| No. in Admissions Register: | 227 |
| Date of admission: | 30 September 1861 |
| Whence received: | - |
| By whom brought: | - |
| On what terms: | - |
| Friends interested in him: | - |
| Description: | |
| Height: | - |
| Figure: | - |
| Complexion: | - |
| Hair colour: | - |
| Eyes colour: | - |
| Perfect vision? | - |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Sound intellect? | - |
| Use of all limbs? | - |
| Had cow or small pox? | - |
| Particular marks: | - |
| Cutaneous disorder? | - |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | - |
| Subject to fits? | - |
| Age last birthday: | - |
| Illegitimate? | - |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | - |
| Has resided: | Birmingham |
| Parish he belongs to: | Liverpool |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Sailor |
| Schools attended: | - |
| By whom and where employed: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | Imperfectly |
| Cyphers: | - |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | Pocket picking |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Neglect of parents |
| Date of sentence: | 1 April 1861 |
| Where convicted: | Birmingham, before the Recorder |
| Who prosecuted: | - |
| Where imprisoned: | Birmingham |
| Sentence: | - |
| Previous committals and convictions: | Three, for larceny |
| Father's name: | George Poulson |
| Occupation: | Works at tobacconist |
| Residence: | On tramp |
| Mother's name: | Mary Poulson |
| Occupation: | Works at tobacconist |
| Residence: | - |
| Father's character: | - |
| Mother's character: | - |
| Parents dead? | - |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Bad |
| Character of parents | Dissolute |
| Parents' wages: | Not known |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | None |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | G Povey, Burslem |
| Relatives to communicate with: | - |
| Person making this return: | W E Oakeford, Peckleton |
| Estimate of character on admission: | - |
| Character on discharge: | - |
| When and how left the Reformatory: | - |
2 April 1861 There is a probable report of the crime, with his surname badly misheard/ misconstrued in the Birmingham Daily Post Tuesday 2 April 1861 p.2 col.6: PICKING POCKETS AT THE THEATRE DOOR. - Two youths, named George Wassall and George Balsam were proved to have picked the pocket of a respectable married woman, named Georgiana, Nicholls. The case was proved by a respectable man, a pensioner with three medals. He showed that as soon as the pair of thieves had possessed themselves of the purse of Mrs. Nicholls, they gave the money, with lbs exception of 1s. and some coppers, to two men who stood near, apparently for the purpose of receiving the plunder. They were laid hold of by the witness, ant taken to the station. A verdict of guilty was returned, and Balsam was sent to the Akbar receiving ship, at Liverpool for five years, and Wassall had one year's Imprisonment In gaol, with hard labour. [The Akbar was an old frigate converted to a training ship/ reformatory. The boy was presumably transferred from the Akbar to Saltley after a few months, judging by the gap between the trial and his admission to Saltley].
10 March 1862 Absconded
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