| No. in Admissions Register: | 453 |
| Age: | 14 |
| Whence received: | Birmingham Gaol |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Dark brown |
| Eyes colour: | Grey |
| Visage: | - |
| Particular marks: | Mole on left side of stomach |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Date of admission and term: | 13 September 1871 5 years |
| Late residence: | 13 court 4 house Sheep Street, Birmingham |
| Parish he belongs to: | Birmingham |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Button maker |
| Whether illegitimate: | No |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Not at all |
| Writes: | Not at all |
| Offence: | Stealing 3 files |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Not known |
| Date of sentence, by who and court: | 31 August 1871, Birmingham Police Court, T C S Kynnersley |
| Where imprisoned: | Birmingham, Borough Gaol |
| Sentence: | 14 days prison (hard labour), 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | None |
| Length: | - |
| For what: | - |
| Father’s name: | Dead |
| Occupation: | - |
| Mother's name: | Mary Baxter |
| Occupation: | Button carder |
| Parents dead? | - |
| Survivor married again? | Not |
| Parents’ treatment of child: | Kind |
| Character of parents | Good |
| Parents’ wages: | About 7s per week |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | No sum mentioned |
| Parents address: | 13 court 4 house Sheep Street, Birmingham |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | |
| Person making this return: | D Meaden |
1 September 1871 There is a report of the crime, but with an erroneous first name given, in the Birmingham Daily Gazette Friday 1 September 1871 p.6 col.5: STEALING FILES.-Richard Baxter (14) [first name given as thus], glass button maker, 13 Court, Sheep Street, was charged with stealing three files from a workshop of Hammond, Turner, and Son, Snow Hill, belonging to one of the workmen.- The prisoner had been in Mr. Turner's service for about six years, and during the last three months prisoner had been suspected of committing petty thefts. On Wednesday morning a number of files were found concealed in the corner of a work room. At one o'clock the prisoner was seen pass through the shop, and immediately after the files were missed. Prisoner was followed, and apprehended. On being searched three file handles and 1½d. were found on the prisoner. He admitted, when charged, that he took the files and sold them without the bandies for 1½d -He was sent to gaol for 14 days, and afterwards to Saltley Reformatory for five years.
20 January 1875 Licensed to work for H Matthews, 15 Whitehead Street
16 October 1875 Working for W Wood, brassfounder, Sheep Street, Aston
6 December 1875 Working for W Wood, brassfounder, Sheep Street, Aston
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