| No. in Admissions Register: | 189 |
| Date of admission: | 26 October 1860 |
| Whence received: | Stafford Gaol |
| By whom brought: | - |
| On what terms: | - |
| Friends interested in him: | - |
| Description: | |
| Height: | - |
| Figure: | Tall |
| Complexion: | Sallow |
| Hair colour: | Light |
| 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: | 14 |
| Illegitimate? | No |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | - |
| Has resided: | Messenger Lane, West Bromwich |
| Parish to which he belongs: | West Bromwich |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Collier, but mostly vagrant |
| Schools attended: | - |
| By whom and where employed: | |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | Imperfectly |
| Cyphers: | - |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | Stealing a pair of clogs |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | - |
| Date of sentence: | 15 October 1860 |
| Where convicted: | West Bromwich |
| Where imprisoned: | - |
| Sentence: | 14 days prison, 5 years detention at Saltley |
| Previous committals and convictions: | Once in the Return but boy says 6 |
| Father's name: | William Morris |
| Occupation: | Nailer |
| Residence: | Messenger Lane, West Bromwich |
| Mother's name: | Mary Morris |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | - |
| Father's character: | - |
| Mother's character: | - |
| Parents dead? | - |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Neglectful |
| Character of parents | A cripple, hurt in a coalpit |
| Parents' wages: | 10s a week |
| Amount parents agree tp pay: | 1s a week |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | John Holland, Inspector of Police, West Bromwich |
| Relatives to communicate with: | - |
| Person making this return: | J Holland, as above |
| Estimate of character on admission: | - |
| Character on discharge: | - |
| When and how left the Reformatory: | - |
20 October 1860 There is a brief report of his crime in the Staffordshire Advertiser Saturday 20 October 1860, p.7, col.6: PETTY THEFT. - John Morris, a boy, was charged with stealing a pair of clogs, the property of Edward Ward. Both parties are employed at Messrs Grice's works in Spon Lane, from whence the clogs were missed. It was found that the prisoner had stolen and sold them to a boy in the road for some victuals. He was sent to gaol for fourteen days, afterwards to be detained five years in the Saltley Reformatory.
17 July 1864 Licensed to work for Mr Grice, bolt forger, Spon Lane, West Bromwich.
November 1866 Enlisted at Aldershot. Good.
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