| No. in Admissions Register: | 668 |
| Age: | 15 |
| Whence received: | H M Prison Birmingham |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Brown |
| Eyes colour: | Brown |
| Visage: | Oval |
| Particular marks: | Scar on left jaw |
| State of health: | - |
| Able-bodied? | - |
| Date of admission: | 5 June 1881 |
| Late residence: | No fixed residence |
| Parish he belongs to: | Birmingham |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Brass caster |
| Whether illegitimate: | No |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | Imperfectly |
| Offence: | Wilful and malicious damage |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Not known |
| Date of sentence, by whom and court: | 26 May 1881; A Biggs and G Marris; Birmingham Police Court |
| Where imprisoned: | Birmingham Prison |
| Sentence: | 14 days in prison, 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | 1 |
| Length: | 6 weeks |
| For what: | Stealing 5 dresses |
| Father's name: | David Ross (step-father) |
| Occupation: | - |
| Mother's name: | - |
| Occupation: | - |
| Parents dead? | Father |
| Survivor married again? | Mother married again |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Boy left house |
| Character of parents | Not known |
| Parents' wages: | - |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | No order made |
| Parents address: | Garbutt Street, Birmingham |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | - |
| Person making this return: | - |
27 May 1881 There is a report of the offence (with a different first name given) in the Birmingham Daily Post Friday 21 May 1881 p.6 col.6: WILFUL DAMAGE.- Oliver Wildsmith (19), Russon Street; Alfred True (16), Reservoir Road, Edgbaston; Charles Price (16) [nme presented thus], no fixed residence ; and Keziah Taylor (15), Clark Street, were charged with throwing stones at two horses, and doing damage to a hayrick, to the value of I0s., in St. Augustine's Road, yesterday morning. - The prosecutor stated that he was continually being annoyed by persons trespassing on his land, and doing damage to his materials, and, if possible, he wished kc make an example of the prisoners. - The father of True stated that his son had borne a good character, but had become acquainted with bad company, who had led him astray. - The prisoner Wildsmitlh said that the other two youths and himself had been out into the country to hear the nightingale, and feeling tired they lay under the hayrick to sleep, and the girl came to them about six o'clock in the morning. - The prisoner True was discharged; Wildsmith, who had been previously convicted, was sent to gaol for two months, with hard labour; Price was sentenced to fourteen days' imprisonment, and afterwards to go to a reformatory for five years; and Taylor was ordered to be detained in the Workhouse for a week.
14 June 1881 Received 10 sytokes with the cane on the posterior and confined in the cell for 4 days for sating he would run away the first the first time he had an opportunity and saying he cared for no-one in the Institution and that he meant to be master
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