| No. in Admissions Register: | 317 |
| Date of admission: | 21 October 1865 |
| 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? | Cowpox |
| Particular marks: | 2 moles on body |
| Cutaneous disorder? | No |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | No |
| Subject to fits? | No |
| Age last birthday: | 14 |
| Illegitimate? | - |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | - |
| Has resided: | At Nineveh, Birmingham |
| Parish he belongs to: | Birmingham |
| Customary work and mode of life: | None |
| Schools attended: | - |
| By whom and where employed: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Not at all |
| Writes: | Not at all |
| Cyphers: | - |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | Intent to commit a felony |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | - |
| Date of sentence: | 23 September 1865 |
| Where convicted: | Moor Street before F J Welch and W Halliday |
| Who prosecuted: | - |
| Where imprisoned: | - |
| Sentence: | 1 month prison (hard labour), 4 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals and convictions: | One: 2 days and whipped |
| Father's name: | David Ling |
| Occupation: | Locksmith |
| Residence: | Dyers Buildings, Soho, Birmingham |
| Mother's name: | Elizabeth Ling |
| Occupation: | None |
| Residence: | - |
| Father's character: | - |
| Mother's character: | - |
| Parents dead? | - |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Good |
| Character of parents | Honest, sober, and industrious but in poor circumstances. Has 4 children at home |
| Parents' wages: | 20s a week |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | Consents to pay 1s 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: | - |
25 September 1865 There is a report of the crime in the Birmingham Daily Post Monday 25 September 1865 p.7 col.4: YOUTHFUL BURGLARY.--David Ling boy 315] and George May [surname given thus], aged respectively fourteen and thirteen, were charged with breaking into the house of Joseph Wathouse, a working man, in Bacchus Lane. Early this morning May was found in one of the outhouses, and Ling was discovered beneath the bed where lay Mrs. Wathouse. Both lads bore a bad character. Ling having been previously convicted, Ling was sentenced to a month, and May to twenty-one days' imprisonment, both to be sent to a reformatory at the expiration of their sentences.
24 November 1866 Absconded with 320 [Henry Hassall] early in morning, through the negligence of R Crisp, the workman in charge at the time
6 March 1867 Captured by the police and brought back
23 March 1867 Absconded
2 January 1870 Heard of doing well in Birmingham
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