| No. in Admissions Register: | 114 |
| Date of admission: | 24 September 1857 |
| Whence received: | Birmingham Borough Gaol |
| By whom brought: | - |
| On what terms: | Committed |
| Friends interested in him: | - |
| Description: | |
| Height: | - |
| Figure: | - |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Brown |
| Eyes colour: | Blue |
| Perfect vision? | Yes |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Sound intellect? | Yes |
| Use of all limbs? | Yes |
| Had cow or small pox? | Cowpox |
| Particular marks: | Small mark on right shoulder |
| Cutaneous disorder? | No |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | No |
| Subject to fits? | No |
| Age last birthday: | 8 |
| Illegitimate? | No |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | Not known |
| Has resided: | 36 or 99 Holliday Street, Birmingham |
| Parish to which he belongs: | Not known |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Nothing |
| Schools attended: | - |
| By whom and where employed: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Knows alphabet |
| Writes: | Nil |
| Cyphers: | - |
| General ability | - |
| Offence: | Stealing a rule |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Not known |
| Date of sentence: | 11 September 1857 |
| Where convicted: | Moor Street, Birmingham before J S Kynnersley, Esq |
| Sentence: | 1 month in prison, 5 years at Saltley |
| Where imprisoned: | - |
| Previous committals and convictions: | None |
| Father's name: | Abraham Barnes |
| Occupation: | at foundry |
| Residence: | 36 Holliday Street, Birmingham |
| Mother's name: | Alice Barnes |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | - |
| Father's character: | Not known |
| Mother's character: | - |
| Parents dead? | No |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Not known |
| Character of parents: | - |
| Parents' wages: | Not known |
| Weekly amount parents will pay: | 19d |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | - |
| Relatives to communicate with: | - |
| Person making this return: | D Meadon, Governor, Birmingyham Borough Gaol |
| Estimate of character on admission | - |
| Character on discharge: | - |
| When and how left the Reformatory: | - |
14 September 1857 There is a report of his crime in Aris's Birmingham Gazette Monday 14 September 1857 p.4 col.5: A boy only eight years of age, named Samuel Barnes, was charged with burglary. This precocious young thief, it appeared, planned and effected a breakage into the workshop of Mr Bennett, in Holliday Street. Several panes of glass were removed from a window, and by this means the boy succeeded in getting into the shop, where he was found concealed under a bench, with a two-foot rule, the property of Mr Bennett, concealed in his bosom. When apprehended he began to cry, and said he would never do such a thing again. A fortnight ago the shop was entered in a similar manner, and the boy had been twice before detected in robberies in the same neighbourhood. - He was remanded for a few days, in order that enquiries might be made, with a view to his admission into a Reformatory School.
3 October 1857 ran home to Birmingham
26 July 1858 up to this date he has gone on and is going on well
11 January 1859 taken ill of scarlet fever and taken to the Queen's hospital, Birmingham
21 September 1862 discharged. Went home.
8 July 1863 called at the School. Is working for J Willis, Ladywood Lane
1 January 1864 heard of working for his father. Conduct fair
2 March 1864 Mr Tanner sent the word that he had been in prison in 1863
January 1865 committed for 5 years penal servitude
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