| No. in Admissions Register: | 535 |
| Age: | 15 |
| Whence received: | Stafford |
| 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 May 1875 2 years |
| Late residence: | Blynhill, Shifnal, Shropshire |
| Parish he belongs to: | Shrewsbury |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Farm work |
| Whether illegitimate: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Not at all |
| Writes: | Not at all |
| Offence: | Stealing a watch |
| Circumstances which may have led to it | Not controlled at home |
| Date of sentence, by who and court: | 19 April 1875, Cannock Petty Sessions, R H Briscoe and J H Harrison |
| Where imprisoned: | Stafford |
| Sentence: | 1 month prison (hard labour), 2 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | None |
| Length: | - |
| For what: | - |
| Father's name: | Richard Davis |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Mother's name: | Margaret Davis (stepmother) |
| Occupation: | - |
| Parents dead? | Own mother |
| Survivor married again? | Yes |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Bad |
| Character of parents | Honest, sober, and health good [father]; stepmother drunken |
| Parents' wages: | 16s per week |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | 1s per week |
| Parents address: | Shifnal, Shropshire |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | - |
| Person making this return: | - |
24 April 1875 There is a report of the crime in the Midland Examiner and Times Saturday 24 April 1875 p6 col.6: STEALING A WATCH.- Richard Davies, 13, was charged with stealing a watch, the property of William Carter, at Blynhill. The prosecutor is a waggoner in the employ of Mr Willcox, of the High Hill, Blynhill, where, for two months previous to the 16th inst., the prisoner was also employed. On the morning of that day the prosecutor's watch was stolen from his bedroom, and about the same time the prisoner absconded, but was afterwards apprehended at Shifnal by Police-constable [surname illegible] , and, on being questioned about the watch, he admitted that he had taken it and sold it to a watchmaker named [surname illegible] of Madeley. in Shropshire. The shop [should be 'watch'] was found at [surname illegible]'s shop. - The prisoner was sent to gaol; for a month, and a stipulation was made by the Bench that he should be afterwards sent to a reformatory for two years.
19 May 1877 Should have returned to parents 10 Bell Passage, Castle Foregate, Shrewsbury [3 Chapel Lane, Frankwell, Shrewsbury crossed out], June 2nd, but as they did not send for him his needs(?), Fullerton, High Street, Shifnal sent for him and he went there today.
28 May 1877 There is a letter attached to the Admissions Register from the father to his son (spelling and wording as given, punctuation added to aid clarity): Shrewsbury, May 28 1877, My dear son, I write to you in hopes to find you in good health as this leves me in at present, thanks be to God for it. My dear son, I have wrote to you before and I coudn't find you, the letters as came back to me. My dear son, we should be very happy to hear frome you and if you are coming home or if your time is up, for we have been expecting you this two or three weeks back.
This is to the head of the institution: Dear sir, please to let me know if my son as left the please of not. Please to let me know as soon as possible for I am very uneasy about him. I should be very much obliged to you if you will kindly let me all about him as soon as pobl [possible]. I haven't no more to say at present, but I remain your truly, Father and Frinds, Richard Davis. Please to write to: Mr Richard Davis, 11 Bell Passage, Castle Foregate, Shrewsbury. Write haist [haste?]
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