| No. in Admissions Register: | 200 |
| Date of admission: | 26 December 1860 |
| Whence received: | Stafford Gaol |
| By whom brought: | - |
| On what terms: | - |
| Friends interested in him: | - |
| Description: | |
| Height: | - |
| Figure: | - |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | 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? | Both |
| 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: | No residence |
| Parish to which he belongs: | Stockport |
| Customary work and mode of life: | |
| Schools attended: | - |
| By whom and where employed: | Has travelled about the country the last two years getting his living |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Not at all |
| Writes: | Not at all |
| Cyphers: | |
| General ability: | |
| Offence: | An attempt to commit a felony |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Habit of life and an apparent propensity to stealing |
| Date of sentence: | 5 December 1860 |
| Where convicted: | Leek Petty Sessions |
| Where imprisoned: | - |
| Sentence: | 21 days prison, 3 years detention at Saltley |
| Previous committals and convictions: | Only 2 known – vagrancy (7 days); larceny (6 months) |
| Father's name: | Thomas Massey |
| Occupation: | Operative in cotton factory |
| Residence: | 7 Pownall Street, Stockport, near George Inn |
| Mother's name: | - |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | - |
| Father's character: | - |
| Mother's character: | - |
| Parents dead? | - |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | - |
| Character of parents | - |
| Parents' wages: | - |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | - |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | T Wollaston, Police Officer, Leek |
| Relatives to communicate with: | - |
| Person making this return: | T Wollaston, Police Officer, Leek |
| Estimate of character on admission: | - |
| Character on discharge: | - |
| When and how left the Reformatory: |
11 August 1860 A previous offence was reported in the Staffordshire Sentinel and Commercial and General Advertiser Saturday 11 August 1860 p.5 col.4: James Massey, a street shoe-black, charged with vagrancy, was sentenced to prison for a week [in Leek].
6 October 1860 Another previous offence is reported in the Staffordshire Sentinel and Commercial and General Advertiser Saturday 6 October 1860 p.6 col.2: A DISHONEST SHOEBLACK. - A lad named James Massey, a shoeblack, from Stockport, was placed in the dock charged with stealing a pair of scales, a 1lb. weight, and a basket, the property of John Cope, fruit dealer, Hanley. The prosecutor stated that he left the articles produced in the Hanley covered market on Saturday night, and on Monday morning he found they were gone. About dinner time on Sunday the prisoner went to a woman named Ann Dudley, Etruria-road, and offered the things for sale, but she, suspecting he had stolen them, kept them until she found owner. The prisoner pleaded guilty to the charge and was sentenced to one calendar month's imprisonment, with hard labour.
25 October 1862 Absconded
26 October 1862 Apprehended at Coventry and brought back on the 29th
23 April 1863 Absconded before breakfast
30 April 1863 Caught at Lichfield
24 December 1863 Discharged
September 1867 Called at the school, in a poor plight, on tramp
January 1869 Wrote from Sunderland, on board a collier brig.
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