| No. in Admissions Register: | 290 |
| Date of admission: | 5 December 1864 |
| Whence received: | Birmingham |
| By whom brought: | - |
| On what terms: | - |
| Friends interested in him: | - |
| Description: | |
| Height: | - |
| Figure: | - |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Dark 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 on body |
| Cutaneous disorder? | No |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | No |
| Subject to fits? | No |
| Age last birthday: | 15 |
| Illegitimate? | - |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | - |
| Has resided: | Birmingham |
| Parish he belongs to: | Birmingham |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Brass founder |
| Schools attended: | - |
| By whom and where employed: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Not at all |
| Writes: | Not at all |
| Cyphers: | - |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | Stealing 5 brushes and a shovel |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | - |
| Date of sentence: | 22 November 1864 |
| Where convicted: | Moor Street before T C S Kynnersley |
| Who prosecuted: | - |
| Where imprisoned: | - |
| Sentence: | 14 days, 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals and convictions: | None |
| Father's name: | Josiah Newey |
| Occupation: | White washer |
| Residence: | 3 court 1 house Bow Street, Birmingham |
| Mother's name: | - |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | - |
| Father's character: | Honest but fond of drink |
| Mother's character: | - |
| Parents dead? | Neither |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Good |
| Character of parents | Health bad and in miserable circumstances |
| Parents' wages: | 5s per week and one boy 4s |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | None |
| 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: | - |
26 November 1864 There is a report of the offence. Although his first name is not given here, a previous report of his remand hearing does name him fully. The crime is recorded in the Birmingham Journal Saturday 26 November 1864 p.2 col.6: STEALING AND RECEIVING. - … A lad named Newey was charged with stealing, and Thomas Eggington with receiving, five brushes and a shovel, the property of Arthur Langford, 100, Charles Henry Street, lamp manufacturer. A boy named Davis was called as a witness, and it transpired that he stole the articles at the instigation of Newey, who received them of him and sold them to Eggington. Davis was then put in the box as a prisoner, and charged with complicity in the theft. Eggington pleaded guilty to having received the articles, but denied that he knew they were stolen at the time. He was committed to the Sessions. Newey was sentenced to fourteen days' imprisonment, and at the expiration of that time to be sent to a reformatory school for five years. The prisoner Davis was remanded for a week.
29 December 1864 Absconded with 289 [Robert Thomson]. Captured and returned next day
7 October 1865 Attempted to abscond with 245 [Frederick Evans] and 295 [John Webb] but was immediately caught and brought back
July 1870 At Plymouth. Doubtful [character]
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