| No. in Admissions Register: | 314 |
| Date of admission: | 5 October 1865 |
| Whence received: | Birmingham |
| By whom brought: | - |
| On what terms: | - |
| Friends interested in him: | - |
| Description: | |
| Height: | - |
| Figure: | - |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Brown |
| Eyes colour: | Hazel |
| Perfect vision? | Yes |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Sound intellect? | Yes |
| Use of all limbs? | Yes |
| Had cow or small pox? | Cowpox |
| Particular marks: | Mole on left thigh |
| Cutaneous disorder? | No |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | No |
| Subject to fits? | No |
| Age last birthday: | 14 |
| Illegitimate? | - |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | - |
| Has resided: | 14 Proud Cross, Kidderminster |
| Parish he belongs to: | Kidderminster |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Weaver |
| Schools attended: | - |
| By whom and where employed: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | Not |
| Cyphers: | - |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | Vagrancy |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | - |
| Date of sentence: | 15 September 1865 |
| Where convicted: | Birmingham before J Thornton and C Sturge |
| Who prosecuted: | - |
| Where imprisoned: | - |
| Sentence: | 21 days in prison (hard labour), 4 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals and convictions: | Stealing nuts |
| Father's name: | William Tyers |
| Occupation: | Weaver |
| Residence: | 14 Proud Cross, Kidderminster |
| Mother's name: | Ann Tyers |
| Occupation: | None |
| Residence: | 14 Proud Cross, Kidderminster |
| Father's character: | - |
| Mother's character: | - |
| Parents dead? | - |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Kindly |
| Character of parents | Steady. Has four young children |
| Parents' wages: | 14s or 15s a week |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | Not thought able to pay anything |
| 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: | - |
8 February 1865 There is a report of his previous offence in the Worcestershire Chronicle Wednesday 8 February 1865 p.4 col.4: JUVENILE THIEVES ON AN EXCURSION TO "BRUM."-At the Birmingham Police Court, on Saturday, Samuel Tyers, fourteen, describing himself as a boiler maker, from Kidderminster, and George Mason, ten, also from Kidderminster, were brought up charged with helping themselves to a quantity of nuts, value 9d., the property of Mr. Daniel Bayley, fruiterer, from a stall at the back of the Market Hall, Worcester-street. On Saturday morning, about half-past one o'clock, P.C. Francom was on duty in the neighbourhood when he saw one of the prisoners abstracting the nuts from under a canvas, under which several bags of nuts, &c., had been placed in preparation for Saturday's market. The officer went to him, and found that he had put the nuts into a basket. Francom made some enquiries of him, and he told the officer that he had a comrade who had gone to sleep in the new buildings (meaning those in course of erection in Worcester-street). On going there the officer found the other one, and took them both into custody. The prisoners acknowledged the offence, and were sentenced to four days' imprisonment, and the magistrates ordered that their parents be communicated with in order that they might attend at Birmingham to receive the prisoners on their release from prison.
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