| No. in Admissions Register: | 554 |
| Age: | 12 |
| 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: | 16 August 1876 5 years |
| Late residence: | West Bromwich |
| Parish he belongs to: | West Bromwich |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Errand boy |
| Whether illegitimate: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | Imperfectly |
| Offence: | Stealing money |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | - |
| Date of sentence, by who and court: | 15 July 1876, West Bromwich Petty Sessions, J A Kenrick and H Williams |
| Where imprisoned: | Stafford |
| Sentence: | 1 month prison (hard labour), 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | None |
| Length: | - |
| For what: | - |
| Father's name: | William Dabbs |
| Occupation: | Miner |
| Mother's name: | Selina Dabbs |
| Occupation: | - |
| Parents dead? | - |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Good |
| Character of parents | Good |
| Parents' wages: | Good |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | Able and willing to contribute |
| Parents address: | Healey's Buildings, Cotterill Street, West Bromwich |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | - |
| Person making this return: | - |
28 July 1876 There is a short report of the crime in the Maryport Advertiser Friday 28 July 1876 p.5 col.2: SACRILEGE BY A BOY.-At the West Bromwich Police-court, before Major Williams, Mr. J. A. Kenrick, and Mr. George Heaton, a boy named John Dabbs, 12 years of age, son of William Dabbs, miner, was charged with stealing 3s. 6d. in coppers from the collection boxes at St. Mary Magdalen's Church, Lyndon, West Bromwich, on Sunday evening. From the evidence given it appeared that on the evening named the father of prisoner was told that his son had a quantity of coppers, in consequence of which he asked him how he became possessed of them. The boy replied that he had borrowed the money, but afterwards, on being further questioned; he began to cry, and said that he had stolen it from the collection boxes of the church. The prisoner pleaded guilty. The Bench sentenced the boy to one month's imprisonment with hard labour, and afterwards to be kept in the Reformatory for five years; the father of the boy being ordered to pay 4s. per week for his maintenance during such detention.
1881 On licence to his father
23 June 1881 Dabbs' father writes this morning to say that he does not know of his son's whereabouts
15 August 1881 Dabbs' sentence expires this day
14 February 1882 Writes to the shoemaker and informs him he is a private in the 1st Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment, stationed at Horfield Barracks, Bristol
23 December 1882 Dabbs visits Institution
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