| No. in Admissions Register: | 584 |
| Age: | 13 |
| Whence received: | Birmingham Gaol |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Brown |
| Eyes colour: | Grey |
| Visage: | - |
| Particular marks: | 2 spots left lower arm |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | - |
| Date of admission and term: | 24 October 1877 5 years |
| Late residence: | Black Lion Yard, Hurst Street, Birmingham |
| Parish he belongs to: | Birmingham |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Box making |
| Whether illegitimate: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | - |
| Offence: | Stealing 12 pocket knives |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | - |
| Date of sentence, by who and court: | 11 October 1877, Moor Street, T C S Kynnersley |
| Where imprisoned: | Birmingham |
| Sentence: | 14 days prison (hard labour), 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | - |
| Length: | - |
| For what: | - |
| Father's name: | Samuel Harris |
| Occupation: | Turner |
| Mother's name: | - |
| Occupation: | - |
| Parents dead? | Mother |
| Survivor married again? | No – father cohabits with another woman |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Fair |
| Character of parents | Drunken |
| Parents' wages: | - |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | Not stated |
| Parents address: | Black Lion Yard, Hurst Street, Birmingham |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | - |
| Person making this return: | - |
12 October 1877 There is a report of the crime in the Birmingham Daily Gazette Friday 12 October 1877 p.5 col.4: STEALING POCKET KNlVES.- William Harris (11), box maker, Hurst Street; George Briley (16), shoe finisher, Ladywell Walk; and James Paul (15), Edgbaston Street, were charged with stealing one dozen knives, from the warehouse of Ennil Schram Edgbaston Street, on the Bth Inst.-Detective-sergeant Cooper apprehended the prisoners at different periods. -The prisoners Harris and Briley pleaded guilty, but denied that Paul had a hand it.-Paul was discharged. Harris was ordered to be sent to prison for fourteen days, and afterwards to be sent to a reformatory school for five years. Briley was committed to gaol for three months.
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