| No. in Admissions Register: | 484 |
| Age: | 10 |
| Whence received: | Stafford County 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: | 19 April 1873 5 years |
| Late residence: | Enville |
| Parish he belongs to: | Bobbington |
| Customary work and mode of life: | None |
| Whether illegitimate: | Yes |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | Imperfectly |
| Offence: | Stealing a watch |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Drunkenness of father |
| Date of sentence, by who and court: | 31 March 1873, Brierley Hill Petty Sessions, H O Firestone and H Smith |
| Where imprisoned: | Stafford |
| Sentence: | 21 days prison (hard labour), 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | One |
| Length: | 48 hours and birched |
| For what: | Stealing a concertina |
| Father's name: | - |
| Occupation: | - |
| Mother's name: | Sarah Elizabeth Tarlington |
| Occupation: | Single woman |
| Parents dead? | - |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Bad |
| Character of parents | Bad |
| Parents' wages: | - |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | None |
| Parents address: | Six Ashes, Bobbington, Bridgnorth |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | H McCrea, Tettenhall, Wolverhampton |
| Person making this return: | - |
5 April 1873 There is a report of the theft in the County Advertiser and Herald for Staffordshire and Worcestershire Saturday 5 April 1873 p.8 col.3: STEALING A WATCH. -- Thomas Alfred Tarlington (9) was charged with stealing a watch, value 15s., the property of John Bason, Six Ashes. Henry Edward Farley said he saw the prisoner go into the house of Thomas Patchett, on Saturday last. Ann Meredith said she left the prisoner in Patchett's garden, about eleven o'clock. She did not see him go into the house She missed the watch produced at one o'clock. John Bason said the watch produced belonged to him. He left it in Mrs. Meredith's care. Police Constable Ledbury said he found the watch in the prisoner's mother's garden, at Six Ashes. On charging the prisoner be admitted having takes the watch out of the house. The prisoner was committed to the House of Correction for three weeks, with hard labour, and at the expiration of that term ordered to be sent to a reformatory school for five years.
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