| No. in Admissions Register: | 55 |
| Date of admission: | 16 September 1854 |
| Weekly payments: | 2s 6d |
| Age: | 15 |
| Education: | Indifferent |
| Previous employment: | Plasterer |
| Crimes, how often and in what prison: | - |
| Training in reformatory: | - |
| When left reformatory: | 15 January 1855 |
| Parentage and family: | Mother dead, father living at daughter’s |
| Residence: | 1 Wilson’s Buildings, back of 141 Unett Street, St George’s (Birmingham) |
| Trade of father: | - |
| With whom the boy is placed: | - |
| Address: | - |
| Trade: | - |
[There is another entry for this boy, no. 79 – click here]
11 September 1854 A brief description of John’s original crime in Aris's Birmingham Gazette 11 September 1854, p.1, col.4 says … Imprisonment … John King, aged 15, for stealing a watch and chain, value £9 10s, the property of William Swan, to be imprisoned fourteen days, and sent for four years to Saltley.
7 October 1854 in the Minute Book of the Reformatory it is recorded that John King, one of the four boys received under the Youthful Offenders Act by committal from the Borough Sessions, has absconded twice and since brought back.
29 January 1855 A brief report of a crime John committed while at the Reformatory in Aris’s Birmingham Gazette 29 January 1855, p.3 col.3 says At the Public Office on Monday last, before H Van Wart and R Martineau Esqrs, John King, an inmate of the Saltley Reformatory School, was charged with theft. King was committed to the school in September last. On the 12th inst. he reported himself to be unwell, and on the following day absconded, having broken open the box of Mr Chattock, the tailor instructor, and stole thereout £5. With this money he went to Portsmouth, and on returning to this town, was taken into custody. The magistrates committed him for trial at Warwick Sessions, Saltley being out of the borough.
31 March 1855 The crime and verdict at the Warwickshire Sessions were given in the Leamington Spa Courier Saturday 31 Mar 1855 p.3 col.4: John King : stealing at Aston, on the 12th of January last, three pounds fourteen shillings of Alfred Chittock; six months imprisonment.
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