| No. in Admissions Register: | 181 |
| Date of admission: | 7 August 1860 |
| Whence received: | Stafford Gaol |
| By whom brought: | - |
| On what terms: | - |
| Friends interested in him: | - |
| Description: | |
| Height: | - |
| Figure: | - |
| Complexion: | - |
| Hair colour: | - |
| Eyes colour: | - |
| Perfect vision? | Yes |
| State of health: | - |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Sound intellect? | Yes |
| Use of all limbs? | Yes |
| Had cow or small pox? | Smallpox |
| Particular marks: | - |
| Cutaneous disorder? | Boils on the face |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | Not apparent |
| Subject to fits? | No |
| Age last birthday: | 11 |
| Illegitimate? | Yes |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | Kingswinford |
| Has resided: | Brierley Hill, Kingswinford |
| Parish to which he belongs: | Kingswinford |
| Customary work and mode of life: | No occupation – a vagrant |
| Schools attended: | - |
| By whom and where employed: | |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Not at all |
| Writes: | Not at all |
| Cyphers: | - |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | Stealing one cloth jacket and one pair of boots |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Neglect of parents |
| Date of sentence: | 27 July 1860 |
| Where convicted: | Wordsley |
| Where imprisoned: | House of Correction, Stafford |
| Sentence: | 28 days prison, 5 years detention at Saltley |
| Previous committals and convictions: | - |
| Father's name: | William Pulley |
| Occupation: | Miner |
| Residence: | Not known |
| Mother's name: | - |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | - |
| Father's character: | Drunkard, has absconded and left his two youngest children to the parish |
| Mother's character: | - |
| Parents dead? | Mother |
| Survivor married again? | No |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Cruelty and driven from home |
| Character of parents | - |
| Parents' wages: | Father 4s per day as a miner |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | - |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | William Mills, Brierley Hill, Staffordshire |
| Relatives to communicate with: | - |
| Person making this return: | Henry King, clerk to the magistrates' public office, Stourbridge |
| Estimate of character on admission: | - |
| Character on discharge: | - |
| When and how left the Reformatory: | - |
14 July 1860 There is a brief report of his crime in the County Advertiser and Herald for Staffordshire and Worcestershire, Saturday 14 July 1860, p.2, col.6: YOUNG IN YEARS BUT A VETERAN IN INIQUITY. - Solomon Pulley, a lad of twelve years of age, was charged with stealing a jacket and a pair of boots from the house of Samuel Inston, Brierley Hill, on the 3rd of June last. The charge was proved, and the young delinquent sentenced to one month's imprisonment with hard labour, at the conclusion of which he is to be sent to a reformatory, there to remain for five years.
5 June 1862 Emigrated to Canada
14 August 1862 Heard from him. Is working for Mr Walker, farming, Eglinton, Toronto.
12 February 1863 Lowe [boy 151] says in his letter that Pulley and six boys from Kingswood had been detected in theft and committed to prison.
September 1863 Broadbent [boy 197] says Pulley is in the penitentiary.
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