| No. in Admissions Register: | 392 |
| Date of admission: | 23 December 1868 |
| Whence received: | Stafford Gaol |
| By whom brought: | - |
| On what terms: | - |
| Friends interested in him: | - |
| Description: | |
| Height: | - |
| Figure: | - |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Light brown |
| Eyes colour: | Grey |
| Perfect vision? | - |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Sound intellect? | Yes |
| Use of all limbs? | Yes |
| Had cow or small pox? | Neither |
| Particular marks: | - |
| Cutaneous disorder? | No |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | No |
| Subject to fits? | No |
| Age last birthday: | 11 |
| Illegitimate? | - |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | - |
| Has resided: | Leek |
| Parish he belongs to: | Leek |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Hawking brushes |
| Schools attended: | - |
| By whom and where employed: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | None |
| Cyphers: | - |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | Stealing £15 10s from a dwelling |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | The loss of his parents |
| Date of sentence: | 9 December 1868 |
| Where convicted: | Leek |
| Who prosecuted: | - |
| Where imprisoned: | - |
| Sentence: | 14 days prison (hard labour), 4 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals and convictions: | None |
| Father's name: | - |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | - |
| Mother's name: | - |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | - |
| Father's character: | - |
| Mother's character: | - |
| Parents dead? | Both |
| 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: | - |
12 December 1868 There is a report of the crime in the Staffordshire Advertiser Saturday 12 December 1868 p.5 col.4: A YOUTHFUL OFFENDER. -David Ball, of Leek, aged eleven years, was brought up on remand charged with stealing £l5 10s. from the dwelling-house of Henry Featherstone. at Alstonefield. on the 2nd inst. The boy has no parents living, and his step-mother state! that he had repeatedly run away. About three weeks had elapsed since he last left home, and he was heard at Alstonefleld being in the employ of a chimney-sweep named William Johnson. His master went to Mr. Featherstone's home for the purpose of sweeping the chimney early on the morning of the 2nd inst., and the boy picked up the bag containing the money which was in the room and which Mrs. Featherstone thought she had taken upstairs with her the previous night. The boy was subsequently apprehended and confessed he had taken the money, which was all found upon him. The magistrates ordered him to be imprisoned for 14 days, and at the end of that time to be sent to a reformatory for four years.
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