| No. in Admissions Register: | 66 |
| Date of admission: | 1 February 1855 |
| Weekly payments: | - |
| Age: | 10 |
| Education: | Inferior |
| Previous employment: | Clipping tin boy |
| Crimes, how often and in what prison: | First offence |
| Training in reformatory: | 26 April 1858 |
| When left reformatory: | Shoemaker |
| Parentage and family: | Father and Mother living |
| Residence: | Littleworth, near Stroud |
| Trade of father: | Shoemaker |
| With whom the boy is placed: | Went home |
| Address: | - |
| Trade: | - |
6 January 1855 There is a very brief report of Russ’s crime in the Bristol Mercury Saturday 6 January 1855 p.4 col.3: One month: …Thomas Russ, for house breaking and robbery at Philip Carter’s, at Minchinhampton. The prisoner is also to serve four years in the Reformatory School at Hardwich [Hardwicke].
10 May 1856 Russ’s father failed to make the required maintenance payments, as reported in the Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard Saturday 10 May 1856 p.1 col.5: HORSLEY…PETTY SESSIONS… Samuel Merrett, of Nailsworth, Daniel Russ, of Littleworth, and Thomas French, of Uley, appeared on summonses issued by William Morgan, Esq., of Mirmingham, the agent of the Secretary of State, for enforcing contributions from parents for the maintenance of criminal boys detained in Reformatories… Mr Morgan stated that Thomas Russ, the son of Daniel Russ, was at Saltley Reformatory, near Birmingham. The father was ordered to pay 1s per week. In this case it will be recollected the boy’s offence was perpetrated as long ago as December, 1854. He had broken open a house in Minchinhampton, and stolen some cheese, etc, when the family were at chapel. A previous summary conviction had produced no effect upon him, but it is hoped that his present occupation, and the instructions he is receiving at Saltley will produce a complete change in the boy’s character.
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