| No, in Admissions Register: | 183 |
| Date of admission: | 27 August 1860 |
| Whence received: | Stafford Gaol |
| By whom brought: | - |
| On what terms: | - |
| Friends interested in him: | - |
| Description: | |
| Height: | - |
| Figure: | - |
| Complexion: | Fair |
| Hair colour: | Light 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? | Has been vaccinated |
| Particular marks: | None |
| Cutaneous disorder? | Has rather a delicate build. Appears free from disease |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | No |
| Subject to fits? | No |
| Age last birthday: | 11 |
| Illegitimate? | No |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | Leek and Lowe [now just called Leek] |
| Has resided: | Derby Street, Leek |
| Parish to which he belongs: | Leek and Lowe |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Silk twister's helper |
| Schools attended: | - |
| By whom and where employed: | |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Not at all |
| Writes: | Not at all |
| Cyphers: | - |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | Stealing a door key |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Bad company and evil example |
| Date of sentence: | 13 August 1860 |
| Where convicted: | Leek |
| Where imprisoned: | Stafford |
| Sentence: | 14 days prison, 5 years detention at Saltley |
| Previous committals and convictions: | - |
| Father's name: | John Yates |
| Occupation: | Fruiterer and provisioner |
| Residence: | Derby Street, Leek, Staffordshire |
| Mother's name: | Ann Yates |
| Occupation: | None |
| Residence: | Derby Street, Leek, Staffordshire |
| Father's character: | No charge against him – sober generally |
| Mother's character: | Good |
| Parents dead? | No |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Negligent |
| Character of parents | Health good, generally sober |
| Parents' wages: | Not known, being a shopkeeper, etc |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | Probably about 2s per week |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | Thomas Wollaston, Leek, Staffordshire |
| Relatives to communicate with: | - |
| Person making this return: | Thomas Wollaston, Superintendent of Police, Leek |
| Estimate of character on admission: | - |
| Character on discharge: | - |
| When and how left the Reformatory: | - |
11 August 1860 There is a short report of the crime in the Staffordshire Advertiser, Saturday 11 August 1860, p.7, col.6: Joseph Yates, of Leek, silk twister, and Edward Yeomans, of Leek, mill piecer, were charged by George Goldstraw, servant Mr. Richardson, Bradnop, with having on the 2nd day of August feloniously stolen one key, of the value of 6d., the property of his master. Yeomans having been convicted on a previous charge, the magistrates awarded no punishment against him; and remanded Yates for a week, in order to his being sent to a reformatory.
10 June 1864 Attempted to abscond by getting the key in the night out of the cook's pocket, with 251 [Daniel Vale]
3 March 1865 Licensed to work for his father
January 1866 Doing well at Leek
January 1868 Father wrote that he was gone to sea.
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