| No. in Admissions Register: | 354 |
| Date of admission: | 20 June 1867 |
| Whence received: | Birmingham |
| By whom brought: | - |
| On what terms: | - |
| Friends interested in him: | - |
| Description: | |
| Height: | - |
| Figure: | - |
| Complexion: | Fair |
| Hair colour: | Dark 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? | - |
| Particular marks: | Scar on belly and left thigh |
| Cutaneous disorder? | No |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | Not apparent |
| Subject to fits? | Not |
| Age last birthday: | 14 |
| Illegitimate? | - |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | - |
| Has resided: | 34 Hatchett Street, Birmingham |
| Parish he belongs to: | Birmingham |
| Customary work and mode of life: | File grinder |
| Schools attended: | St Stephen's |
| By whom and where employed: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | Imperfectly |
| Cyphers: | - |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | Stealing a watch |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | - |
| Date of sentence: | 31 May 1867 |
| Where convicted: | Moor Street |
| Who prosecuted: | - |
| Where imprisoned: | - |
| Sentence: | 21 days prison, 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals and convictions: | Stealing a table cloth (14 days); stealing a chemise (3 days and whipping) |
| Father's name: | Dead |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | - |
| Mother's name: | Mary Ann Kemp |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | 34 Hatchett Street, Birmingham |
| Father's character: | - |
| Mother's character: | - |
| Parents dead? | |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | - |
| Character of parents | - |
| Parents' wages: | - |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | - |
| 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: | - |
1 June 1867 There is a report of the crime in the Birmingham Journal Saturday 1 June 1867 p.2 col.4: STEALING A WATCH. John Kemp (14), living at Hatchett Street, file grinder, was charged with stealing a watch, the property of Thomas Brittain, 205, Summer Lane, shopkeeper. The watch was stolen from off a mantel on the prosecutor's premises. The prisoner was not detected in the act, but he was seen with other boys near to the house shortly before the robbery, and he afterwards offered the watch in pledge at the shop of Mr. Isaac Soloman. Prisoner, in reply to questions put to him by Mr. Soloman, said the watch belonged to his father. He was requested to fetch his father, and he presently returned with a woman, whom he said was his mother; but in the meantime the prosecutor had fortunately called at the shop to give information of the robbery, and he then identified the watch. The prisoner now said that the watch was given him to pawn by another boy. The police stated that the accused had been three times convicted of felony. The Stipendiary passed a sentence of 21 days' imprisonment, and five years' confinement in a reformatory.
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