| No. in Admissions Register: | 278 |
| Date of admission: | 21 July 1864 |
| Whence received: | Stafford |
| By whom brought: | - |
| On what terms: | - |
| Friends interested in him: | - |
| Description: | |
| Height: | - |
| Figure: | - |
| Complexion: | Fair |
| Hair colour: | Brown |
| Eyes colour: | Dark |
| Perfect vision? | - |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Sound intellect? | - |
| Use of all limbs? | - |
| Had cow or small pox? | - |
| Particular marks: | None |
| Cutaneous disorder? | - |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | - |
| Subject to fits? | - |
| Age last birthday: | 12 |
| Illegitimate? | - |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | - |
| Has resided: | 8 Caribee Street, Wolverhampton |
| Parish he belongs to: | Wolverhampton |
| Customary work and mode of life: | - |
| Schools attended: | - |
| By whom and where employed: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Not at all |
| Writes: | Not at all |
| Cyphers: | - |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | Larceny |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Bad company |
| Date of sentence: | 7 July 1864 |
| Where convicted: | Wolverhampton before C Perry and T S Shincliffe |
| Who prosecuted: | - |
| Where imprisoned: | - |
| Sentence: | 14 days, 4 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals and convictions: | - |
| Father's name: | Terence Lyons |
| Occupation: | Farm labourer |
| Residence: | 8 Caribee Street, Wolverhampton |
| Mother's name: | Bridget Lyons |
| Occupation: | Employed at a mariner store |
| Residence: | - |
| Father's character: | - |
| Mother's character: | - |
| Parents dead? | - |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Good |
| Character of parents | Honest, sober, and in good health. Poor circumstances |
| Parents' wages: | Father 10s per week, mother 4s 6d |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | - |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | - |
| Relatives to communicate with: | - |
| Person making this return: | - |
| Estimate of character on admission: | - |
| Character on discharge: | - |
| When and how left the Reformatory: | - |
20 January 1864 There is a report of a previous offence in the Wolverhampton Chronicle and Staffordshire Advertiser Wednesday 20 January 1864 p.6 col.3: THE SHOEBLACKS AGAIN.-A lad, about eleven years of age, named James Lyons, another of the shoeblack fraternity, was brought before the Bench for obstructing the footpath in Queen-street, and the top of Horsley-fields. The offence was proved by police constable Tue, who added that defendant and his companions set him at defiance by moving from one footpath and congregating on another when witness ordered them to disperse, and even repeated the offence after the present summons had been issued. -Mr, Walton, (one of the sitting magistrates), said the nuisance these lads created by congregating together on the footpaths leading from Queen-street to the railway station, was really abominable, and their language and conduct towards each other was of such a character that no respectable female could pass by without having her feelings very much shocked. Only the other day he (Mr. Walton) had to interfere between two of them, one having given the other a very violent blow in the face.-The defendant was ordered to pay a penalty 2s.6d and costs, or seven days' imprisonment.
27 Apr 1864 There was another brush with the law reported in the Wolverhampton Chronicle and Staffordshire Advertiser Wednesday 27 April 1864 p.6 col.3: "FISHING" PIG IRON OUT OF THE CANAL-Three lads, named Thomas Haley, 16, John Birmingham, 13, and James Lyons. 12, were charged on suspicion of having stolen a bar of pig-iron. Police-constable Roberts stated that on the previous evening his attention was called to the three prisoners- Haley and Birmingham were carrying the bar of iron produced, and were endeavouring to sell it; the other prisoner, Lyons, was accompanying them. On asking the two former where they had got the iron from, they replied that they had been bathing in the canal near the Swan Garden Iron Works, and had "fished" it up from the bottom. Witness then took the three into custody, on the charge of having stolen the iron. Lyons was discharged with a caution; the other two were remanded until Wednesday, for the police to make inquiries as to the ownership of the iron.
13 July 1864 There is a report of the crime that sent him to Saltley in the Wolverhampton Chronicle and Staffordshire Advertiser Wednesday 13 July 1864 p.6 col.4: A YOUNG CRIMINAL.-A dirty-looking Irish lad, named James Lyons, about twelve years of age, resident of Stafford-street, and who has caused considerable trouble to the police, and likewise the inhabitants of that locality by his repeated peculations, was again placed in the dock, charged with having stolen two red herrings, which he had been seen to take from the stall of a shop, in Stafford- street belonging to William Meredith. The case was proved by a little girl, named Rosannah Allen. When taken into custody, the prisoner admitted to Inspector Thomas that he had taken one herring which he coolly added he had eaten. He now tried to make the Bench believe that the herrings were stolen and given to him by another lad. The Magistrates, however, refused to give credence to his story, and Mr. Perry alter reading over a list of the young culprit's previous offences sentenced him to fourteen days' imprisonment in Stafford gaol, and after that to be kept in the Saltley Reformatory for four years.
December 1869 At Wolverhampton. Good [character]
January 1871 In prison. Bad
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