| No. in Admissions Register: | 328 |
| Date of admission: | 5 February 1866 |
| Whence received: | Stafford |
| 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? | Yes |
| Sound intellect? | Yes |
| Use of all limbs? | Yes |
| Had cow or small pox? | Smallpox |
| Particular marks: | Warts near right ankle |
| Cutaneous disorder? | No |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | Yes |
| Subject to fits? | Not |
| Age last birthday: | 12 |
| Illegitimate? | No |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | - |
| Has resided: | Wolverhampton |
| Parish he belongs to: | - |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Chainmaking |
| Schools attended: | - |
| By whom and where employed: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Not at all |
| Writes: | Not at all |
| Cyphers: | - |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | Stealing oranges |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Bad company |
| Date of sentence: | 4 January 1866 |
| Where convicted: | Wolverhampton Petty Sessions before J J Powell |
| Who prosecuted: | - |
| Where imprisoned: | - |
| Sentence: | 1 month prison, 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals and convictions: | One |
| Father's name: | John Newell |
| Occupation: | Stoker at gas works |
| Residence: | Little lane, Stafford Street, Wolverhampton |
| Mother's name: | [Mary Newell] |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | - |
| Father's character: | Not very good. Health good. |
| Mother's character: | Not very good. Health good. |
| Parents dead? | - |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Good |
| Character of parents | - |
| Parents' wages: | - |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | 3d per week |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | Captain Segram |
| Relatives to communicate with: | - |
| Person making this return: | - |
| Estimate of character on admission: | - |
| Character on discharge: | - |
| When and how left the Reformatory: | - |
[Brother of John, boy 326. To see hhis record click here ]
11 October 1865 There is a long report of the crime in the Wolverhampton Chronicle and Staffordshire Advertiser Wednesday 11 October 1865 p.6 col.3: JUVENILE SHOPLIFTERS. - Two boys, Thomas Prendergast and Thomas Newell, ol the respective ages of eleven and nine, were charged in two cases of shop robbery, A young man named Fenny stated that on the previous afternoon he went into the .shop of Mr. Bates, fruiterer, Snow-hill, to purchase a pennyworth of apples. When he got inside the shop, the prisoner Newell sprang up from behind the counter, and witness thinking that he was the person in charge of the place, asked for a pennyworth of apples. Just at that moment a second lad, very like the prisoner Prendergast, came to the door, and muttered some unintelligible words to the lad Newell upon which the latter ran out of the shop, and, with his companion, disappeared.. Mrs. Bates then came into the shop, from the back, and witness told her what he had seen. She immediately examined the till under the counter, and found that it had been emptied of its contents - about 9s. She went to the door, and saw the prisoner Newell running away down Bell-street. She next saw Prendergast, and on accusing him with having been in company with Newell he ran away also. Mrs. Margaret Carter, a small shopkeeper, in Piper's-row, stated that between two and three o'clock the previous afternoon she had occasion to leave her shop for a few moments, and on her return she saw the prisoner Newell stooping down at the back of the counter. Prendergast was also in the shop, at the other side of the counter, and when she entered Newell was in the act of throwing a half- pound packet of sugar over the counter to Prendergast, Witness at once seized hold of Newell, and was attempting to capture the other lad, when he struck her a blow and ran away, with something under his arm. She handed Newell over to the police, and Prendergast was shortly afterwards apprehended. The latter only returned from a reformatory about twelve months ago [boy 185], and was described by Captain Segrave as one of the most impudent young blackguards in the town. They were both remanded until Tuesday, when a further remand took place until Thursday.
24 August 1869 Absconded
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