| No. in Admissions Register: | 586 |
| Age: | 11 |
| Whence received: | Birmingham Borough Prison |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | - |
| Hair colour: | - |
| Eyes colour: | - |
| Visage: | - |
| Particular marks: | - |
| State of health: | - |
| Able-bodied? | - |
| Date of admission and term: | 13 November 1877 5 years |
| Late residence: | 240 Moseley Road |
| Parish he belongs to: | Birmingham |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Stone breaking |
| Whether illegitimate: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | Imperfectly |
| Offence: | Stealing 5 handkerchiefs |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | - |
| Date of sentence, by who and court: | 24 October 1877, Moor Street, T C S Kynnersley |
| Where imprisoned: | Birmingham |
| Sentence: | 21 days prison (hard labour), 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | - |
| Length: | - |
| For what: | - |
| Father's name: | John Langford |
| Occupation: | Porter |
| Mother's name: | Charlotte Langford |
| Occupation: | - |
| Parents dead? | - |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Fair |
| Character of parents | Fair |
| Parents' wages: | Not known – mother keeps a greengrocery shop |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | - |
| Parents address: | 240 Moseley Road, Birmingham |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | - |
| Person making this return: | - |
17 April 1881 Walter calls and says he is doing well. Is working for Mr Huskins, Heathmill Lane earning 7s 6d per week, 8s 6d when he works overtime
22 June 1881 3 months imprisonment for being on premises for an unlawful purpose
11 September 1881 Calls and says he is living at 1 court 2 house Moseley Street and works for Mr Price Old Meeting Street, Birmingham, as a painter
9 October 1882 Released from gaol and returns October 31st on Incidental as no licence. There is a newspaper clipping attached to the Admissions Register relating to the offence which sent him to gaol from the Birmingham Mail Monday 9 January 1882 p.3 col.4: YOUNG THIEVES. George Browett (l3), no trade; Walter Langford (17), polisher; and Thomas Sennett (16), filer, were charged with stealing, on the 11th December last, a pair of scales, the goods of Mr. Shipway, of Barford Street. Browett pleaded guilty. On the night of the 11th December the attention of Police-constable Farr was attracted by the noise of breaking glass in a passage in Barford Street. He then noticed the prisoners and others rushing out of the passage along the street. Browett had the scales in his hand and threw them into a shop. The glass the constable heard breaking was a bottle containing sweets, which the boys had stolen from another shop. Langford and Sennett were found guilty, and sentenced to nine months and six months' imprisonment respectively ; Browett, whom the court thought had been urged on by his companions, was sentenced to one month's imprisonment.
[There is another, shorter clipping which seems to relate to the crime which sent him to Salltley attached to the Admissions Register, source as yet unidentified]
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