| No. in Admissions Register: | 279 |
| Date of admission: | 27 July 1864 |
| Whence received: | Stafford Gaol |
| By whom brought: | - |
| On what terms: | - |
| Friends interested in him: | - |
| Description: | |
| Height: | - |
| Figure: | - |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Brown |
| Eyes colour: | Hazel |
| Perfect vision? | - |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | - |
| Sound intellect? | Yes |
| Use of all limbs? | Yes |
| Had cow or small pox? | Cowpox |
| Particular marks: | Cut on forehead |
| Cutaneous disorder? | Not |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | No |
| Subject to fits? | - |
| Age last birthday: | 9 |
| Illegitimate? | Yes |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | - |
| Has resided: | Kidsgrove |
| Parish he belongs to: | Wolstanton |
| Customary work and mode of life: | - |
| Schools attended: | - |
| By whom and where employed: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | Imperfectly |
| Cyphers: | - |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | Breaking into an office |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Bad company |
| Date of sentence: | 6 July 1864 |
| Where convicted: | Longton before James Glover |
| Who prosecuted: | - |
| Where imprisoned: | - |
| Sentence: | 21 days, 4 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals and convictions: | None |
| Father's name: | John Worthington |
| Occupation: | Collier |
| Residence: | Kidsgrove |
| Mother's name: | Eliza |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | - |
| Father's character: | - |
| Mother's character: | - |
| Parents dead? | - |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Good |
| Character of parents | Honest and healthy. Father drunken |
| Parents' wages: | 24s per week |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | 1s 6d |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | Elijah Scott, Tunstall |
| Relatives to communicate with: | - |
| Person making this return: | - |
| Estimate of character on admission: | - |
| Character on discharge: | - |
| When and how left the Reformatory: | - |
9 July 1864 There is a report of the crime in the Staffordshire Advertiser Saturday 9 July 1864 p.7 col.6: JUVENILE THIEVES - Two boys named John Biddell and Enoch Worthington, were charged with having stolen 7s. 4d. the property of Mrs. Mary Kinnersley, at Kidsgrove, on the night of Monday last. The prisoners took a pane of glass out of the window of the office of the prosecutrix, by which means they gained an entrance. They then forced open a desk, from which they took the money The prisoners pleaded guilty. They were ordered to be imprisoned 21 days and then sent to a reformatory for four years.
27 July 1868 Discharged on expiration of his term. Went home with his father
January 1870 In Kidsgrove. Good [character]
January 1871 In Kidsgrove. Good [character]
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