| No. in Admissions Register: | 332 |
| Date of admission: | 16 March 1866 |
| Whence received: | Stafford |
| By whom brought: | - |
| On what terms: | - |
| Friends interested in him: | - |
| Description: | |
| Height: | - |
| Figure: | - |
| Complexion: | Fair |
| Hair colour: | Brown |
| Eyes colour: | Brown |
| 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: | None |
| Cutaneous disorder? | No |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | Not apparent |
| Subject to fits? | No |
| Age last birthday: | 13 |
| Illegitimate? | - |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | - |
| Has resided: | Gornal, Sedgley |
| Parish he belongs to: | Sedgley |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Bricklayer's labourer |
| Schools attended: | - |
| By whom and where employed: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | Not at all |
| Cyphers: | - |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | Pocket picking |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Bad company |
| Date of sentence: | 2 February 1866 |
| Where convicted: | Bilston |
| Who prosecuted: | - |
| Where imprisoned: | - |
| Sentence: | 42 days' prison (hard labour), 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals and convictions: | - |
| Father's name: | John Bradley |
| Occupation: | Bricklayer |
| Residence: | Gornal, Sedgley |
| Mother's name: | Emma Bradley |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | - |
| Father's character: | Drunken |
| Mother's character: | - |
| Parents dead? | - |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Bad |
| Character of parents | - |
| Parents' wages: | 30s per week |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | Justices think they ought to pay but have not sufficient information to fix the amount |
| 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: | - |
7 February 1866 There is a report of the crime in the Wolverhampton Chronicle and Staffordshire Advertiser Wednesday 7 February 1866 p.7 col.3: COMMITTAL TO A REFORMATORY.--On Friday, at the Police Court, before H. Ward and J. Perks, Esqrs., Thomas Oakley, 14, and Charles Henry Bradley, 12, were charged with picking pockets at Lower Gornal, on Monday last. It appeared that a "Cheap John" was pursuing his business in the village, and a crowd had collected round, and two women, named Harriet Smart and Emma Harris, had their pockets picked, Smart of 8s., and the other woman of 2s. The prisoners were in the crowd, and, being suspected, were apprehended when they admitted having taken the 8s., and divided it between them, and had some beefsteaks, and Bradley said he had had the 2s., but his companion denied having had share of that. The parents of the prisoners live at Gornal, but have, it seemed, given them up, in consequence of their bad habits. According to their own statement, they have been to Birmingham, learning to steal, and spending their nights in engine houses, and other places, where they could gain shelter. They now appeared in a neglected condition. One of them had been previously convicted before this Bench. The Magistrates now sentenced them to six weeks' imprisonment, and to five years in a Reformatory at the expiration of that time. Oakley thanked the Bench, and said he hoped what they had given him would do him good.
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