| No. in Admissions Register: | 667 |
| Age: | 15 |
| Whence received: | H M Prison Birmingham |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Light |
| Eyes colour: | Grey |
| Visage: | Oval |
| Particular marks: | Fair freckled |
| State of health: | See Doctor's certificate |
| Able-bodied? | |
| Date of admission: | 3 June 1881 - due here 31 May 1881 but detained in gaol to be cured of his itch |
| Late residence: | Bissell Street, Birmingham |
| Parish he belongs to: | Birmingham |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Tinplate worker |
| Whether illegitimate: | No |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Very badly |
| Writes: | Imperfectly |
| Offence: | Stealing a coat, waistcoat, and a pair of trousers |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Broke out of workhouse |
| Date of sentence, by whom and court: | 11 May 1881; T C S Kynnersley; Birmingham Police Court |
| Where imprisoned: | H M Prison Birmingham |
| Sentence: | 21 days hard labour in prison, 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | 1 |
| Length: | Remanded and discharged |
| For what: | Stealing and begging |
| Father's name: | James Davis |
| Occupation: | Coach builder |
| Mother's name: | Emily Davis |
| Occupation: | - |
| Parents dead? | Neither |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Good |
| Character of parents | - |
| Parents' wages: | Not known |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | No order made |
| Parents address: | 19 court 2 house Bissell Street, Birmingham |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | - |
| Person making this return: | - |
11 May 1881 There is a report of his crime in the Birmingham Mail Wednesday 11 May 1881 p.3 col.4: UTTERLY INCORRIGIBLE. William Perry (12) Lilly Green, Joseph Stevens (12), and Charles Stevens (8), no fixed residence, and Charles Raymond (15) [name given thus],tin-plate worker, Bissell Street, were charged with absconding from the Birmingham Workhouse, and stealing four suits of clothes from the parochial wardrobe. Prisoners: were charged a few days since with wandering about the streets without proper guardianship, and were remanded to the Workhouse for a week. On Monday evening they went to bed, but were missed on the following morning, and on a search being made for them it was found that they had not only broken out of the ward, but had broken into the clothes room and provided themselves with a suit of clothes each. They had shown great skill and ingenuity in picking the locks of the doors they had to pass through. The elder Stevens was charged on the 8th ult. with stealing some brass the property of the Midland Railway Company, and was then remanded to the Workhouse, whence he escaped two days afterwards. Perry was sent to a reformatory for four years, the younger Stevens for six years, Davis for five years, with twenty-one days' imprisonment, and the other juvenile was ordered to receive twelve strokes with a birch rod.
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