| No. in Admissions Register: | 391 |
| Date of admission: | 15 December 1868 |
| Whence received: | Stafford Gaol |
| 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? | - |
| Particular marks: | - |
| Cutaneous disorder? | Not |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | Not apparent |
| Subject to fits? | No |
| Age last birthday: | 14 |
| Illegitimate? | - |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | - |
| Has resided: | Burton |
| Parish he belongs to: | Burton |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Waiter at a spirit vaults |
| Schools attended: | - |
| By whom and where employed: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | Imperfectly |
| Cyphers: | - |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | Stealing wine and spirits |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | - |
| Date of sentence: | 1 December 1868 |
| Where convicted: | Burton Petty Sessions |
| Who prosecuted: | - |
| Where imprisoned: | - |
| Sentence: | 14 days prison (hard labour), 2 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals and convictions: | None |
| Father's name: | James Comery |
| Occupation: | Maltster |
| Residence: | Castle Gresley Bewery, Burton |
| Mother's name: | Sarah Comery |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | - |
| Father's character: | - |
| Mother's character: | - |
| Parents dead? | - |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | - |
| Character of parents | Honest, sober, and in good circumstances |
| Parents' wages: | 20s per week |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | 1s 8d or 2s per week |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | Henry Burton, Staperhill, Burton |
| Relatives to communicate with: | - |
| Person making this return: | - |
| Estimate of character on admission: | - |
| Character on discharge: | - |
| When and how left the Reformatory: | - |
3 December 1868 There is a report of the crime in the Burton Chronicle Thursday 3 December 1868 p.4 col.5: ROBBERY BY SERVANTS.-George Hackett, a young man, and Mark Comery, a youth fourteen years of age, whose parents reside at Castle Gresley, were brought up in custody charged with stealing, on the 29th of November, one pint of whisky, two bottles of port wine, quantity of rum, and half-a-pound of tea, the property of Mr. W. H. Hodson, their employer. The prisoners pleaded guilty. Prosecutor deposed : Prisoners were my servants. On Sunday last, about half-past two o'clock, I sent Comery to draw the kitchen ale. Thinking him a long time away I left my dining room and went to the vaults. I stepped lightly along the hall and quickly opened the vaults' door, when I saw Comery with a glass in his left hand and a jug in the other. The jug he put amongst some others on a shelf behind him, and I found that it was full of rum. I immediately sent for the police, and having my suspicions of Hackett also he was detained until the officer arrived. The officer afterwards showed me two bottles of port wine, one bottle of whisky, small bottle of rum, and half a pound of tea, which I identified as my property.-Police constable Marshall, sworn, said : Last Sunday afternoon I was sent for to Mr. Hodson's house, and searched the premises at his request. I first found a bottle of port wine in the ashes pit, and subsequently in the same place another bottle of port wine, a bottle of whisky, and half-a-pound of tea, and in Hackett's box I found a small bottle of rum. I charged the prisoners with stealing that property. Hackett denied all but the one bottle of wine, and said, "The whisky Mark knows about." Mark denied it, but afterwards owned to being in the vaults when Hackett fetched the whisky, and took the bottle of rum to Hackett's box about a week ago.-Prisoners declined asking any questions. Mr. Hodson requested the Bench to deal leniently with the prisoners. In answer to the Bench, Mr. Hodson said that the youth had been guilty of a like offence several times previously. Hackett was sentenced to six calendar months imprisonment; and, with respect to Mark Comery, the Bench said they felt, under the circumstances, that the best thing they could do would be to send him to prison for fourteen days and to a reformatory afterwards for two years.
4 February 1869 His father was summoned a few weeks later for non-payment of maintenance. This is reported in the Burton Chronicle Thursday 4 February 1869 p.4 col.5: THE REFORMATORY ACT. -James Comery, maltster, employed at Messrs. Beard's brewery, Castle Gresley, was summoned to show cause why he should not pay something towards the maintenance of his son, Mark Cornery, now an inhabitant of Saltley Reformatory. The youth in question wee sent to the reformatory for stealing liquors from Mr. Higgott Hodson, wine and spirit merchant, Burton, and his confinement extends to the 14th of December, 1870.-Mr. Superintendent Oswell, who was instructed in this and several other cases by the Rev. Sydney Turner, inspector of reformatories, said that Comery obtained 18s weekly wages, and in conformity with instructions from Mr. Turner he applied for an order of a penny in every shilling the father earned.- Cornery said that his average wages were only 16s. per week; but the Magistrates considered the application a very liberal one, and made an order for the payment of 1s. 6d. per week.
28 August 1869 Absconded - brought back, or rather came back 26 August
28 August 1869 There is a short report about the return in the Staffordshire Advertiser Saturday 28 August 1869 p.7 col.3: DESERTERS.- Mark Comery, of Castle Gresley (committed by the Burton Bench for stealing spirits belonging to his master, about twelve months ago), and John Haslam, 16, of Gould's Green, West Bromwich. were brought up as runaways from the Saltley Reformatory. They escaped on Monday, came to Burton, and gave themselves up to the police this morning. They were ordered to be taken back to the Reformatory.
21 October 1870 Licensed
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