| No. in Admissions Register: | 657 |
| Age: | 13 |
| Whence received: | H M Prison Birmingham |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Brown |
| Eyes colour: | Brown |
| Visage: | Oval |
| Particular marks: | Mole on right eye |
| State of health: | - |
| Able-bodied? | - |
| Date of admission: | 11 December 1880 |
| Late residence: | back of 17 Nova Scotia Street, Birmingham |
| Parish he belongs to: | Birmingham |
| Customary work and mode of life: | None |
| Whether illegitimate: | No |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | 5th Standard |
| Writes: | 5th Standard |
| Offence: | Stealing the sum of 40s |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | - |
| Date of sentence, by whom and court: | 29 November 1880; T C S Kynnersley; Birmingham Police Court |
| Where imprisoned: | Birmingham Prison |
| Sentence: | 14 days in prison, 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | 1 |
| Length: | 9 strokes with a birch rod |
| For what: | Stealing 40s |
| Father's name: | Robert Walker |
| Occupation: | Pensioner |
| Mother's name: | Amanda Walker |
| Occupation: | - |
| Parents dead? | No |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Not known |
| Character of parents | - |
| Parents' wages: | - |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | - |
| Parents address: | back of 17 Nova Scotia Street, Birmingham |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | - |
| Person making this return: | - |
30 November 1880 There is a report of the crime in the Birmingham Daily Post Tuesday 30 November 1880 p.6 col. 1: THEFT IN THE ARCADE.- Thomas Rowley (16), errand- boy, living at tho back of Howe Street, and Charles Walker (12), back of Nova Scotia Street, were charged with breaking into the offices of Mr. James Sunderland, photographer, Arcade, arid stealing £2. 6s, - On Saturday morning the prisoners obtained the keys of Mr., Sunderland's premises, entered the offices, and breakirig open the desk, took the money out. Rowley, it appeared, had been in prosecutor's employ, and had only recently been discharged. - The prisoner \\'alier was sentenced to a fortnight's imprisonment, and was ordered afterwards to be kept for five years in a reformatory school; and RowIey was sent to gaol for six weeks.
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