| No. in Admissions Register: | 376 |
| Date of admission: | 31 January 1868 |
| Whence received: | Warwick |
| By whom brought: | - |
| On what terms: | - |
| Friends interested in him: | - |
| Description: | |
| Height: | - |
| Figure: | Slender |
| Complexion: | Pale |
| Hair colour: | Brown |
| Eyes colour: | Dark brown |
| Perfect vision? | Yes |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | - |
| Sound intellect? | - |
| Use of all limbs? | Yes |
| Had cow or small pox? | Cowpox |
| Particular marks: | Scar on left shoulder |
| Cutaneous disorder? | No |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | No |
| Subject to fits? | No |
| Age last birthday: | 13 |
| Illegitimate? | - |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | - |
| Has resided: | - |
| Parish he belongs to: | - |
| Customary work and mode of life: | - |
| Schools attended: | None |
| By whom and where employed: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Not at all |
| Writes: | Not at all |
| Cyphers: | - |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | Stealing 1 lb of figs and 3d |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | - |
| Date of sentence: | 1 January 1868 |
| Where convicted: | Aston before G Lloyd and C Ratcliff |
| Who prosecuted: | - |
| Where imprisoned: | - |
| Sentence: | 1 month prison (hard labour), 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals and convictions: | Not known |
| Father's name: | James Cotton |
| Occupation: | Gold engraver |
| Residence: | Perrings Buildings, Victoria Road, Aston, Birmingham |
| Mother's name: | Dead |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | - |
| Father's character: | Good |
| 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: | - |
2 January 1868 There is a report of the crime in the Birmingham Daily Gazette Thursday 2 January 1868 p.5 col.4: A NEGLECTED YOUTH -At the Aston Petty Sessions. yesterday, before Messrs. C. Ratcliff, T. Lloyd, and A. S. Evans, a lad named Charles Cotton, apparently about ten years of age, was charged with stealing a pound of figs and 7s., belonging to James Iles, a baker, in the Victoria Road. Aston, on the 30tb ult. The lad, although so young, has committed many petty thefts, and his home training appears to have been sadly neglected. He pleaded guilty to stealing 3d. and six figs, but the theft, as charged, was proved against him. and he was sentenced to a month's imprisonment, and to afterwards sent to a reformatory for five years. The magistrates made an order upon the lad's father, who is an engraver and jeweller, to pay 4s. a week towards his support during that period.
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