| No. in Admissions Register: | 567 |
| Age: | 10 |
| Whence received: | Stafford |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Light brown |
| Eyes colour: | Grey |
| Visage: | - |
| Particular marks: | - |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Date of admission and term: | 1 December 1876 3 years |
| Late residence: | Dudley Wood, Staffordshire |
| Parish he belongs to: | Rowley Regis |
| Customary work and mode of life: | None |
| Whether illegitimate: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Not at all |
| Writes: | Not at all |
| Offence: | Stealing money |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | - |
| Date of sentence, by who and court: | 1 November 1876, Old Hill Petty Sessions, N Hingley and W Bassano |
| Where imprisoned: | Stafford County Prison |
| Sentence: | 1 month prison (hard labour), 3 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | One |
| Length: | Ten strokes |
| For what: | Stealing boots |
| Father's name: | Joseph Kendrick |
| Occupation: | Chain maker |
| Mother's name: | Jane Kendrick |
| Occupation: | - |
| Parents dead? | Not |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Good |
| Character of parents | Health good but character indifferent |
| Parents' wages: | About £1 per week |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | 1s 6d per week |
| Parents address: | Dudley Wood, Cradley Heath |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | - |
| Person making this return: | - |
4 November 1876 There is a report of the crime in the Dudley Herald Saturday 4 November 1867 p.3 col.2: A YOUNG THIEF. -At the Polios Court, Wednesday, before N. Hingley and W. Bassano, Esqrs., a boy named John Kendrick (10). was brought up on the charge of stealing £2 18s. from a shop till. The prosecutor was James Mason, pork butcher, of Five Ways, Cradley Heath. On the morning of Thursday last he left about £4 in his shop till daring an absence of about ten minutes. When he returned the till was on the floor of the shop, and £2 10s. was gone. Suspecting the prisoner, he went to his home and saw him, but the boy tried to lay the theft upon some other boys, who were innocent. He afterwards, however, became frightened, and took the prosecutor to a place where £1 7s. 6d. was hid in an old basket among the rubbish in the warehouse. On being taken into custody he said he spent some of the money at Quarry Bank, and was also robbed of part it by a boy. In May last he was whipped by order of the Bench for stealing.-The magistrates now sentenced him to a month's imprisonment and three years in a reformatory.
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