| No. in Admissions Register: | 394 |
| Date of admission: | 3 February 1869 |
| Whence received: | Stafford Gaol |
| By whom brought: | - |
| On what terms: | - |
| Friends interested in him: | - |
| Description: | |
| Height: | - |
| Figure: | - |
| Complexion: | Light |
| Hair colour: | Brown |
| Eyes colour: | Blue |
| Perfect vision? | - |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Sound intellect? | Yes |
| Use of all limbs? | Yes |
| Had cow or small pox? | Cowpox |
| Particular marks: | Burn mark left arm and chest |
| Cutaneous disorder? | No |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | No |
| Subject to fits? | No |
| Age last birthday: | 14 |
| Illegitimate? | - |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | - |
| Has resided: | Ipstones, Staffordshire |
| Parish he belongs to: | Ipstones |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Collier |
| Schools attended: | - |
| By whom and where employed: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Not at all |
| Writes: | Not at all |
| Cyphers: | - |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | Stealing a hammer |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Neglect by mother and stepfather |
| Date of sentence: | 20 January 1869 |
| Where convicted: | Leek Petty Sessions |
| Who prosecuted: | - |
| Where imprisoned: | - |
| Sentence: | 14 days prison (hard labour), 3 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals and convictions: | None |
| Father's name: | John Mycock (stepfather) |
| Occupation: | Sawyer |
| Residence: | Ipstones, near Cheadle, Staffordshire |
| Mother's name: | Hannah Mycock |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | - |
| Father's character: | Drunken |
| Mother's character: | - |
| Parents dead? | No |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Very bad |
| Character of parents | - |
| Parents' wages: | 4s a day when at work |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | Stepfather declines to pay anything – says he cannot |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | C Williams, Leek |
| Relatives to communicate with: | - |
| Person making this return: | - |
| Estimate of character on admission: | - |
| Character on discharge: | - |
| When and how left the Reformatory: | - |
23 January 1869 There is a short report of the crime in the Staffordshire Advertiser Saturday 23 January 1869 p.7 col.4: LARCENY.- Thomas Mycock. alias Weaver, was brought up on remand, charged with stealing a hammer, value 6d., the property of Ralph Redfern. of Ipstones. The case was remanded from Thursday last, for the purpose of making inquiries as to the lad's being placed in a reformatory, and a satisfactory answer had in the meantime been received. The boy pleaded guilty, and was committed to prison for fourteen days, with hard labour, and then ordered to be sent to the Saltley Reformatory School, near Birmingham, for three years.
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