| No. in Admissions Register: | 594 |
| Age: | 14 |
| Whence received: | - |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Brown |
| Eyes colour: | Grey |
| Visage: | - |
| Particular marks: | - |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Date of admission and term: | 6 February 1878 4 years |
| Late residence: | Longton, Staffordshire |
| Parish he belongs to: | Stoke on Trent |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Matting |
| Whether illegitimate: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | Imperfectly |
| Offence: | Stealing 38s |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | - |
| Date of sentence, by who and court: | 5 January 1878, Longton Petty Sessions, W Cooper and A Edwards |
| Where imprisoned: | Stafford |
| Sentence: | 1 month prison (hard labour), 4 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | None |
| Length: | - |
| For what: | - |
| Father's name: | Thomas Morris |
| Occupation: | Maltster |
| Mother's name: | Sarah Ann |
| Occupation: | - |
| Parents dead? | - |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Good |
| Character of parents | Good, and sober |
| Parents' wages: | 19s per week |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | 1s or 1s 6d per week |
| Parents address: | Lord Street, Woodhouse, Longton |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | - |
| Person making this return: | - |
7 January 1878 There is a report of the crime in the Staffordshire Sentinel Monday 7 January 1878 p.3 col.4: JUVENILE THIEF. -Walter Morris, aged fourteen, was charged with stealing £1 18s., the moneys of Matthew Bullock, butcher. -The prosecutor engaged the boy to carry some things to his stall in the market on Saturday morning. Prosecutor had left his coat on the stall, with bag in one of the pockets containing silver to the amount of .£1 18s., and the prisoner on seeing the bag put his hand into it, and abstracted the money. Information was given to the police, and the prisoner was shortly afterwards arrested by P.S. Harding, and it was found that he had purchased a lot of articles. -He was sent to prison for a mouth; at the expiration of that term to be sent to a reformatory for four years.
1 June 1881 Confirmed at Aston Church this day by the Bishop of Worcester
20 October 1881 Morris placed this day on licence with Mrs Handle, Bolton Gate Farm, near Longton
28 January 1882 Hear he is not doing satisfactorily
5 February 1882 Sentence expires
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