| No. in Admissions Register: | 473 |
| Age: | 13 |
| Whence received: | Walsall |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | Fair |
| Hair colour: | Auburn |
| Eyes colour: | Grey |
| Visage: | - |
| Particular marks: | Upon left thigh |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Date of admission and term: | 31 August 1872 |
| Late residence: | 25 Whitehouse Street, Walsall |
| Parish he belongs to: | Walsall |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Chain making |
| Whether illegitimate: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | - |
| Offence: | Fowl stealing |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | - |
| Date of sentence, by who and court: | 23 August 1872, Walsall Police Court |
| Where imprisoned: | Stafford |
| Sentence: | 10 days prison (hard labour), 3 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | None known |
| Length: | - |
| For what: | - |
| Father’s name: | Thomas Courtney |
| Occupation: | - |
| Mother's name: | Mary Courtney |
| Occupation: | - |
| Parents dead? | - |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents’ treatment of child: | Well |
| Character of parents | Father drunken |
| Parents’ wages: | 30s per week |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | 2s per week |
| Parents address: | - |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | Mr Cater |
| Person making this return: | - |
24 August 1872 There is a report of the crime in the Birmingham Daily Post Saturday 24 August 1872 p.7 col.5: JUVENILE DELINQUENTS. - On Thursday, at the Guildhall, Arthur Jones, aged 14; who on Monday was sentenced to 14 days' imprisonment, to be followed by.3 years' detention in a reformatory, for stealing pigeons, the property of Mr. B. Hodgson, was brought up on remand, charged with having, along with William Courtenay, aged 13, stolen four game fowls, the property of .Mr. Washbourne, and three tame rabbits, the property of Mr. J. Hildick, Stafford Street. They were each sentenced to a nominal term of imprisonment for each offence;. an order being. also made that Courtenay should be sent to a reformatory. There was a further charge against them of stealing rabbits, the property of Mr. Lucas, Dudley Street, but It was not gone into.
15 May 1873 Transferred to St Bernard's [another reformatory, in Leicestershire]
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