| No. in Admissions Register: | 378 |
| Date of admission: | 27 March 1868 |
| Whence received: | Stafford |
| 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: | None |
| Cutaneous disorder? | No |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | Doubtful |
| Subject to fits? | Doubtful |
| Age last birthday: | 14 |
| Illegitimate? | - |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | - |
| Has resided: | Longton |
| Parish he belongs to: | Longton |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Pottery |
| Schools attended: | - |
| By whom and where employed: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Not at all |
| Writes: | Not at all |
| Cyphers: | - |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | Stealing combs |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Bad company |
| Date of sentence: | 16 March 1868 |
| Where convicted: | Longton before J H Goddard and J Lockett |
| Who prosecuted: | - |
| Where imprisoned: | - |
| Sentence: | 14 days prison, 4 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals and convictions: | None |
| Father's name: | - |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | - |
| Mother's name: | Sarah Scott |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | Barber Street, Longton |
| Father's character: | - |
| Mother's character: | - |
| Parents dead? | Father |
| Survivor married again? | Yes, to Samuel Scott who has absconded |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Good |
| Character of parents | Tolerably good mother |
| Parents' wages: | Very little |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | 1s per week |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | G Garnham, Longton |
| Relatives to communicate with: | - |
| Person making this return: | - |
| Estimate of character on admission: | - |
| Character on discharge: | - |
| When and how left the Reformatory: | - |
25 August 1866 There is a report of a possible previous offence in the Staffordshire Advertiser Saturday 25 August 1866 p,7 col.3: CHARGE OF CRUELTY TO FOWLS.-James Malbon, a lad, was charged by Edwin Barker, with cruelty to two of his chickens, at Longton. The defendant, by throwing stones, had wilfully injured one chicken so that it died, and broken the leg of another. His mother, evidently a very violent woman, appeared as her son's apologist, and justified the act on the ground that the fowls were trespassing in her back yard. On the lad promising not to repeat the offence he was let off on payment of costs.-The mother was consequently charged with using threatening language towards Jane Evans, and was ordered to find a surety for her good conduct for six months.
21 March 1868 The crime that sent him to Saltley is reported in the Staffordshire Advertiser Saturday 21 March 1868 p.7 col.6: THEFT BY BOYS. - Henry Holford, 13. James Malbon, 14, and Henry Ward. 13. were charged with stealing a bottle of scent and a dozen of combs, the property of David Parkinson. Holford and another boy, supposed to be one of the other prisoners, went Into the prosecutor's shop and stole the articles, all of them being afterwards found dealing with the combs. As to the scent, it was stated that the lads, suspecting it to be wine, one had a hearty taste of it. Holford and Malbon were sentenced to 14 days imprisonment, with a view to their being sent to a reformatory for four years each. Ward was sentenced to one day's imprisonment.
[No date] Sent to Queen's Hospital, ill with low(?) fever
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