| No. in Admissions Register: | 163 |
| Date of admission: | 6 February 1860 |
| Whence received: | Stafford Gaol |
| By whom brought: | A warder |
| On what terms: | - |
| Friends interested in him: | None |
| Description: | |
| Height: | 4ft 8 ins |
| Figure: | Slim |
| Complexion: | Fair |
| Hair colour: | Brown |
| Eyes colour: | Brown |
| Perfect vision? | Yes |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Sound intellect? | Yes |
| Use of all limbs? | Yes |
| Had cow or small pox? | Cow pox |
| Particular marks: | None |
| Cutaneous disorder? | No |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | No |
| Subject to fits? | No |
| Age last birthday: | 12 |
| Illegitimate? | No |
| Birthday: | Not known |
| Birth place: | Not known |
| Has resided: | Workhouse, Walsall |
| Parish to which he belongs: | Not known |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Collier |
| Schools attended: | None |
| By whom and where employed: | William Davis, collier, Bilston |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | None |
| Writes: | None |
| Cyphers: | None |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | Stealing brass and iron |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Bad company |
| Date of sentence: | 6 January 1860 |
| Where convicted: | Bilston |
| Where imprisoned: | Stafford |
| Sentence: | 1 month prison, 2 years detention at Saltley |
| Previous committals and convictions: | None |
| Father's name: | Samuel Shuter |
| Occupation: | Collier |
| Residence: | Not known |
| Mother's name: | Sarah Shuter |
| Occupation: | Washerwoman |
| Residence: | Workhouse, Walsall |
| Father's character: | Drunken. Supposed to have employed this boy in passing bad money - |
| Mother's character: | Suspected of drinking. Boy says not. |
| Parents dead? | No |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Mother kind but father harsh |
| Character of parents | Good health |
| Parents' wages: | Father's from 3s-5s a day, mother's not known |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | Have not engaged to pay anything. Father ought to pay 1s a week if he can be found |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | Superintendant Cater, Walsall |
| Relatives to communicate with: | Mother, as above |
| Person making this return: | Mr Cater, Superintendant of Police, Walsall |
| Estimate of character on admission: | Shrewd |
| Character on discharge: | - |
| When and how left the Reformatory: |
11 January 1860 There is a report of his crime in the Wolverhampton Chronicle and Staffordshire Advertiser Wednesday 11 January 1860 p.7 col.1 {note, the boy's first name is given as Daniel in this report]: STEALING ENGINE BRASSES. - At the petty sessions, on Friday, before the Rev H. S. Fletcher and H. Ward, W. Davis, 26. and Daniel Shuter, 13, were charged with stealing some brasses, value 15s., the property of the Shlffnal Banking Company, from a void engine at Bilston. John Evans, a collier, deposed that at half-past two o'clock, on Tuesday last, he saw the two prisoners ungearing a lift at the engine in question, and getting the taps out. He went and informed a man named Burkes and they returned to the spot together. He then found Davis on the top of the engine house endeavouring to conceal himself. The brasses wera Iying about. George Burkes confirmed the statement of this witness. Isaiah Hill, a mine agent, and agent to the prosecutors, proved that the engine was their property. He also said that he had recently had the engine cleaned, and the fixed portions were then in good order. Brasses similar to those produced by the police bad lately been stolen therefrom. Owen Smith, sergeant of police, and Hackett, one of the police constables, proved the apprehension of the prisoners and finding the brasses. Both prisoners pleaded guilty. Davis was committed for six months with hard labour, and the lad Shuter ordered to be imprisoned for one month, and afterwards to be detained at Saltley Reformatory for two years.
7 May 1861 The Minute Book reported: 780. On reading Minute 771 Mr Humphreys recommended that Pennefather be withdrawn from the list and that Wilson [boy 153] and Shuter [boy 163] be added to the other boys (Brittain [boy 111] and Lowe [boy 151]) as candidates for emigration to Canada.
May 1862 Lord Lichfield informed me of his committal to Stafford prison
July 1864 Now unknown
October 1864 Called at the school. Character doubtful.
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