| No. in Admissions Register: | 277 |
| Date of admission: | 14 June 1864 |
| Whence received: | Birmingham Gaol |
| By whom brought: | - |
| On what terms: | - |
| Friends interested in him: | - |
| Description: | |
| Height: | - |
| Figure: | - |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Brown |
| Eyes colour: | Brown |
| Perfect vision? | - |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Sound intellect? | Yes |
| Use of all limbs? | Yes |
| Had cow or small pox? | Cowpox |
| Particular marks: | Scars and moles on body |
| Cutaneous disorder? | No |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | No |
| Subject to fits? | No |
| Age last birthday: | 13 |
| Illegitimate? | Not |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | - |
| Has resided: | 54 Ladywood Lane, Birmingham |
| Parish he belongs to: | Leamigton |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Errand boy |
| Schools attended: | - |
| By whom and where employed: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | Imperfectly |
| Cyphers: | - |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | Stealing £4 and 180 receipt stamps |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Idleness |
| Date of sentence: | 1 June 1864 |
| Where convicted: | Moor Street before T C S Kynnersley |
| Who prosecuted: | - |
| Where imprisoned: | - |
| Sentence: | 14 days hard labour, 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals and convictions: | None |
| Father's name: | William Smith |
| Occupation: | Greens Assistant |
| Residence: | - |
| Mother's name: | Mary Smith |
| Occupation: | None – about to go into service |
| Residence: | - |
| Father's character: | - |
| Mother's character: | - |
| Parents dead? | - |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Good |
| Character of parents | Living separate for some years. Father at present in the hospital. |
| Parents' wages: | - |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | Nothing at present |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | - |
| Relatives to communicate with: | - |
| Person making this return: | T C S Kynnersley |
| Estimate of character on admission: | - |
| Character on discharge: | - |
| When and how left the Reformatory: | - |
2 June 1864 There is a report of the crime in the Birmingham Daily Gazette Thursday 2 June 1864 p.5 col.5: A NICE BOY.-A boy named Charles Smith, about twelve years of age, residing in Ladywood Lane, was brought up on remand, charged with stealing £4. and 15s. worth of receipt stamps from the shop of Mr. Osborne, stationer, Bennett's Hill. It appeared from the evidence, that on Friday last Detective sergeant Spokes took the prisoner into custody at a low lodging house in Hill Street. He had then in his pockets a number of receipt stamps, which he stated he had stolen from shop at Wolverhampton. He was taken to that town, when he stated that his story as to committing the robbery at Wolverhampton was false. He had taken the receipt stamps and also four sovereigns from Mr, Osborne's shop, where he had been employed. In the evening he concealed himself in the shop, stole the money and stamps, and let himself out of the shop in the morning. It was stated that the prisoner had been sent to prison at Longton, in the Potteries, for felony, and he was such a had lad that his parents would not own him. -The prisoner was sentenced to fourteen days* imprisonment with hard labour, and to be afterwards sent to a reformatory for five years.
29 July 1864 Absconded from work, caught immediately by J Kirk and brought back
22 February 1867 Absconded when horse boy in the morning
December 1870 Gone to sea and unknown
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