| No. in Admissions Register: | 213 |
| Date of admission: | 28 March 1861 (should have been 28 February) |
| Whence received: | Warwick Gaol |
| By whom brought: | - |
| On what terms: | - |
| Friends interested in him: | - |
| Description: | |
| Height: | - |
| Figure: | Good |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Brown |
| Eyes colour: | Grey |
| Perfect vision? | Yes |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Sound intellect? | Yes |
| Use of all limbs? | Yes |
| Had cow or small pox? | - |
| Particular marks: | - |
| Cutaneous disorder? | Just recovering from bad head |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | No |
| Subject to fits? | No |
| Age last birthday: | 10 |
| Illegitimate? | No |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | - |
| Has resided: | At Spring Hill, Birmingham |
| Parish he belongs to: | Birmingham |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Gun stocking |
| Schools attended: | St Stephen's Sunday |
| By whom and where employed: | Mr Dawson, Priory |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Not at all |
| General ability: | Not at all |
| Cyphers: | - |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | Stealing 7 cigars |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | - |
| Date of sentence: | 1 February 1861 |
| Where convicted: | Erdington, A Dean and J Colmore Esqrs |
| Who prosecuted: | - |
| Where imprisoned: | - |
| Sentence: | 28 days prison, 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals and convictions: | One: stealing thimbles, 3 months |
| Father's name: | Osbaldiston Turner |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | - |
| Mother's name: | Mary Turner |
| Occupation: | Charwoman |
| Residence: | Cabbage Row, Stewart Street, Spring Hill, Birmingham |
| Father's character: | Deserted his family |
| Mother's character: | Good |
| Parents dead? | - |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Good by mother |
| Character of parents | - |
| Parents' wages: | Just able to keep herself |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | Not able to pay |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | G Glossop |
| Relatives to communicate with: | - |
| Person making this return: | - |
| Estimate of character on admission: | - |
| Character on discharge: | - |
| When and how left the Reformatory: | - |
2 February 1861 There is a report of his offence in Aris's Birmingham Gazette Saturday 2 February 1861 p.5 col.4: ERDINGTON PETTY SESSIONS. - At the Petty Sessions yesterday (Friday), before A. Dixon and T. Colmore, Esqrs., William Bermond. a middle-aged man, and Francis Turner, a child ten years old, were convicted of stealing cigars from the shop of Mr. Jackson, Aston Road. While the elder prisoner engaged the attention of the shop-woman, the boy committed the theft, and he afterwards confessed that he had been similarly engaged at many shops in Birmingham and elsewhere. at the elder prisoner's lodgings an extensive variety or articles were found, evidently the produce of a series of robberies, and about fifty pawn tickets. They were each sentenced to 28 days' imprisonment, the boy to be afterwards sent to a reformatory for five years. The police will in the meantime make enquiries respecting the elder prisoner
13 February 1864 Licensed to live with his brother and attend the military school at Shoeburyness
9 July [no year given] Came back to the school
12 July 1865 Licensed to work for his mother
July 1867 Called at the school. Doing well
June 1868 Saw him in town on his way to work
November 1869 Saw him in town on his way to work. Doing well
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