| No. in Admissions Register: | 351 |
| Date of admission: | 10 April 1867 |
| Whence received: | Warwick Gaol |
| By whom brought: | - |
| On what terms: | - |
| Friends interested in him: | - |
| Description: | |
| Height: | - |
| Figure: | - |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Brown |
| Eyes colour: | Blue |
| Perfect vision? | Yes |
| State of health: | - |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Sound intellect? | - |
| Use of all limbs? | Yes |
| Had cow or small pox? | Cowpox |
| Particular marks: | Two brown spots on left forearm. Large mouth |
| Cutaneous disorder? | Not |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | No |
| Subject to fits? | No |
| Age last birthday: | 14 |
| Illegitimate? | - |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | - |
| Has resided: | Tamworth |
| Parish he belongs to: | - |
| 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 rabbits |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Not known |
| Date of sentence: | 21 March 1867 |
| Where convicted: | Tamworth Petty Sessions |
| Who prosecuted: | - |
| Where imprisoned: | Warwick |
| Sentence: | 21 days prison (hard labour), 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals and convictions: | Not known |
| Father’s name: | Benjamin Kendall |
| Occupation: | Bricklayer’s labourer |
| Residence: | 2 Paradise Row, Tamworth |
| Mother's name: | Bessie Kendall |
| Occupation: | Charwoman |
| Residence: | 2 Paradise Row, Tamworth |
| Father’s character: | - |
| Mother’s character: | - |
| Parents dead? | - |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents’ treatment of child: | - |
| Character of parents | - |
| Parents’ wages: | 15s per week by father |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | No order made |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | - |
| Relatives to communicate with: | - |
| Person making this return: | - |
| Estimate of character on admission: | - |
| Character on discharge: | - |
| When and how left the Reformatory: | - |
23 March 1867 There is a report of the crime, involving father and son, in the Leicester Chronicle Saturday 23 March 1867 p.7 col.2: RABBIT STEALING. - Benjamin Kendall and Henry Kendall (11), his son, were charged with stealing three tame rabbits, on the 2nd and 9th inst., the property of W. Genders. Henry Kendall pleaded guilty to the charge. - From the evidence of Elizabeth Genders and Mrs. Wood, it appeared the rabbits were kept in a hovel at the back of the prosecutor's house in Bolebridge Street. On the above date the rabbits were stolen, and thinking it probable the skins might be offered for sale at Mrs. Wood's, a general dealer, who lived in the same street, Mrs. Genders made a communication to Mrs. Wood, and on Monday last the boy brought the skin to Mrs. Wood for sale, which, from the description given her, she suspected belonged to one of the stolen rabbits, and before paying for it she took it into the prosecutor, who lived close by, and it was at once identified as the skin of one of their stolen rabbits. - F. W. J. Sergeant (a boy) deposed to buying a rabbit, now produced, from the younger prisoner, which was identified in court by Mrs. Genders. - P. C. Gilbride said he received the rabbit skin now produced from Mrs. Genders, and from information he received he went to the house of Ben. Kendall, who, in answer to his questions, said they had had three rabbits, one had died, one was sold to Sergeant, and the other, the old one, they killed on Sunday morning last. He said his son told him he had bought them from Gorton's, in Church-street, and had given 2d. each for the two young ones, and 2s. for the old one, which they had killed on the previous Sunday. - The Bench dismissed Benjamin Kendall, and committed Henry Kendall to the House of Correction for twenty-one days, with a view during that time of obtaining for him admission into a Reformatory.
19 October 1871 His father was summoned a few years after the boy's admission to Saltley for non-payment of maintenance, as reported in the Burton Chronicle Thursday 19 October 1871 p.2 col.4: Benjamin Kendall was charged with neglecting to pay towards the support of his son in the Saltley Reformatory. Superintendent said that an order had been made for 1s. per week. but the defendant had not paid anything since the 28th of June. He had taken these proceedings by order of the Inspector of Reformatories in England and Wales. The defendant was ordered to pay in a fortnight or go to prison for three weeks.
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