| No. in Admissions Register: | 308 |
| Date of admission: | 5 July 1865 |
| Whence received: | Stafford |
| By whom brought: | - |
| On what terms: | - |
| Friends interested in him: | - |
| Description: | |
| Height: | - |
| Figure: | - |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Light brown |
| Eyes colour: | Grey |
| Perfect vision? | Yes |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Sound intellect? | Yes |
| Use of all limbs? | Yes |
| Had cow or small pox? | Vaccinated 23 June 1865 |
| Particular marks: | Mole on right cheek |
| Cutaneous disorder? | No |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | Not apparent |
| Subject to fits? | None |
| Age last birthday: | 13 |
| Illegitimate? | No |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | - |
| Has resided: | Harriseahead, Staffordshire |
| Parish he belongs to: | Tunstall |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Farming work with a horse and cart |
| Schools attended: | - |
| By whom and where employed: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Nil |
| Writes: | Nil |
| Cyphers: | - |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | Stealing £2 3s 10d |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | - |
| Date of sentence: | 5 June 1865 |
| Where convicted: | Newcastle under Lyme Petty Sessions before C H Mainwairing and others |
| Who prosecuted: | - |
| Where imprisoned: | Stafford |
| Sentence: | 1 month in prison, 4 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals and convictions: | Nil |
| Father's name: | John Webster |
| Occupation: | Miner |
| Residence: | Not known – the boy says he last heard from them at Manchester |
| Mother's name: | Mary Webster |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | - |
| Father's character: | - |
| Mother's character: | - |
| Parents dead? | Not known |
| Survivor married again? | Not known |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Good |
| Character of parents | Not known |
| Parents' wages: | About 16s per week |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | - |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | - |
| Relatives to communicate with: | - |
| Person making this return: | W Mountford, Stafford |
| Estimate of character on admission: | - |
| Character on discharge: | - |
| When and how left the Reformatory: | - |
10 June 1865 There is a report of the crime in the Staffordshire Advertiser Saturday 10 June 1865 p.7 col.4: A BOY ROBBING HIS EMPLOYER-Jesse Webster, a lad about 14 years of age, pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing £2 13s 10d from his master, Mr Thomas Ford, grocer and publican, of Harriseahead. Mr Ford said he did not wish to press the case against the lad, who could neither read nor write, and had not a relation or friend in the world except himself. The prisoner was sent to the house of correction with hard labour for one month, and the Bench ordered that arrangements should be made to send him to a reformatory school.
4 July 1869 Discharged
October 1870 At Newcastle. Good [character]
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