| No. in Admissions Register: | 524 |
| Age: | 11 |
| Whence received: | Walsall |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | Pale |
| Hair colour: | Brown |
| Eyes colour: | Grey |
| Visage: | - |
| Particular marks: | - |
| State of health: | Eaten with vermin |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Date of admission and term: | 9 December 1874 5 years |
| Late residence: | 21 Regent Street, Walsall |
| Parish he belongs to: | Walsall |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Hawking pigs puddings |
| Whether illegitimate: | Not |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Not at all |
| Writes: | Not at all |
| Offence: | Vagrancy |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Neglect |
| Date of sentence, by who and court: | 30 November 1874, Walsall Police Court, T Chickley |
| Where imprisoned: | Walsall |
| Sentence: | 10 days prison, 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | None |
| Length: | - |
| For what: | - |
| Father's name: | Dead |
| Occupation: | - |
| Mother's name: | Ann Robinson |
| Occupation: | - |
| Parents dead? | - |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Neglected |
| Character of parents | - |
| Parents' wages: | Not known |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | 1s per week |
| Parents address: | 21 Rycroft Street, Walsall |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | J W Cater, Walsall |
| Person making this return: | - |
28 November 1874 There is a report of the hearing in the Walsall Observer and South Staffordshire Chronicle Saturday 28 November 1874 p.3 col.4: VAGRANCY. - The three boys John Robinson, Joseph Robinson, and Frederick Westman. were brought up, on remand. for vagrancy, by sleeping in a workshop belonging to Mr. Russell, in Freer-street. -The mothers of the boys now attended. and both stated that the lads were bad lads and would not stay at their work. Mrs. Wetsman also stated that she had told him last Tuesday not to return unless he get a place.-The Mayor remarked that it was one of the most shocking things he ever heard of, and Mr. Brewer said that if she had been a parent to the lad she would have gone with him and taken care of him, instead of turning him out all night at such an important period of his life.-The Mayor said the boys must be remanded until Friday, with a view to getting them into a reformatory.
5 December 1874 There is a report of the sentencing in the Walsall Observer and South Staffordshire Chronicle Saturday 5 December 1874 p.4 col.1: VAGRANCY BY BOYS.-The three boys, John Robinson, Joseph Robinson, and Patrick Westman, were again brought up, on remand from Friday.- Mr. Chief-Superintendent Cater reported that he had answers from two Protestant Reformatory schools and from one Catholic school that all three boys could be admitted to those institutions.- Westman was ordered to be handed over to a person in Birmingham. who agreed to look after him and find him work. The other two boys were ordered to be imprisoned for ten days and then to go to the Reformatories for five years, and that the parents must pay 1s. a week for each.
18 July 1887 Fallon [boy 602] reports that John Robinson is doing well, working for Walker Bros, galvanizers, Pleck Road, Walsall
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