| No. in Admissions Register: | 543 |
| Age: | 14 |
| Whence received: | Birmingham Borough Prison |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Brown |
| Eyes colour: | Grey |
| Visage: | - |
| Particular marks: | Scar on left side |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Date of admission and term: | 23 March 1876 5 years |
| Late residence: | 1 court 18 house New Summer Street, Birmingham |
| Parish he belongs to: | Birmingham |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Printer |
| Whether illegitimate: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Not at all |
| Writes: | Not at all |
| Offence: | Stealing 5 fowls |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | - |
| Date of sentence, by who and court: | 3 March 1876, Birmingham Police Court, T C S Kynnersley |
| Where imprisoned: | Birmingham |
| Sentence: | 21 days prison (hard labour), 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | None |
| Length: | - |
| For what: | - |
| Father's name: | William Wright |
| Occupation: | Button Turner |
| Mother's name: | Elizabeth Wright |
| Occupation: | - |
| Parents dead? | No |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | - |
| Character of parents | Father drinks |
| Parents' wages: | - |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | - |
| Parents address: | 1 court 18 house New Summer Street, Birmingham |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | - |
| Person making this return: | - |
4 March 1876 There is a report of the crime in Aris's Birmingham Gazette Saturday 4 March 1876 p.6 col.7: A BAD BOY.-William Wright, a boy 13 years o£ age, was charged with stealing five fowls from New Street Station, the property of the London and North Western Railway Company.-About half-past eight o'clock on Thursday night the prisoner was seen by one of the company's police-officers approaching the station gates with five fowls in his possession. The officer asked who they belonged to, and the prisoner replied that they were his master's, and had just been brought from Stechford. Not satisfied with this statement the officer detained the boy, who subsequently admitted he had taken them from one of the platforms. - Prisoner's mother now stated, in answer to the Bench, that her son was usually a very good boy.-Detective Helden said he had recently investigated a case in which the prisoner had robbed his master of a cashbox, but the master had declined to make any charge before the magistrates. A previous conviction for felony was recorded against the prisoner, and he was now sent to prison for twenty-one days, and ordered to be detained in a reformatory school for five years.
10 October 1877 Licensed
22 January 1882 Saw Wright in company with G Thomas [boy 570] as we were coming from church this morning
20 February 1882 Calder [boy 525] says Wright is living in George Street, Hospital Street, Birmingham
21 May 1882 Wright is living at above arms(?) works, New Market Street, Birmingham
23 February 1888 Evan Williams [boy 541] reports Wright as doing well as a polisher and living in Whitmore Street, Hockley
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