| No. in Admissions Register: | 179 |
| Date of admission: | 25 July 1860 |
| Whence received: | Stafford Gaol |
| By whom brought: | Chief warder |
| On what terms: | - |
| Friends interested in him: | - |
| Description: | |
| Height: | - |
| Figure: | - |
| Complexion: | Brown |
| Hair colour: | Dark brown |
| 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? | Cowpox |
| Particular marks: | None |
| Cutaneous disorder? | - |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | No |
| Subject to fits? | No |
| Age last birthday: | 14 |
| Illegitimate? | No |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | Market Drayton |
| Has resided: | - |
| Parish to which he belongs: | West Bromwich |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Apprentice to a chimney sweeper |
| Schools attended: | - |
| By whom and where employed: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Nil |
| Writes: | Nil |
| Cyphers: | - |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | Larceny |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | - |
| Date of sentence: | 10 July 1860 |
| Where convicted: | Wednesbury |
| Where imprisoned: | Stafford |
| Sentence: | 14 days prison, 5 years detention at Saltley |
| Previous committals and convictions: | Larceny (10 days in prison, whipping) |
| Father's name: | Peter Boswell |
| Occupation: | Rag and bone gatherer |
| Residence: | Colbys (?) Lane, West Bromwich |
| Mother's name: | Harriet Boswell |
| Occupation: | Rag and bone gatherer |
| Residence: | Colbys (?) Lane, West Bromwich |
| Father's character: | Nothing known against them by the police |
| Mother's character: | Nothing known against them by the police |
| Parents dead? | No |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Believed to have been good |
| Character of parents | - |
| Parents' wages: | 15s |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | 1s a week |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | Major M Knight, Deputy Chief Constable, West Bromwich |
| Relatives to communicate with: | - |
| Person making this return: | J Collins Ward, clerk to the magistrayes, Wolverhampton |
| Estimate of character on admission: | - |
| Character on discharge: | - |
| When and how left the Reformatory: | - |
31 March 1860 There is a short report on his previous conviction in the Staffordshire Advertiser Saturday 31 March 1860, p.6, col.6: STEALING A FOWL . Two well known young thieves, named Thomas Boswell and John Thomas Martin, were charged with stealing a fowl, from the premises of Joseph Owen. They were seen on the Handsworth turnpike road by Shipton. the foreman of the road workers, and not being able give any satisfactory account of its possession, were given over to the officer. The fowl was produced alive, and identified by the owner. Inspector Holland called the attention of the magistrates to the fact that the two prisoners formed part of a bad lot of young thieves, twenty in number, who gave great trouble to the police, and much annoyance to the inhabitants of the town, from their constant petty thefts. They were sent Stafford for ten days, and to be once privately whipped.
12 July There is a short report of the crime that sent him to Saltley in the Birmingham Post Thursday 12 July 1860, p.3, col.2: JUVENILE DEPRAVITY.- At the Police Court, Wednesbury Petty Sessions on Tuesday yesterday before Mr Leigh and Mr Jesson, Thomas Boswell, a lad only thirteen years of age, was charged with having stolen a pair of shoes and some food, the property of Benjamin Trussell. The evidence clearly substantiated the prisoner's guilt, and he admitted having been previously convicted. Sentence, fourteen days' imprisonment, and afterwards to sent to the Saltley Reformatory for five years.
4 January 1861 Clay bank fell on him and serious injured him
8 January 1861 The Reformatory Minute Book stats: 752. The Superintendent reported that since the last meeting the boy Jones who was then ill has died and that another boy, Thomas Boswell, has met with a serious accident but is recovering.
The Committee had an interview with Mr Tarleton, Honorary Surgeon, who explained the circumstances relating to the above two cases and stated that he anticipated that Boswell will recover.
30 January 1865 Licensed to work at an iron works at West Bromwich
January 1866 In prison
January 1868 In Royal Marines
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