| No. in Admissions Register: | 295 |
| Date of admission: | 20 January 1865 |
| Whence received: | Stafford |
| By whom brought: | - |
| On what terms: | - |
| Friends interested in him: | - |
| Description: | |
| Height: | - |
| Figure: | - |
| Complexion: | Dark |
| Hair colour: | Brown |
| Eyes colour: | Brown |
| Perfect vision? | Yes |
| State of health: | - |
| Able-bodied? | - |
| Sound intellect? | Yes |
| Use of all limbs? | Yes |
| Had cow or small pox? | Cowpox |
| Particular marks: | Scar of left eyebrow and nose |
| Cutaneous disorder? | No |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | Not apparent |
| Subject to fits? | No |
| Age last birthday: | 15 |
| Illegitimate? | - |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | - |
| Has resided: | Wolverhampton |
| Parish he belongs to: | Wolverhampton |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Night latch maker |
| Schools attended: | - |
| By whom and where employed: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Not at all |
| Writes: | Not at all |
| Cyphers: | - |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | Breaking into a school and larceny therein |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Bad company |
| Date of sentence: | 20 October 1864 |
| Where convicted: | Wolverhampton Quarter Sessions |
| Who prosecuted: | - |
| Where imprisoned: | - |
| Sentence: | 3 months, 3 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals and convictions: | One |
| Father's name: | Joseph Webb |
| Occupation: | Iron brazier |
| Residence: | Crown Court, Falkland Street, Wolverhampton |
| Mother's name: | Own mother dead |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | - |
| Father's character: | Good |
| Mother's character: | - |
| Parents dead? | Mother |
| Survivor married again? | Yes – Mary Webb (stepmother) |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Good |
| Character of parents | - |
| Parents' wages: | 18s to 20s per week |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | - |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | - |
| Relatives to communicate with: | - |
| Person making this return: | W Fulford, Stafford |
| Estimate of character on admission: | - |
| Character on discharge: | - |
| When and how left the Reformatory: | - |
10 August 1864 There is a report of a previous, crime in the Wolverhampton Chronicle and Staffordshire Advertiser Wednesday 10 August 1864 p.4 col.4: BREAKING INTO ST PAUL'S SCHOOL.-Two lads about twelve years of age. named James Plant and John Welch [a brief report in another newspaper gives the name of the second boy as John Webb], were brought before J, Hawksford (the Mayor), T. S. Simkiss, and C. B. Mander, Esqs., at the Police Court, yesterday, charged with having broken into St. Paul's Schools, in Merridale Street, and stealing therefrom the sum of £2. Mr. Sowray, the schoolmaster, stated that he left the two missionary boxes produced and twelve others, in the school on Sunday afternoon, and on the following Monday morning he discovered that the school had been entered by someone, in the interval, and the fourteen boxes, which were kept in a cupboard, and their contents taken away. Mrs. Groves, the person employed to clean the school stated that she was the first person to into the schools on Monday morning, and found the cupboard doors in the boys' room, and the entrance door to the girls' room to the class room burst open. She afterwards gave information to the schoolmaster.-A youth, named Robert Lee, said that between nine and ten o'clock on Sunday night, he saw the two prisoners coming over the privy wall leading from the girls' playground in connection with the above schools, and after dropping into an adjoining field, they both ran off.-lt was in consequence of the information thus received that the prisoners, who are both old offenders were arrested on suspicion.-On the application of the Chief Constable, the Bench remanded them until Saturday next, to give Inspector Butler an opportunity of obtaining additional evidence.
26 October 1864 There is a very brief report of the crime in the Wolverhampton Chronicle and Staffordshire Advertiser Wednesday 10 August 1864 p.4 col.4: THE ROBBERY FROM ST PAUL'S SCHOOL - JAMES PLANT, JOHN WEBB, and THOMAS ROACH, three boys, for breaking into Si. Paul's school-room and stealing the contents of the missionary boxes, each three months' imprisonment, to be followed by three years at a Reformatory.
7 October 1865 Attempted to abscond with 245 [Henry Rowley] and 290 [William Smith] but were all three caught in Hand's Field [near the Reformatory] and brought back in five minutes.
13 February 1867 Absconded
20 March 1867 Apprehended at Wolverhampton and brought back
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