| No. in Admissions Register: | 353 |
| Date of admission: | 6 June 1867 |
| Whence received: | Stafford |
| By whom brought: | - |
| On what terms: | - |
| Friends interested in him: | - |
| Description: | |
| Height: | - |
| Figure: | - |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Brown |
| Eyes colour: | Brown |
| 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: | - |
| Cutaneous disorder? | No |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | Not apparent |
| Subject to fits? | No |
| Age last birthday: | 11 |
| Illegitimate? | - |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | - |
| Has resided: | Stourbridge |
| Parish he belongs to: | Stourbridge |
| Customary work and mode of life: | At a glebe hearth |
| Schools attended: | St John's, Stourbridge |
| By whom and where employed: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | Imperfectly |
| Cyphers: | - |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | Stealing a pair of spectacles |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | - |
| Date of sentence: | 6 May 1867 |
| Where convicted: | Wordsley before W Matthews and J Holcroft |
| Who prosecuted: | - |
| Where imprisoned: | - |
| Sentence: | 1 month prison, 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals and convictions: | None |
| Father's name: | John Hall |
| Occupation: | Bricklayer |
| Residence: | Church Street, Stourbridge |
| Mother's name: | - |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | - |
| Father's character: | - |
| Mother's character: | - |
| Parents dead? | Mother |
| Survivor married again? | Not |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Bad |
| Character of parents | Honest, sober, health good |
| Parents' wages: | 22s per week |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | 1s per week |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | W Freeman Stourbridge |
| Relatives to communicate with: | - |
| Person making this return: | - |
| Estimate of character on admission: | - |
| Character on discharge: | - |
| When and how left the Reformatory: | - |
11 May 1867 There is a report of the crime in the County Advertiser and Herald for Staffordshire and Worcestershire Saturday 11 May 1867 p.7 col.2: LARCENY BY A BOY.-On Monday, at the Police Court, before Messrs. Wm. Mathews and J. Holcroft, Thomas Hall, a poor neglected boy, was charged with stealing a pair of spectacles and five shillings in copper, belonging to Henry Norris. Norris, as it appeared from the evidence, is employed at Stourbridge Iron Works. After he was paid on Saturday night, he put his money, among which were two packets of copper, each containing 5s., in his jacket, which was hanging in a hovel. Shortly afterwards he missed one of the packets of copper and his spectacles. The latter he found in the possession of the prisoner, who, however, denied all knowledge of the former. The boy was sentenced to one month's imprisonment, and on the conclusion of that period to five years' detention in a Reformatory.
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