| No. in Admissions Register: | 271 |
| Date of admission: | 3 February 1864 |
| Whence received: | Stafford Prison |
| By whom brought: | - |
| On what terms: | - |
| Friends interested in him: | - |
| Description: | |
| Height: | - |
| Figure: | - |
| Complexion: | Pale |
| Hair colour: | Dark brown |
| Eyes colour: | Brown |
| Perfect vision? | Yes |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Sound intellect? | Yes |
| Use of all limbs? | Yes |
| Had cow or small pox? | Neither |
| Particular marks: | Cut over right eyebrow |
| Cutaneous disorder? | Not |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | Not apparent |
| Subject to fits? | Not |
| Age last birthday: | 11 |
| Illegitimate? | Not |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | - |
| Has resided: | Wolverhampton |
| Parish he belongs to: | Wolverhampton |
| Customary work and mode of life: | - |
| Schools attended: | - |
| By whom and where employed: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | Imperfectly |
| Cyphers: | - |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | Stealing a shoe brush |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Neglect by parents and bad company |
| Date of sentence: | 20 January 1864 |
| Where convicted: | Wolverhampton, before Isaac Spooner, Stipendiary Magistrate |
| Who prosecuted: | - |
| Where imprisoned: | - |
| Sentence: | 14 days, 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals and convictions: | Two: once flogged, once imprisoned |
| Father's name: | - |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | - |
| Mother's name: | Elizabeth Hayward |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | 14 Little Berry Street, Wolverhampton |
| Father's character: | - |
| Mother's character: | - |
| Parents dead? | Father is |
| Survivor married again? | No |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Neglectful |
| Character of parents | Bad. Dissolute. Health good. |
| Parents' wages: | 4s or 5s a week |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | Nothing |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | J Lavery |
| Relatives to communicate with: | - |
| Person making this return: | - |
| Estimate of character on admission: | - |
| Character on discharge: | - |
| When and how left the Reformatory: | - |
15 April 1863 A previous offence is reported in the Wolverhampton Chronicle and Staffordshire Advertiser Wednesday 15 April 1863 p.6 col.4: YOUNG IN YEARS BUT OLD IN CRIME.-Two young lads, named Samuel Haywood and Benjamin Tomkinscn, were charged with having stolen a pair of trousers from the shop of Mrs. Benjamins, of Berry-street. The trousers were stolen on the 21st of March last, from the shop door, and were afterwards found by detective Cadman on the prisoner Haywood, who then implicated Tomkinson. Both the prisoners bore a very bad character, and the Bench sentenced them to three months' imprisonment each.
27 January 1864 What looks like a report of the crime, but with a different surname for the culprit was in the Wolverhampton Chronicle and Staffordshire Advertiser Wednesday 27 January 1864 p.6 col.4: COMMITTAL TO A REFORMATORY.- At the Police Court, on Wednesday last, Samuel Hill [surname given thus], a boy aged 11 years, who had already been convicted, was found guilty of stealing a shoe brush from the shop of Mr. Carrier, hosier and haberdasher, in Cock-street, the week before last. He said lie had it from a boy, and did not know he had stolen it. The prisoner was committed to prison for 14 days, afterwards be sent to a Reformatory for five years.
2 February 1869 Discharged
January 1870 In Wolverhampton. Doing well
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