| No. in Admissions Register: | 382 |
| Date of admission: | 20 June 1868 |
| 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? | Both |
| Particular marks: | Cut top of forehead |
| Cutaneous disorder? | No |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | Not apparent |
| Subject to fits? | No |
| Age last birthday: | 15 |
| Illegitimate? | - |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | - |
| Has resided: | Wolverhampton |
| Parish he belongs to: | Wolverhampton |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Collier |
| Schools attended: | - |
| By whom and where employed: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | - |
| Cyphers: | - |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | Stealing a watch |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Bad company |
| Date of sentence: | 19 May 1868 |
| Where convicted: | - |
| Who prosecuted: | - |
| Where imprisoned: | - |
| Sentence: | 1 month prison, 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals and convictions: | One |
| Father's name: | William Scott |
| Occupation: | Plasterer |
| Residence: | Victoria Place, Penn Road, Wolverhampton |
| Mother's name: | Mary Scott |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | - |
| Father's character: | - |
| Mother's character: | - |
| Parents dead? | - |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Good |
| Character of parents | Honest sober and in good health |
| Parents' wages: | 25s to 27s |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | 1s 6d per week |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | H McCrea, Bilston |
| Relatives to communicate with: | - |
| Person making this return: | - |
| Estimate of character on admission: | - |
| Character on discharge: | - |
| When and how left the Reformatory: | - |
27 May 1868 There is a report of the crime in the Wolverhampton Chronicle and Staffordshire Advertiser Wednesday 27 May 1868 p.6 col.3: COMMITTAL TO A REFORMATORY.--James Scott, a young lad was charged with having stolen a German silver watch, value 15s, a pair of boots, a pair of trousers, and some bread and lard, from the house of John Smith, miner, living in High Street, Bilston. It appeared from the evidence that about five weeks ago the lad was employed by the prosecutor, and he also lodged at his house for a short time. On Monday, the 28th of April he left the house early in the morning, and took with him a watch belonging to the prosecutor. On the Wednesday following the house was broken into during the night, an entrance being obtained by placing a ladder against the back window, and opening it with a knife, and the other things named above were then stolen. The prosecutor met the prisoner a few days afterwards in the street, and after asking him some questions relating to the robbery, he handed him over to Police-constable Curtis. To this officer, as well as to the prosecutor, the lad made a statement incriminating a convicted burglar, well know to the police, named Store, and although he (the prisoner) showed Store how to get into the house, yet he himself laid down in the pigstye while the burglary was being committed. The prisoner pleaded guilty, and Mr Spooner sentenced him to one month's imprisonment, and to be afterwards sent for five years to a Reformatory.
18 July 1868 Absconded
10 October 1868 Brought back by his father
31 August 1869 Absconded
17 February 1870 Discharged, under a sentence of 7 years police surveillance
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