| No. in Admissions Register: | 169 |
| Date of admission: | 23 April 1860 |
| Whence received: | Birmingham Borough Gaol |
| By whom brought: | - |
| On what terms: | - |
| Friends interested in him: | |
| Description: | |
| Height: | - |
| Figure: | - |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Dark brown |
| Eyes colour: | Grey |
| Perfect vision? | Yes |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Sound intellect? | Yes |
| Use of all limbs? | Yes |
| Had cow or small pox? | Yes |
| Particular marks: | Moles and scars on body |
| Cutaneous disorder? | No |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | No |
| Subject to fits? | No |
| Age last birthday: | 14 |
| Illegitimate? | No |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | - |
| Has resided: | 9 court 6 house Fordrough Street, Birmingham |
| Parish to which he belongs: | Birmingham |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Seal maker |
| Schools attended: | - |
| By whom and where employed: | |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | Imperfectly |
| Cyphers: | - |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | Stealing one pound of bacon |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | - |
| Date of sentence: | 10 April 1860 |
| Where convicted: | Moor Street |
| Where imprisoned: | Borough Gaol |
| Sentence: | 14 days prison, 5 years detention at Saltley |
| Previous committals and convictions: | Larceny; firing a pistol in the street |
| Father's name: | William Dawes |
| Occupation: | Bellhanger and locksmith |
| Residence: | - |
| Mother's name: | Mary Dawes |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | - |
| Father's character: | Seems a poor harmless man |
| Mother's character: | She was with the boy when he stole the bacon and appeared to be 'covering him' with her basket |
| Parents dead? | Father |
| Survivor married again? | No |
| Parents' treatment of child: | - |
| Character of parents | - |
| Parents' wages: | On an average, 17s per week |
| Amount parents agree tp pay: | 1s per week. Father has bad health and 8 children, one blind and another a cripple |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | |
| Relatives to communicate with: | - |
| Person making this return: | T C S Kymmersley, Esq., |
| Estimate of character on admission: | - |
| Character on discharge: | - |
| When and how left the Reformatory: |
11 April 1860 There is a report of his crime in the Birmingham Daily Post Wednesday 11 April 1860 p.2 col.6: THE CHARGE OF STEALING A PIECE OF BACON. - A lad previously convicted. named Henry Dawes, living in Fordrough Street, was brought up on remand from the previous day, charged with stealing a piece of bacon, value 1s., the property of Mr Walford, bacon curer, Dale End. It seems the prosecutor has a stall in the Market Hall for the sale of bacon, &c. On Ssturday evening the shopman saw the prisoner take a piece of bacon weighing about a pound from the stall, and walk off with it. The man followed, and caught him with the stolen article in his possession. The prisoner pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to fourteen days' imprisonment, and at the expiraton of that term to be sent to a Reformatory School for five years. Mr Kynnersley ordered that the parents might he summoned to contribute towards the maintenance of the prisoner.
18 April 1863 Let out on leave to work for Mr William Braddock, smith, Sherborne Road, Sherlock Street, Birmingham
5 October 1863 Note from Cooper Bros and Cox, Islington Foundry, 11-14 Ryland Street North, Birmingham: Henry Dawes has been in our employ some months. Has behaved well.
8 October 1863 Called at the school. Not in good health but earning an honest living.
August 1866 Doing well
October 1867 Doing well
January 1868 In the 32nd Light Infantry
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