| No. in Admissions Register: | 393 |
| Date of admission: | 3 February 1869 |
| Whence received: | Stafford Gaol |
| By whom brought: | - |
| On what terms: | - |
| Friends interested in him: | - |
| Description: | |
| Height: | - |
| Figure: | - |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | 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: | None |
| Cutaneous disorder? | No |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | No |
| Subject to fits? | No |
| Age last birthday: | 12 |
| Illegitimate? | - |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | - |
| Has resided: | Blythe Bridge |
| Parish he belongs to: | Longton |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Pottery |
| Schools attended: | None |
| By whom and where employed: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Not at all |
| Writes: | Not at all |
| Cyphers: | - |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | Stealing oranges etc |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Bad company |
| Date of sentence: | 4 January 1869 |
| Where convicted: | Longton Petty Sessions |
| Who prosecuted: | - |
| Where imprisoned: | - |
| Sentence: | 1 month prison (hard labour), 4 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals and convictions: | Disorderly (7 days) |
| Father's name: | James Perkins |
| Occupation: | Miner |
| Residence: | Blythe Bridge, Stone, Staffordshire |
| Mother's name: | - |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | - |
| Father's character: | Honest, drunken, and idle |
| Mother's character: | - |
| Parents dead? | Not |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Not very good |
| Character of parents | Health bad |
| Parents' wages: | Not known – man won't work if he can avoid it, but might earn 25s per week |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | Ought to pay 2s or 3s per week |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | G Garnham, Longton |
| Relatives to communicate with: | - |
| Person making this return: | - |
| Estimate of character on admission: | - |
| Character on discharge: | - |
| When and how left the Reformatory: | - |
9 January 1869 There is a report of the offence in the Staffordshire Sentinel and Commercial and General Advertiser Saturday 9 January 1869 p.6 col.1: A YOUNG THIEF.- Alfred Perkins, aged twelve, was brought up on the charge of stealing some apples, oranges and parsnips, the property of Thomas Daniels. It seems that the prosecutor's wife has a stall in Longton market. On Saturday night she was about to leave after the market business, when the prisoner was detected taking the articles named. The youngster must have secreted himself under the stall with a view to a committal of the theft. He was given into custody and inquiries made about him, the result being that it was ascertained he came from Blythe Bridge. The magistrates committed the prisoner to gaol for a month, and directed that after that term he should sent to a reformatory for four years.
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