| No. in Admissions Register: | 431 |
| Age: | 14 |
| Whence received: | Birmingham Gaol |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Brown |
| Eyes colour: | Grey |
| Visage: | - |
| Particular marks: | Anchor on right arm; scar on cheek |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Date of admission and term: | 2 August 1870 5 years |
| Late residence: | Opposite the Seven Stars, Lawley Street, Birmingham |
| Parish he belongs to: | Birmingham |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Coffin furniture maker |
| Whether illegitimate: | No |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | - |
| Offence: | Stealing a shirt |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | - |
| Date of sentence, by who and court: | 3 June 1870, Moor Street Birmingham, T C S Kynnersley |
| Where imprisoned: | Winson Green |
| Sentence: | 2 months prison (hard labour), 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | One |
| Length: | 3 months |
| For what: | Stealing a pair of hams |
| Father's name: | David Wall |
| Occupation: | Pearl button maker |
| Mother's name: | Mary Wall |
| Occupation: | Coffin furniture maker |
| Parents dead? | Father has run away |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Good |
| Character of parents | Good |
| Parents' wages: | 8s per week |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | Too poor to pay |
| Parents address: | opposite Seven Stars, Lawley Street, Birmingham |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | G Glossop |
| Person making this return: | - |
24 January 1863 His father had a brush with the law, as reported in the Birmingham Journal Saturday 24 January 1863 p.6 col.6: ROBBERY FROM EMPLOYERS.-A young man of respectable appearance, named William Thompson, a clerk, residing in Belgrave Street was charged with having stolen two ingots of copper, the property of his employers, Messrs. Pemberton and Sons, brassfounders, Livery street, and a man named David Wall, a pearl button maker, living in Farm Street was charged with having received the same, knowing them to have been stolen. Mr. Walter, solicitor to the Birmingham Prosecution Society, appeared to support the case, and Mr. John Powell appeared for Wall The evidence went to show that in consequence of a quantity of copper having been stolen from the premises of the prosecutors, information of the circumstance was immediately given to the police. On Wednesday morning Detective-sergeants Clark and Robinson were watching the place when Clark saw Thompson go to the stack of metal, take from it two ingots of copper, put them into his pockets, and go away. They followed, but lost him. The next day. however, Thompson was apprehended, and he implicated Wall, who was subsequently taken into custody. The Magistrates did not consider there was sufficient evidence to justify the conviction of Wall, and therefore discharged him. Thompson was, however, committed to the House Correction with hard labour for six months.
9 November 1873 Absconded
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