| No. in Admissions Register: | 310 |
| Date of admission: | 31 July 1865 |
| Whence received: | Birmingham |
| By whom brought: | - |
| On what terms: | - |
| Friends interested in him: | - |
| Description: | |
| Height: | - |
| Figure: | - |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Dark brown |
| Eyes colour: | Grey |
| Perfect vision? | Yes |
| State of health: | - |
| Able-bodied? | - |
| Sound intellect? | Yes |
| Use of all limbs? | Yes |
| Had cow or small pox? | - |
| Particular marks: | scar on right eyebrow |
| Cutaneous disorder? | No |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | No |
| Subject to fits? | No |
| Age last birthday: | 14 |
| Illegitimate? | - |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | - |
| Has resided: | 12 court 1 house Ruston Street, Birmingham |
| Parish he belongs to: | - |
| 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: | Stealing 1s from his master |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | - |
| Date of sentence: | 18 July 1865 |
| Where convicted: | Moor Street before T C S Kynnersley |
| Who prosecuted: | - |
| Where imprisoned: | - |
| Sentence: | 14 days in prison, 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals and convictions: | None |
| Father's name: | - |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | - |
| Mother's name: | - |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | - |
| Father's character: | - |
| Mother's character: | - |
| Parents dead? | Both |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | - |
| Character of parents | - |
| Parents' wages: | - |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | - |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | - |
| Relatives to communicate with: | - |
| Person making this return: | T C S Kynnersley |
| Estimate of character on admission: | - |
| Character on discharge: | - |
| When and how left the Reformatory: | - |
19 July 1865 There is a report of the crime in the Birmingham Daily Gazette Wednesday 19 July 1865 p.6 col.2: AN INCORRIGIBLE.-George Spilsbury, 14, errand boy, residing at 34, Ruston Street, was charged with stealing a shilling, the money of his master, William Lilly, brush dealer, 68, Broad Street. The prosecutor stated that the prisoner had been in his employ for about seven weeks. On Friday night he was sent by the prosecutor's wife to get some medicine with a florin, the cost of the medicine he went fetch was a shilling. On his return he was asked for the shilling he had in change when he said be had lost it, which was false, as it was afterwards proved he had kept it and spent it. The prisoner was given into custody. His grandmother appeared at the Court and gave him a very bad character. He was sent to the house of correction for fourteen days, and at the expiration of that period to be sent to a reformatory school for five years.
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