| No. in Admissions Register: | 346 |
| Date of admission: | 29 December 1866 |
| Whence received: | Stafford Gaol |
| By whom brought: | - |
| On what terms: | - |
| Friends interested in him: | - |
| Description: | |
| Height: | - |
| Figure: | - |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Light brown |
| Eyes colour: | Hazel |
| 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: | Cut on right eyebrow; blue scar top of nose |
| Cutaneous disorder? | No |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | No |
| Subject to fits? | No |
| Age last birthday: | 11 |
| Illegitimate? | - |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | - |
| Has resided: | Hanley |
| Parish he belongs to: | Stoke on Trent |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Turning potter's jagger |
| Schools attended: | - |
| By whom and where employed: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Nil |
| Writes: | Nil |
| Cyphers: | - |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | Stealing socks |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Keeping bad company and previous offences not being punished |
| Date of sentence: | 29 November 1866 |
| Where convicted: | Hanley Petty Sessions before W S Roden |
| Who prosecuted: | Stafford |
| Where imprisoned: | - |
| Sentence: | 1 month prison, 3 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals and convictions: | - |
| Father's name: | Edward John Harris |
| Occupation: | Engine fitter |
| Residence: | 18 Windmill Street, Hanley |
| Mother's name: | Sophie Harris |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | - |
| Father's character: | Honest but drunken |
| Mother's character: | - |
| Parents dead? | No |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Good |
| Character of parents | - |
| Parents' wages: | 30s to 34s weekly |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | Such reasonable sums as they may be ordered to pay |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | Robert J Baker, Hanley |
| Relatives to communicate with: | - |
| Person making this return: | R Stevenson, Clerk to Justices, Hanley |
| Estimate of character on admission: | - |
| Character on discharge: | - |
| When and how left the Reformatory: | - |
1 December 1866 There is a report of the crime in the Staffordshire Advertiser Saturday 1 December 1866 p.7 col.5: A YOUNG INCORRIGIBLE.-Leonard Harris, a little boy only 12 years of age. was charged with stealing three pairs of socks, the property of William Booth, in the Covered Market, on Wednesday afternoon. The charge having been proved, and it having been communicated to the Bench that the defendant had already been convicted stealing a donkey, he was committed to prison for a month, with an order that the end of that time he be sent to a reformatory for four years.
29 December 1869 Discharged
December 1870 Doing well at Hanley
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