| No. in Admissions Register: | 348 |
| Date of admission: | 21 January 1867 |
| 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: | Mark of burn on left arm |
| Cutaneous disorder? | Not |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | Not apparent |
| Subject to fits? | Not |
| Age last birthday: | 12 |
| Illegitimate? | - |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | - |
| Has resided: | Bilston |
| Parish he belongs to: | Bilston |
| Customary work and mode of life: | - |
| Schools attended: | - |
| By whom and where employed: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | Imperfectly |
| Cyphers: | - |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | Stealing tobacco from a shop |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Bad company and bad example of his father |
| Date of sentence: | 21 December 1866 |
| Where convicted: | Bilston |
| Who prosecuted: | - |
| Where imprisoned: | - |
| Sentence: | 1 month prison, 4 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals and convictions: | 1 conviction and 2 other trials for theft |
| Father's name: | William Upton |
| Occupation: | Cow keeper |
| Residence: | John Street, Bilston |
| Mother's name: | Sarah Upton |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | - |
| Father's character: | Once convicted of felony, several times for drunkenness, assault, etc |
| Mother's character: | - |
| Parents dead? | - |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Good |
| Character of parents | Health good |
| Parents' wages: | Uncertain |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | 1s 6d per week ordered by justices |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | Hugh McCrea, Bilston |
| Relatives to communicate with: | - |
| Person making this return: | J W Hale, Bilston |
| Estimate of character on admission: | - |
| Character on discharge: | - |
| When and how left the Reformatory: | - |
26 December 1866 There is a report of the crime in the Wolverhampton Chronicle and Staffordshire Advertiser Wednesday 26 December 1866 p.5 col.6: PRECOCIOUS THIEVES. -On Friday, at the Police Court, before A. Sparrow and W. Hatton, Esqrs,, four lads, named Thomas Oakley, Walter Wilkes, and William and Arthur Upton (brothers), were charged with theft. It appeared that on the previous Tuesday evening at about seven o'clock, prisoners between them contrived to remove the putty and take a pane of glass from the shop window of Mr. Thomas Winsper. a tobacconist, living in Gossard-street, Bilston; and having done this they stole a quantity of tobacco. The case having been clearly proved against them, William Upton was sentenced a month's imprisonment, and afterwards to be kept at a reformatory for three years; Arthur Upton, against whom there were five previous convictions, to a month's imprisonment, and four years at a reformatory; Thomas Oakley to fourteen days' imprisonment, and Walter Wilkes, who was the least guilty, was ordered to pay a fine of 2s. fid.
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