| No. in Admissions Register: | 446 |
| Age: | 14 |
| Whence received: | Birmingham Borough Prison |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | Pale |
| Hair colour: | Dark brown |
| Eyes colour: | Hazel |
| Visage: | - |
| Particular marks: | Scar on forehead |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Date of admission and term: | 25 May 1871 5 years |
| Late residence: | 8 court 4 house Henrietta Street, Birmingham |
| Parish he belongs to: | Birmingham |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Stamper |
| Whether illegitimate: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Not at all |
| Writes: | Not at all |
| Offence: | Stealing 3 lbs of beef |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | - |
| Date of sentence, by who and court: | 15 May 1871, Birmingham Police Court, T C S Kynnersley |
| Where imprisoned: | Birmingham Borough Prison |
| Sentence: | 14 days prison (hard labour), 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | Two |
| Length: | 1) 3 days; 2) 14 days |
| For what: | 1) Against bye-laws; 2) stealing 12 buns |
| Father's name: | Dead |
| Occupation: | - |
| Mother's name: | Dead |
| Occupation: | - |
| Parents dead? | - |
| 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 April 1871 A previous offence is reported in the Birmingham Mail Saturday 8 April 1871 p.2 col.3: STEALINO "HOT CROSS BUNS." Martin Marney (13), gunmakcr, 9 Court, Water Street, and Walter Mills (15), stamper, 8 Court, Henrietta Street, were charged with stealing a quantity of "hot cross buns" from a youth named John Thomas Wilcox, in Livery Street. On Good Friday the young prosecutor was walking in Livery Street, saluting the public ear with the cry of "Hot cross buns." Suddenly he found that about a dozen boys were paying him more attention than was agreeable, the prisoners going so far as to abstract a quantity of buns from his basket. The prisoners were sentenced to 14 days' imprisonment.
15 October 1873 Licensed to work for Mr H Wardm 205 Kirkgate, Wakefield
2 August 1874 Absconded from his employment
10 August 1874 Brought back from Manchester by the police
8 March 1875 Is doing well at his old place as above
9 October 1875 Absconded from his place again
26 October 1881 Mills calls in soldiers uniform. He is in the A Battery, 5th Brigade, Royal Artillery, Weedon, Northampton
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