| No. in Admissions Register: | 466 |
| Age: | 10 |
| Whence received: | Stafford Gaol |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Brown |
| Eyes colour: | Brown |
| Visage: | - |
| Particular marks: | - |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Date of admission and term: | 29 February 1872 5 years |
| Late residence: | Old Hill |
| Parish he belongs to: | Rowley Regis |
| Customary work and mode of life: | None |
| Whether illegitimate: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Not at all |
| Writes: | Not at all |
| Offence: | Stealing £1 13s 6d |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Bad company |
| Date of sentence, by who and court: | 31 January 1872, Old Hill Petty Sessions, E Moore and N Hingley |
| Where imprisoned: | Stafford |
| Sentence: | 1 month prison (hard labour), 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | None |
| Length: | - |
| For what: | - |
| Father’s name: | Charles Smith |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Mother's name: | - |
| Occupation: | - |
| Parents dead? | Neither |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents’ treatment of child: | Good |
| Character of parents | Honest, sober, and good health |
| Parents’ wages: | £1 per week |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | 1s 6d per week |
| Parents address: | Gosty Hill, Old Hill, Halesowen |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | W Mill, Brierley Hill |
| Person making this return: | W Hayes, Halesowen |
3 February 1872 There is a report of the crime in the County Advertiser and Herald for Staffordshire and Worcestershire Saturday 3 February 1872 p.3 col.5: A YOUNG THIEF. - George Smith, a ragged lad, about 12 years of age, was brought up on a charge of stealing £1 13s 6d, the moneys of the Great Western Railway Company. John Hodgetts, the station master at Old Hill said that on the evening of the 26th inst., he locked up his office, and on returning in about half-an-hour, he detected the prisoner making his exit from the place through the slide window. He took prisoner into the office, and he then produced £1 13s 6d, which he admitted having stolen from the money drawer, and he also said that he gained admittance to the place by pushing back the slide of the window. The prisoner was sentenced to one month's imprisonment, and afterwards to five years in a Reformatory.
19 September 1876 Licensed to work for King and Co, Netherend Colliery, near Stourbridge
15 October 1876 There is a letter from the boy: Old Hill, near Dudley, Oct. 15th 1876. Dear Sir, it is with love that I write this letter to you, hoping that it will find you quite well, as it leaves us all at present. I am very glad to tell you that I am going on very well. I thank you very much for allowing me to come home. I am very glad that I went to that School, for I am a scholar now. I send my kind love to you and the mistress. Please to send me a pass for the 19th. I shall come over to see you next month. I remain your obedient servant, G H Smith. Address: Mr Charles Smith, Slacky Lock Row, Old Hill, near Dudley.
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