| No. in Admissions Register: | 165 |
| Date of admission: | 17 February 1860 |
| Whence received: | Walsall Gaol |
| By whom brought: | - |
| On what terms: | - |
| Friends interested in him: | - |
| Description: | |
| Height: | - |
| Figure: | Slight |
| Complexion: | Pale |
| Hair colour: | Dark |
| Eyes colour: | Hazel |
| Perfect vision? | Yes |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Sound intellect? | Yes |
| Use of all limbs? | Yes |
| Had cow or small pox? | Vaccinated |
| Particular marks: | None |
| Cutaneous disorder? | No |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | No |
| Subject to fits? | No |
| Age last birthday: | 8 |
| Illegitimate? | No |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | - |
| Has resided: | Walsall |
| Parish to which he belongs: | Portsmouth |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Boot lacing |
| Schools attended: | None |
| By whom and where employed: | Mr Shelly, Hawk Street, Walsall |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Not at all |
| Writes: | Not at all |
| Cyphers: | - |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | Stealing a pair of boots, value 9s |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Neglect on part of parents |
| Date of sentence: | 6 February 1860 |
| Where convicted: | Walsall |
| Where imprisoned: | Borough Gaol, Walsall |
| Sentence: | 14 days prison, 3 years detention at Saltley |
| Previous committals and convictions: | None |
| Father's name: | Edward McIver |
| Occupation: | Gentlemen's boot clean |
| Residence: | Fidoes Yard, Rushall Street, Walsall |
| Mother's name: | Mary McIver |
| Occupation: | Gentlemen's boot clean |
| Residence: | - |
| Father's character: | Drunken |
| Mother's character: | Drunken |
| Parents dead? | No |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Sadly neglected |
| Character of parents | Drunkards |
| Parents' wages: | £2 15s per week |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | Ordered by magistrate to pay 2s 6d per week |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | J W Cater, police officer, Walsall |
| Relatives to communicate with: | - |
| Person making this return: | J W Cater, police officer, Walsall |
| Estimate of character on admission: | Intelligent |
| Character on discharge: | - |
| When and how left the Reformatory: | - |
11 February 1860 There is a report of his offence in the Walsall Free Press and General Advertiser Saturday 11 February 1860 p.4 col.2: Another Case of Boot Stealing.- Daniel McIver, aged eight years, was charged with having stolen a pair of boots, from a stall in the market. Chief constable Cater said this was a very melancholy case, the parents of the child were drunkards, and this was the effect of their bad example. The boy is a most intelligent little fellow. The lad's mother who was in court, said she begged leave to contradict the statement made by Mr. Cater, relative to her being a drunkard. It appeared the boy had gone to the stall kept by Mr. William Halford, and after cutting a hole in the cover, he stole the bools. A lad who had witnessed the affair seized hold of the prisoner, and succeeded in taking one of the boots off him, and returned it to the owner, who gave information to the police. Meantime the prisoner and an accomplice went to the shop of Mr. Ratcliffe, shoemaker, Upper Rushall-street, and offered the other boot for sale. Mr. Ratclifle detained the boot, and told the prisoner to send the owner and he would purchase it. The prisoner and his accomplice left the shop, and returned in a few minutes and endeavoured to snatch the boot off the counter, but witness prevented them, and kept the boot till sergeant Mason called, to whom witness gave the boot. After hearing the evidence, the Bench adjourned the case till Friday, in order to afford the magistrates time to communicate with the authorities at the Reformatory, with a view to having the prisoner sent thither.
16 February 1863 returned to his friends at Walsall
January 1867 In Birmingham working for his father. Not very tidy but not reconvicted
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