| No. in Admissions Register: | 691 |
| Age: | 12 |
| Whence received: | H M Prison Stafford |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Brown |
| Eyes colour: | Grey |
| Visage: | - |
| Particular marks: | Lost end of left hand |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Date of admission: | 16 February 1882 |
| Late residence: | 7 Little Cross Street, Bilston Street, Wolverhampton |
| Parish he belongs to: | Wolverhampton |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Schoolboy |
| Whether illegitimate: | No |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | Imperfectly |
| Offence: | House breaking and larceny therefrom |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Keeping bad company and having drunken parents |
| Date of sentence, by whom and court: | 20 January 1882; Mr Justice North; Stafford Assizes |
| Where imprisoned: | H M Prison Stafford |
| Sentence: | 28 days in prison, 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | 2 |
| Length: | 1) 3 days in prison and whipped; 2) 1 month |
| For what: | 1) Picking pockets; 2) stealing 4½ lbs of tobacco |
| Father's name: | Jabus Barley |
| Occupation: | Edge tool maker |
| Mother's name: | Ann Barley |
| Occupation: | - |
| Parents dead? | Neither |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Good |
| Character of parents | Not good - father been several times in prison |
| Parents' wages: | Boy says 30s per week |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | To be decided by the justices |
| Parents address: | 7 Little Cross Street, Bilston Street, Wolverhampton |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | Major Hay, Chief Constable, Wolverhampton |
| Person making this return: | R D Hay, Chief Constable, Wolverhampton |
20 October 1881 There is a report of a previous crime, but the part of the sentence sending the boy to a reformatory does not accord with the details given in the Admissions Register, as he did not arrive at Saltley until 3 months later. The report is in the Wolverhampton Express and Star Thursday 20 October 1881 p.3 col.4: JUVENILE THIEF. - James Barley (12), a neglected. looking lad, from 4 Court, Warwick-street, was brought up in custody charged with stealing 4½ lbs. of tobacco, the property of Joseph Firmstone, tobacconist, Horsley-fields, on Tuesday last. - The wife of the prosecutor said that, hearing a noise in her shop, she ran out of the kitchen, and in the shop found the prisoner with a roll of twist tobacco in his hand, which he had taken from the counter. On seeing her he dropped the roll, and she seized and held him awhile and then let him go. He was apprehended last night by Police- constable Purchase. - The prisoner was declared by his father (who was accompanied by a wretched-looking wife) to be incorrigible, but Mr. Lea, School Board officer, said he had very bad examples at home. - The Bench committed the boy to gaol for a month, and a reformatory for five years.
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