| No. in Admissions Register: | 527 |
| 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: | 14 January 1875 5 years |
| Late residence: | Burton on Trent |
| Parish he belongs to: | Burton on Trent |
| Customary work and mode of life: | None |
| Whether illegitimate: | Not |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | Not at all |
| Offence: | Stealing 2 knives |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Bad company |
| Date of sentence, by who and court: | 15 December 1874, Burton Petty Sessions, J H Griffiths and R Hardy |
| Where imprisoned: | Stafford |
| Sentence: | 1 month prison, 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | None |
| Length: | - |
| For what: | - |
| Father's name: | James Camp |
| Occupation: | Bricklayer |
| Mother's name: | - |
| Occupation: | - |
| Parents dead? | Mother |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Good |
| Character of parents | Good |
| Parents' wages: | 21s per week |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | 1s 6d per week |
| Parents address: | Horninglow Street, Burton |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | |
| Person making this return: | - |
17 December 1874 There is a report of the crime in the Burton Chronicle Thursday 17 December 1874 p.5 col.6: A YOUNG RASCAL.- Thomas Camp (10), of Horninglow Street, was charged with stealing a sovereign, on the 12th instant, the money of his father James Camp. The prisoner pleaded guilty. During the temporary absence of the prosecutor from his house on the day in question, the prisoner secured his keys, went upstairs, unlocked a box, and stole the sovereign. The prosecutor did not at first miss it, but on Saturday night, from something he heard, he went after his son whom he found in the market hall, and with the assistance of Police Constable Tack captured. Whilst taking him down High Street he confessed having stolen the sovereign and said he had spent it all. The prosecutor then gave him into custody, and inquiries which were made resulted in it being ascertained that the boy had bought two pistols and several knives, besides treating his companions and himself to toffy, cakes, &c. The prosecutor informed the Bench that this was the fourth time he had discovered that his son had robbed him since August last, and he asked for him to be sent to a reformatory. The Bench sent the prisoner to gaol for a month, and then ordered him to be sent to a reformatory for four years.
11 May 1881 Camp calls in the evening. Not doing any work. I gave him 6s
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