| No. in Admissions Register: | 235 |
| Date of admission: | 5 April 1862 |
| Whence received: | Stafford Gaol |
| By whom brought: | - |
| On what terms: | - |
| Friends interested in him: | - |
| Description: | |
| Height: | - |
| Figure: | Rather slight |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Red |
| 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? | Cowpox |
| Particular marks: | - |
| Cutaneous disorder? | No |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | Not apparent |
| Subject to fits? | No |
| Age last birthday: | 15 |
| Illegitimate? | No |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | - |
| Has resided: | Leek |
| Parish he belongs to: | Leek |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Silk twister's helper |
| Schools attended: | - |
| By whom and where employed: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | Imperfectly |
| Cyphers: | - |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | Felony - stealing in a dwelling house to the value of £5 and upwards |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | - |
| Date of sentence: | 5 March 1862 |
| Where convicted: | Stafford Quarter Sessions |
| Who prosecuted: | - |
| Where imprisoned: | - |
| Sentence: | 1 month prison, 3 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals and convictions: | - |
| Father's name: | Samuel Crombie |
| Occupation: | Weaver |
| Residence: | Leek |
| Mother's name: | Jane Crombie |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | - |
| Father's character: | - |
| Mother's character: | - |
| Parents dead? | - |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Good |
| Character of parents | - |
| Parents' wages: | - |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | - |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | Superintendent Woolaston, Leek |
| Relatives to communicate with: | - |
| Person making this return: | - |
| Estimate of character on admission: | - |
| Character on discharge: | - |
| When and how left the Reformatory: | - |
8 March 1862 There is a report of the crime, somewhat different in details from that given in the Admissions Register, above, in the Staffordshire Advertiser Saturday 8 March 1862 p.6 col.6: JOSEPH CROMBIE, 14, factory worker, was charged with stealing one gold watch and one gold chain, the property of Messrs. J. Beri and Delara, furniture dealers, &c., Custard Street, Leek. The jury found the prisoner guilty, and was sentenced to one month's imprisonment, and was ordered to be confined in a reformatory for three years at the expiration of that time.
20 April 1864 Sent to the Queens Hospital ill of rheumatic fever
24 June 1864 Fetched back. Said to be recovered, but in a very weakly state
9 July [1864? No year given] Sent home to work under care of his father
December 1866 Doing well, but rather in poor circumstances
January 1868 Doing well, but rather in poor circumstances at Leek
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