| No. in Admissions Register: | 371 |
| Date of admission: | 30 December 1867 |
| Whence received: | Birmingham |
| By whom brought: | - |
| On what terms: | - |
| Friends interested in him: | - |
| Description: | |
| Height: | - |
| Figure: | - |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Sandy |
| Eyes colour: | 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: | Mole on neck |
| Cutaneous disorder? | No |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | No |
| Subject to fits? | No |
| Age last birthday: | 13 |
| Illegitimate? | - |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | - |
| Has resided: | Birmingham |
| Parish he belongs to: | Birmingham |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Tube maker |
| Schools attended: | - |
| By whom and where employed: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | A little |
| Writes: | A little |
| Cyphers: | - |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | Stealing a wooden bowl and 6s 10d |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | - |
| Date of sentence: | 10 November 1867 |
| Where convicted: | Birmingham |
| Who prosecuted: | - |
| Where imprisoned: | - |
| Sentence: | 6 weeks prison (hard labour), 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals and convictions: | One |
| Father's name: | Thomas Taggart |
| Occupation: | Watchman |
| Residence: | 9 Provident Place, Lower Essex Street, Birmingham |
| Mother's name: | Dead |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | - |
| Father's character: | - |
| Mother's character: | - |
| Parents dead? | - |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Good |
| Character of parents | - |
| Parents' wages: | 15s per week and pension of 7s per week |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | 1s per week |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | - |
| 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: | - |
23 November 1867 There is a short report of the crime in the Birmingham Journal Saturday 23 November 1867 p.2 col.3: ROBBERY FROM A TILL.- Edward Taggart (13), 9, Lower Essex Street, and William Beard (16), Thorpe Street, were charged with stealing 6s. 10d. from a till belonging to Mr. Henry Stokes, butcher, No. 1, Hope Street. On Monday the prisoner Taggart was caught in the act of taking wooden bowl, containing 6s. 10d. from prosecutor's till. Beard, who was outside the shop door waiting for Taggart, made his escape, but was afterwards caught and locked up with the other. Taggart was sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment, and at the end of that time to be sent to a reformatory school for five years. Beard was sentenced to three months' imprisonment.
17 May 1869 Sent to Queen's Hospital with scarlet fever
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