| No. in Admissions Register: | 318 |
| Date of admission: | 30 October 1865 |
| Whence received: | Stafford |
| By whom brought: | - |
| On what terms: | - |
| Friends interested in him: | - |
| Description: | |
| Height: | - |
| Figure: | - |
| Complexion: | Pale |
| Hair colour: | Light brown |
| Eyes colour: | Blue |
| 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: | Scar on right eyebrow |
| Cutaneous disorder? | No |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | No |
| Subject to fits? | No |
| Age last birthday: | 13 |
| Illegitimate? | - |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | - |
| Has resided: | Burslem |
| Parish he belongs to: | Burslem |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Potter |
| Schools attended: | Newton Reformatory |
| By whom and where employed: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | Imperfectly |
| Cyphers: | - |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | Stealing money |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Bad company |
| Date of sentence: | 16 October 1865 |
| Where convicted: | Stafford Quarter Sessions, Lord Lichfield chairman |
| Who prosecuted: | - |
| Where imprisoned: | - |
| Sentence: | 14 days prison (hard labour), 3 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals and convictions: | One: 21 days and 5 years at Newton Reformatory |
| Father's name: | Henry Taylor |
| Occupation: | Potter |
| Residence: | Club Buildings, Burslem |
| Mother's name: | Sarah Taylor |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | - |
| Father's character: | Honest and sober |
| Mother's character: | - |
| Parents dead? | Neither |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Good |
| Character of parents | Health bad |
| Parents' wages: | 12s a week |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | Not known |
| 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: | - |
21 October 1865 There is a report of the crime in the Staffordshire Advertiser Saturday 21 October 1865 p.7 col.2: JUVENILE OFFENDERS AT HANLEY. GEORGE BENNETT, 12, crate maker, JOHN SHERRATT, 13, potter, and MOSES TAYLOR, 14, potter, were charged with having stolen a half-crown, the money of James Knight, Hanley. - Taylor pleaded guilty. The other prisoners were defended by MR BRINDLEY. Mr DAVENPORT conducted the prosecution. - The prosecutor is a tobacconist in Hope Street, Hanley. On the 6th of October, Taylor went into the shop and took the half-crown from the till, the other prisoners watching outside. Their movements were observed, and when they rasn away they were pursued by Ann Greatbach, one of the prosecutor's neighbours, who caught Sherratt. The other prisoners were afterwards apprehended Sherratt and Bennett accused Taylor of having taken the money, and he did not deny it. Sherratt and Bennett were acquitted. Taylor was ordered to be imprisoned for three months and to be sent to a reformatory for three years.
10 September 1866 Absconded. Brought back next morning
28 September 1868 Absconded
June 1870 At Burslem. Doubtful [character]
January 1871 In prison
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