Doing well
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