| No. in Admissions Register: | 409 |
| Age: | 14 |
| Whence received: | Stafford Prison |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Brown |
| Eyes colour: | Grey |
| Visage: | - |
| Particular marks: | - |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Date of admission and term: | 6 August 1869 3 years |
| Late residence: | Burton on Trent |
| Parish he belongs to: | Burton on Trent |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Tailor – apprenticed from workhouse |
| Whether illegitimate: | Not |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | Imperfectly |
| Offence: | Stealing currants |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | - |
| Date of sentence, by who and court: | 6 July 1869, Burton on Trent Petty Sessions, before C de Lyon and S Tomlinson Esqs |
| Where imprisoned: | Stafford |
| Sentence: | 1 month prison (hard labour), 5 years at Saltley [note, this differs from the 3 years written above] |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | 1 |
| Length: | 21 days |
| For what: | Similar offence |
| Father's name: | - |
| Occupation: | - |
| Mother's name: | - |
| Occupation: | - |
| Parents dead? | Both |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | - |
| Character of parents | - |
| Parents' wages: | - |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | - |
| Parents address: | - |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | - |
| Person making this return: | - |
8 July 1869 There is a report of the offence in the Burton Chronicle, Thursday 8 July 1869 p.4 col.5: AN INCORRIGIBLE THIEF.-Thomas Wilders, a youth apprenticed by the Guardians to a tailor in this town, was brought up in custody and charged with stealing half-a-pound of red currants from the garden of Mr. Thomas Tebbetts Blaxley, White Hart Hotel. The evidence went to show that on Sunday afternoon last Mr. Blaxley found prisoner against his garden eating something: he charged him with stealing currants, but the young thief denied it, whereupon Mr. Blaxley put his hands into the lad's pockets and found the currants. Prisoner declined to give his name, and he was handed over to the police. There was a previous conviction recorded against the prisoner for stealing a cake from Mr. Whittingham's shop in Station Street; and to-day the Magistrates sentenced him to one month imprisonment and three years confinement in a Reformatory.
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