| No. in Admissions Register: | 355 |
| Date of admission: | 24 June 1867 |
| Whence received: | Stafford |
| By whom brought: | - |
| On what terms: | - |
| Friends interested in him: | - |
| Description: | |
| Height: | - |
| Figure: | - |
| Complexion: | Fair |
| Hair colour: | Brown |
| Eyes colour: | Brown |
| 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: | Cuts on nose |
| Cutaneous disorder? | Not |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | Not apparent |
| Subject to fits? | Not |
| Age last birthday: | 11 |
| Illegitimate? | - |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | - |
| Has resided: | Hanley |
| Parish he belongs to: | Hanley |
| 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 a purse and 8d |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | - |
| Date of sentence: | 24 May 1867 |
| Where convicted: | Stoke on Trent |
| Who prosecuted: | - |
| Where imprisoned: | - |
| Sentence: | 1 month prison, 4 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals and convictions: | Stealing a watch |
| Father's name: | Beniah Rhodes |
| Occupation: | Bricklayer |
| Residence: | Bird Cage Walk, Hanley |
| Mother's name: | - |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | - |
| Father's character: | Honest and sober |
| Mother's character: | - |
| Parents dead? | Mother |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | - |
| Character of parents | Health not good |
| Parents' wages: | 30s per week |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | 2s per week |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | R J Baker, Hanley |
| Relatives to communicate with: | - |
| Person making this return: | - |
| Estimate of character on admission: | - |
| Character on discharge: | - |
| When and how left the Reformatory: | - |
9 June 1866 His previous crime is reported in the Staffordshire Advertiser Saturday 9 June 1866 p.7 col.6: JUVENILE Thief. Beniah Rhodes a lad ten years of age, was charged with stealing a watch the property of Joseph Bradley The prosecutor is a baker at Mr. Hopkinson's. Joiners-square, Hanley, and at two o'clock on Tuesday afternoon the watch was safe in the bakehouse and in half-an-hour afterwards it was gone. In the course of the afternoon the lad offered the watch in pledge at the shop of Mr Vessey, in Hanley, but. the assistant very properly detained it. and the young thief was shortly afterwards apprehended. The prisoner, who pleaded guilty, was sentenced to one day's imprisonment.
25 May 1867 There is a brief report of the crime in the Staffordshire Sentinel and Commercial and General Advertiser Saturday 25 May 1867 p.5 col.3: A boy named Beniah Rhodes was charged with stealing a purse containing 8d., the property of James Hinckley, Frederick Street, Hanley, on Wednesday last. The father of the prisoner appeared in court, and stated that his son was twelve years old, and had been before the Court previously. Mr. Davis ordered that the boy should be imprisoned for one month, and afterwards sent to a reformatory for four years.
13 July 1867 A few weeks later his father was summoned for non-payment of maintenance. This was reported, very briefly, in the Staffordshire Sentinel and Commercial and General Advertiser Saturday 13 July 1867 p.5 col.3: Beniah Rhodes, bricklayer, was ordered to pay 1s 6d per week towards the maintenance of his son, who was some time ago sent to the Saltley reformatory.
9 January 1869 The was a notification of the death of his father in the obituaries in the Staffordshire Advertiser Saturday 9 January 1869 p.5 col.7: On the 5th instant, in Bird Cage Walk, Hanley, Mr BENIAH RHODES, bricklayer, aged 70.
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