| No. in Admissions Register: | 299 |
| Date of admission: | 2 May 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: | Dark grey |
| 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: | Large birthmark above right seat?? |
| Cutaneous disorder? | No |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | No |
| Subject to fits? | No |
| Age last birthday: | 15 |
| Illegitimate? | - |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | - |
| Has resided: | Birmingham |
| Parish he belongs to: | Birmingham |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Brass caster |
| Schools attended: | - |
| By whom and where employed: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | Imperfectly |
| Cyphers: | - |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | Stealing one cwt [hundredweight] of coal |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | - |
| Date of sentence: | 12 April 1865 |
| Where convicted: | Moor Street |
| Who prosecuted: | - |
| Where imprisoned: | - |
| Sentence: | 21 days, 4 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals and convictions: | Stealing 10 lbs of bacon (October 1862) |
| Father's name: | Thomas Hickin (stepfather) |
| Occupation: | Saddler |
| Residence: | 7 court Woodcock Street, Birmingham |
| Mother's name: | Anna Maria Hickion |
| Occupation: | Dressmaker |
| Residence: | - |
| Father's character: | - |
| Mother's character: | - |
| Parents dead? | Own father |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Good |
| Character of parents | - |
| Parents' wages: | About 20s per week |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | Considered able to pay 9d a week |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | G Glossop |
| 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: | - |
27 October 1862 There was a report of his previous offence in the Birmingham Daily Gazette Monday 27 October 1862 p.3 col.4: A YOUNG SCAMP.- William Griffith. 14, caster, living with his mother in No. 7 Court, Woodcock Street, was charged with stealing a piece of bacon from the shop of Mrs. Harriet Pearson, 284, Great Lister Street. It appeared that Mrs. Pearson saw him running away with the bacon in his hand on the previous afternoon, and ran after and caught him. The prisoner acknowledged his guilt, and said he had taken the bacon because he was hungry.-His mother, who was in Court, said that prisoner had a comfortable home to go to, but that he was a very bad boy.-He was sent to the House of Correction for three months.
13 April 1865 There is a report of the crime in the Birmingham Daily Gazette Thursday 13 April 1865 p.6 col.5: STEALING COAL - William Griffiths, brass caster, residing in 7 court, Woodcock Street, and Henry Hewson, gun implement maker, residing at 26, Hill Street, were charged with stealing about 4 cwt. of coal from a boat, the property of Samuel Lowe, licensed victualler, Miles Street. Hewson was, in consequence of having on all previous occasions borne a good character, discharged. Griffiths was sent to the house of correction for twenty-one days; at the expiration of that period to be sent to a reformatory for four years.
24 May 1867 Licensed to work at brass founding
10 December 1867 Committed to Sessions for stealing two shirts
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