| No. in Admissions Register: | 430 |
| Age: | 13 |
| Whence received: | Stafford |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Brown |
| Eyes colour: | Grey |
| Visage: | - |
| Particular marks: | - |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Date of admission and term: | 23 July 1870 5 years |
| Late residence: | Smethwick |
| Parish he belongs to: | Smethwick |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Idling about |
| Whether illegitimate: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | Imperfectly |
| Offence: | Stealing butter, etc |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Neglect of parents |
| Date of sentence, by who and court: | 2 July 1870, West Bromwich Petty Sessions, T Kenwick and T Davis Esqs |
| Where imprisoned: | Stafford |
| Sentence: | 21 days prison (hard labour), 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | None |
| Length: | - |
| For what: | - |
| Father's name: | James Peate |
| Occupation: | Milkman |
| Mother's name: | Rosannah Peate (stepmother) |
| Occupation: | - |
| Parents dead? | Own mother |
| Survivor married again? | Yes |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Not good |
| Character of parents | Honest and sober, health not good |
| Parents' wages: | About 20s per week |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | Father is willing to pay 2s per week |
| Parents address: | Sixways, Smethwick |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | T Woollaston, West Bromwich |
| Person making this return: | J P Hibbert |
4 July 1870 There was a report of the crime in the Birmingham Daily Gazette Monday 7 July 1870 p.8 col.2: A YOUNG RASCAL. -At the West Bromwich Police Court, on Saturday, before Mr. Timothy Kenrick and Mr. Davis, a lad named Joseph Peat [surname spelled thus], aged 13 years, of the Windmills, Smethwick, was charged with breaking into the house of Thomas Ellis, shopkeeper, Six Ways, the same place. Police-constable Leonard said that he and Police-constable Brunt watched the prisoner walk near the prosecutor's house on Sunday morning, about half-past four, and they afterwards saw him take a pane out of the window, and get out a loaf and some butter. The boy admitted his guilt, and his father said he was utterly unable to manage him. The magistrates ordered the prisoner to be committed to gaol for 21 days, and at the expiration of that time to be sent to a reformatory for five years. The father was ordered to contribute 2s. a week towards the lad's maintenance during the time he was in the reformatory.
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