| No. in Admissions Register: | 401 |
| Age: | 14 |
| Whence received: | Birmingham Borough Prison |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Dark brown |
| Eyes colour: | Brown |
| Visage: | - |
| Particular marks: | Scars and mole on body |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Date of admission and term: | 31 March 1869 5 years |
| Late residence: | 68 Barford Street, Birmingham |
| Parish he belongs to: | Wolverhampton |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Caster |
| Whether illegitimate: | No |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Not at all |
| Writes: | Not at all |
| Offence: | Stealing 2 pigeons |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Bad company |
| Date of sentence, by who and court: | 18 March 1869, T C S Kynnersley, Birmingham Police Court |
| Where imprisoned: | Borough Gaol |
| Sentence: | 14 days prison (hard labour), 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | 1 |
| Length: | 14 days |
| For what: | Stealing lead |
| Father's name: | William Butlin |
| Occupation: | Wheelwright |
| Mother's name: | Mary Butlin |
| Occupation: | No trade |
| Parents dead? | No |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | - |
| Character of parents | Good |
| Parents' wages: | 26s per week |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | 1s 6d |
| Parents address: | 68 Back Barford Street |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | G Glossop |
| Person making this return: | T C S K [Kynnersley] |
19 March 1869 There is a report of the crime in the Birmingham Daily Post Friday 19 March 1869 p.4 col.3: THEFT OF PIGEONS. - John Butlin (14), labourer, Barford Street, was charged with breaking open a pen, and stealing two pigeons, the property of Benjamin Tichgen, bellowsmaker, 72, Barford Street. During Tuesday night the pigeons were stolen from a pen in prosecutor's yard, and on Wednesday morning the prisoner sold the pigeons in the Market Hall. He was sentenced to 14 days' imprisonment and afterwards to 5 years in a reformatory. On hearing the sentence the prisoner's mother exclaimed, " Oh, thank you, sir." "But," said Mr Kynnersley, "your husband will be summoned here, and ordered to pay for his son." "Summoned" replied the woman, "What for? He is an honest, upright man." "He will have to come in order that we may lix what he must pay" said Mr. Kynnersley. Upon hearing this the woman's face lost the joyful look it had assumed on hearing the sentence, and she went away muttering that they could pay nothing.
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