| No. in Admissions Register: | 238 |
| Date of admission: | 14 July 1862 |
| Whence received: | Walsall Gaol |
| By whom brought: | - |
| On what terms: | - |
| Friends interested in him: | - |
| Description: | |
| Height: | - |
| Figure: | - |
| Complexion: | Pale |
| Hair colour: | Brown |
| Eyes colour: | Hazel |
| Perfect vision? | Yes |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Sound intellect? | Yes |
| Use of all limbs? | Yes |
| Had cow or small pox? | Vaccinated |
| Particular marks: | - |
| Cutaneous disorder? | No |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | No |
| Subject to fits? | No |
| Age last birthday: | 9 |
| Illegitimate? | No |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | - |
| Has resided: | Ablewell Street, Walsall |
| Parish he belongs to: | Walsall |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Errand boy |
| Schools attended: | - |
| By whom and where employed: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfect |
| Writes: | Imperfect |
| Cyphers: | - |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | Simple larceny (stealing 2s) |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | General neglect at home |
| Date of sentence: | 30 June 1862 |
| Where convicted: | Walsall, before Henry Highway and Stephen Stokes |
| Who prosecuted: | - |
| Where imprisoned: | Walsall Borough Gaol |
| Sentence: | 14 days prison 4 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals and convictions: | Garden robbing (3 days) |
| Father's name: | - |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | - |
| Mother's name: | Mary Carpenter |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | Ablewell Street, Walsall |
| Father's character: | - |
| Mother's character: | Respectable |
| Parents dead? | Father |
| Survivor married again? | No |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Negligent |
| Character of parents | - |
| Parents' wages: | Not known |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | 1s per week |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | J W Cater, Chief Superintendent, Walsall |
| Relatives to communicate with: | - |
| Person making this return: | J W Cater, Walsall |
| Estimate of character on admission: | - |
| Character on discharge: | - |
| When and how left the Reformatory: | - |
5 July 1862 There is a report of the crime in the Walsall Free Press and General Advertiser Saturday 5 July 1862 p.4 col.1: STEALING FROM A TILL.-Thomas Carpenter, aged about ten years, was charged with having, on Friday last, stolen from the shop of Mrs. Harding, Lower Rushall Street. two shillings. It appeared the lad, who had been previously convicted, had on the afternoon of the day in question, been sent to the shop of Mrs Harding, and finding no one in the shop, he had taken two shillings from the till, and on being charged with the offence he admitted it, and returned money to Mrs. Harding. In order to have the lad sent to a reformatory the case was remanded for a week.
16 January 1866 Licensed
December 1867 Walsall. Doubtful [character]
November 1868 Liverpool. Doubtful
October 1869 Liverpool. Good
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