| No. in Admissions Register: | 321 |
| Date of admission: | 23 November 1865 |
| Whence received: | Stafford |
| By whom brought: | - |
| On what terms: | - |
| Friends interested in him: | - |
| Description: | |
| Height: | - |
| Figure: | - |
| Complexion: | Ruddy |
| Hair colour: | Dark brown |
| Eyes colour: | Dark grey |
| Perfect vision? | Yes |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Sound intellect? | Yes |
| Use of all limbs? | Yes |
| Had cow or small pox? | Cowpox |
| Particular marks: | None |
| Cutaneous disorder? | No |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | Scar under chin |
| Subject to fits? | Not |
| Age last birthday: | 15 |
| Illegitimate? | No |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | - |
| Has resided: | Pensnett, Kingswinford |
| Parish he belongs to: | Kingswinford |
| Customary work and mode of life: | - |
| Schools attended: | - |
| By whom and where employed: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Well |
| Writes: | Well |
| Cyphers: | - |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | Stealing a handkerchief |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Bad company |
| Date of sentence: | 9 November 1865 |
| Where convicted: | Brierley Hill |
| Who prosecuted: | - |
| Where imprisoned: | - |
| Sentence: | 14 days prison, 3 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals and convictions: | Stealing a jacket (1 month); vagrancy (3 months) |
| Father's name: | Samuel Doggett |
| Occupation: | Blacksmith |
| Residence: | Pensnett, Kingswinford |
| Mother's name: | Mary Doggett |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | - |
| Father's character: | - |
| Mother's character: | - |
| Parents dead? | Neither |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Good |
| Character of parents | Honest and generally in good health. Has a large family, all young |
| Parents' wages: | 24s a week |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | 1s per week |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | Superintendent Mills, Brierley Hill |
| Relatives to communicate with: | - |
| Person making this return: | - |
| Estimate of character on admission: | - |
| Character on discharge: | - |
| When and how left the Reformatory: | - |
15 July 1865 A previous offence was reported in the County Advertiser and Herald for Staffordshire and Worcestershire Saturday 15 July 1865 p.5 col.1: William Doggett was brought up charged with being on the premises of Edward Jones. labourer, Pensnett, with intent to commit a felony. The prisoner and two others were detected in the act of stealing some ducks from a pigstye, but his companions contrived to effect their escape. Mr. Superintendent Mills informed the magistrate that the prisoner had been sentenced to a month's imprisonment for a felony committed in February last. Sentence, three months' hard labour.
11 November 1865 The crime was reported in the County Advertiser and Herald for Staffordshire and Worcestershire Saturday 11 November 1865 p.5 col.3: STEALING A DINNER.-On Thursday,. at the Police Court, before Mr. Isaac Spooner, Stipendiary magistrate Benjamin Turner and William Doggett, two youths, were charged with stealing a dinner, the property of Joseph Evans. On Wednesday week the prosecutor, who is a labourer on the roads at Pensnett, deposed that he saw the prisoners unhang his dinner from a nail in a hovel close by the place where he was at work, and run away with it. Turner had been twice previously convicted,. and Doggett had been once convicted, of felony. The learned magistrate sentenced Turner to three months' hard labour, and Doggett he sentenced to fourteen days' imprisonment and three years in a Reformatory.
22 November 1868 Discharged
January 1869 At Plymouth on training ship
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