| No. in Admissions Register: | 341 |
| Date of admission: | 11 September 1866 |
| Whence received: | Stafford |
| By whom brought: | - |
| On what terms: | - |
| Friends interested in him: | - |
| Description: | |
| Height: | - |
| Figure: | - |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | 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? | Cowpox |
| Particular marks: | - |
| Cutaneous disorder? | No |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | Not apparent |
| Subject to fits? | Not |
| Age last birthday: | 14 |
| Illegitimate? | - |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | - |
| Has resided: | Newcastle, Staffordshire |
| Parish he belongs to: | Newcastle |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Nail and ring |
| Schools attended: | - |
| By whom and where employed: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | Imperfectly |
| Cyphers: | - |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | Stealing lead and glass |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Bad company |
| Date of sentence: | 11 June 1866 |
| Where convicted: | Newcastle |
| Who prosecuted: | - |
| Where imprisoned: | - |
| Sentence: | 3 months prison, 3 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals and convictions: | Stealing a vest (whipping) |
| Father's name: | Thomas Martindale |
| Occupation: | Nailer |
| Residence: | Market Street, Newcastle under Lyme |
| Mother's name: | - |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | - |
| Father's character: | Drunken |
| Mother's character: | - |
| Parents dead? | Mother |
| Survivor married again? | Not |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Good |
| Character of parents | - |
| Parents' wages: | 21s per week |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | 1s 6d per week |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | J Williams, Newcastle |
| Relatives to communicate with: | - |
| Person making this return: | - |
| Estimate of character on admission: | - |
| Character on discharge: | - |
| When and how left the Reformatory: | - |
16 June 1866 There is a short report of the crime in the Staffordshire Advertiser Saturday 16 June 1866 p.7 col.5: A REMARKABLE YOUNG THIEF.- Henry Martindale. aged 14, pleaded guilty to a charge of having stolen a quantity of lead. The value of the lead was stated to be only 3d., but in order to get it the thief had to take 40 squares of glass out of one window, and four out of another. He also took out a window frame at the house of Mr. J. Wilkes, near the Sutherland Arms Inn. The youth has been previously sent to prison. He was ordered to be again imprisoned three months, and sent to a reformatory for three years.
10 September 1869 Discharged
October 1870 Doing well at Newcastle
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