| No. in Admissions Register: | 334 |
| Date of admission: | 15 May 1866 |
| 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? | - |
| Particular marks: | - |
| Cutaneous disorder? | No |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | Not |
| Subject to fits? | No |
| Age last birthday: | 15 |
| Illegitimate? | - |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | - |
| Has resided: | Barford Street, Birmingham |
| Parish he belongs to: | Birmingham |
| Customary work and mode of life: | - |
| Schools attended: | - |
| By whom and where employed: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Not at all |
| Writes: | Not at all |
| Cyphers: | - |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | Stealing clothing |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Bad company |
| Date of sentence: | 2 May 1866 |
| Where convicted: | Moor Street |
| Who prosecuted: | - |
| Where imprisoned: | - |
| Sentence: | 14 days' prison (hard labour), 4 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals and convictions: | Stealing pigeons (1 month) |
| Father's name: | - |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | - |
| Mother's name: | Ann Maria Checkley |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | Malt Shovel Yard, Moland Street, Birmingham |
| Father's character: | - |
| Mother's character: | - |
| Parents dead? | Father |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | - |
| Character of parents | - |
| Parents' wages: | - |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | Not able to pay |
| 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: | - |
3 May 1866 There is a report of the crime in the Birmingham Daily Post Thursday 3 May 1866 p.6 col.3: NIGHTLY THIEVES. - Mark Checkley (15), nail caster, Bissell Street, and William Smith (16), Charles Henry Street. were charged with having stolen a quantity of wet linen from the premises of Mr. Hirons, Ravenhurst Street. Early yesterday morning Police-constable Parker met the prisoners in Cheapside, with the linen, and as they could not satisfactorily account for the possession of it, took them into custody, subsequently ascertaining that the linen had been stolen from the premises of the prosecutor, which had been entered. Detective- sergeant Dutton said robberies ot a similar description were being committed every night by a gang of thieves, who obtained entrance into brewhouses and helped themselves to whatever goods they found there. Both prisoners pleaded not guilty. Smith was sentenced to three months' imprisonment, Checkley to fourteen days' imprisonment, and at the expiration of that time five years' confinement in a reformatory school.
6 June 1866 Absconded last night - went up the dormitory chimney and down the roof of the schoolroom
13 June 1866 Caught by the police and sent to prison for six weeks for assaulting with a poker the constable who captured him
25 July 1866 Brought back from the Borough Prison in a very defiant spirit
17 October 1866 Attempted to abscond from the dormitory window in the night. Had to be taken into the cell and punished before he would be quiet. He tried to get a brick loose to break the window with. Got me up three times in the night.
28 May 1868 Emigrated to Canada
October 1870 Heard of doing well
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