| No. in Admissions Register: | 357 |
| Date of admission: | 8 July 1867 |
| Whence received: | Stafford |
| By whom brought: | - |
| On what terms: | - |
| Friends interested in him: | - |
| Description: | |
| Height: | - |
| Figure: | - |
| Complexion: | Dark |
| Hair colour: | Black (?) |
| Eyes colour: | Grey |
| Perfect vision? | Yes |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Sound intellect? | - |
| Use of all limbs? | - |
| Had cow or small pox? | - |
| Particular marks: | Cut on corner of left [not stated which part of body is meant] |
| Cutaneous disorder? | - |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | - |
| Subject to fits? | - |
| Age last birthday: | 11 |
| Illegitimate? | - |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | - |
| Has resided: | Tramping about |
| Parish he belongs to: | Sheffield |
| 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 a dog |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | - |
| Date of sentence: | 8 June 1867 |
| Where convicted: | Stafford |
| Who prosecuted: | - |
| Where imprisoned: | - |
| Sentence: | 1 month prison, 4 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals and convictions: | None known |
| Father's name: | Phoenix Boswell |
| Occupation: | Travelling tinker |
| Residence: | - |
| Mother's name: | - |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | - |
| Father's character: | - |
| Mother's character: | - |
| Parents dead? | - |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Good |
| Character of parents | - |
| Parents' wages: | Not known |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | Nothing |
| 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 June 1867 The crime was reported in the Staffordshire Advertiser Saturday 8 June 1867 p.7 col.3: THEFT OF A DOG BY GIPSY LADS- Two gipsy lads. named Isaiah Boswell [first name an error, should be Messiah] and William Moore, were charged with stealing a valuable greyhound dog. the property of Mr. H. Twigg, of Barnfields. The prisoners were found sleeping in an outhouse in the neighbourhood of Stafford one night, and were taken before the magistrates, who discharged them. It appears that they were going Cannock Chase, where they said their mothers were gathering materials for making besoms, when on passing the prosecutor's residence they selected the dog in question from several others belonging to the prosecutor. and went away with it. The same day they were found at Bednall with the dog in their possession. They were remanded until to-day (Saturday).
6 October 1869 Licensed to work with his father
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