| No. in Admissions Register: | 345 |
| Date of admission: | 4 December 1866 |
| Whence received: | Birmingham Gaol |
| By whom brought: | - |
| On what terms: | - |
| Friends interested in him: | - |
| Description: | |
| Height: | - |
| Figure: | - |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | 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: | Dimple in chin |
| Cutaneous disorder? | Not |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | Not |
| Subject to fits? | No |
| Age last birthday: | 12 |
| Illegitimate? | - |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | - |
| Has resided: | Icknield Street West, Birmingham |
| Parish he belongs to: | Birmingham |
| Customary work and mode of life: | - |
| Schools attended: | - |
| By whom and where employed: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | Imperfectly |
| Cyphers: | - |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | Stealing a ring |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | - |
| Date of sentence: | 14 November 1866 |
| Where convicted: | Moor Street |
| Who prosecuted: | - |
| Where imprisoned: | - |
| Sentence: | 21 days prison, 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals and convictions: | One |
| Father's name: | John Stobie |
| Occupation: | Engraver |
| Residence: | back of 3 Hockley Terrace, Hockley, Birmingham |
| Mother's name: | - |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | - |
| Father's character: | - |
| Mother's character: | - |
| Parents dead? | Not |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Said to be good |
| Character of parents | - |
| Parents' wages: | 12s per week |
| Amount parents agree 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: | - |
15 November 1866 There is a report of the crime in the Birmingham Daily Post Thursday 15 November 1866 p.7 col.2: INCORRIGIBLE YOUNG THiEVES.-Francis Stobie (12), Key Hill, no occupation, was charged, on remand, with stealing a gold ring from the shop of Mr. John Mole, jeweller, Bull Street. Mr. Kynnersley said, although very young, the prisoner had been several times previously in custody. Two years ago, he was convicted at Aston, and this year he was charged with stealing a watch, which he had afterwards pawned The watch was redeemed by his mother, and the prosecutor declined to press the charge, in consequence of which he then escaped punishment. Subsequently he was arrested for stealing boots, and again escaped punishment, the pro- secutor being too good-natured to press the charge. Since that a warrant had been granted for his apprehension, for having destroyed some shrubs belonging to the Lon- don and North-Western Railway Company. Detective inspector Kelly said there was another case against the prisoner, for having stolen a silver watch from the shop of Mr. Hardman, jeweller, Bull Street. In reply to the charge, the prisoner said he was guilty of stealing the ring, and added that if the Magistrates would not send him to prison for a longer term than seven days for that theft, he would never offend again. Mr. Kynnersley said it was necessary to prevent the prisoner from continuing his career of crime, and sentenced him to twenty-one days' imprisonment in the House of Correction, and at the expiration of that time to be confined in a reformatory school for five years.
18 May 1869 Sent to Queen's Hospital, ill of scarlet fever
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