| No. in Admissions Register: | 437 |
| Age: | 15 |
| Whence received: | Stafford County Prison |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | Pale |
| Hair colour: | Light brown |
| Eyes colour: | Grey |
| Visage: | - |
| Particular marks: | Moles on right forearm |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Date of admission and term: | 1 December 1870 3 years |
| Late residence: | Hanley |
| Parish he belongs to: | Stoke upon Trent |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Baking |
| Whether illegitimate: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | Imperfectly |
| Offence: | Embezzling money |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | - |
| Date of sentence, by who and court: | 1 November 1870, Hanley Petty Sessions, W H Yates and J Stephenson |
| Where imprisoned: | Stafford |
| Sentence: | 1 month prison (hard labour), 3 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | None |
| Length: | - |
| For what: | - |
| Father's name: | Samuel Picken |
| Occupation: | Soldier |
| Mother's name: | - |
| Occupation: | - |
| Parents dead? | Mother |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Boy been in workhouse 7 years |
| Character of parents | - |
| Parents' wages: | - |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | - |
| Parents address: | - |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | - |
| Person making this return: | - |
29 October 1870 There is a report of the crime in the Staffordshire Sentinel and Commercial and General Advertiser Saturday 29 October 1870 p.5 col.1: EMBEZZLEMENT BY A BAKER'S BOY.-At the Borough Police Court, yesterday, before J. Stephenson, Esq., mayor, and W. H. Yates, Esq , John Picken, a boy about fifteen, who had been employed by J. Rochell, baker. Tontine Street, was charged with having appropriated several sums of money, which had received from his employer. He had been engaged in June, and was in the habit of taking bread out to customers and receiving the money. On the 17th he was sent to Mrs. Proudlove's with an account for £1 14s., but came back and said she wanted it to stand over for another week. On the same day he went to another place in Bucknall-road, for a debt of £2 5s . and brought back word that he was to call again in the middle of the week, and on the 24th he was sent to Mrs. Winter's, for 5s. 6d., and reported that she would soon come and pay. It was speedily found that Mrs, Proudlove and Mrs. Winter had paid respectively £1 7s. 7d. and 5s. 6d., and that defendant had also received the £2 ; whereupon information was given to the police, and Picken was apprehended in the town P.S. Jones. The case having been clearly proved, the Bench intended at first to commit the defendant to prison for one month and have him afterwards sent to a reformatory, but as they did not sit that day for hearing cases under the new Criminal Act, they deferred a formal sentence until Tuesday.
28 February 1875 Called at the school. Is doing well and employed at the Midland Hotel
21 October 1876 There is a report of another crime in Aris;s Birmingham Gazette Saturday 21 October 1876 p.7 col.6: A REPENTANT THIEF.- John Picken (19), no fixed residence, was charged with embezzling the sum of £3 10s., the moneys of his master, Mr. Joseph Hillman, The Stores, New Street. -It appeared that prisoner had been in the employment of the prosecutor for about, three months in the capacity of waiter. On the 15th of last month a barmaid entrusted him with five sovereigns to get change, He returned shortly afterward with 30s. worth of coppers, and said he would get the remainder shortly, He went away and was not seen again until Thursday night, when he gave himself up voluntarily to Police-constable Green. He said he had spent all the money, and had just come back from Lichfield.- In answer to the Bench, prisoner said he had been in the Reformatory at Saltley, and had not long come out. -He was sentenced to three months' imprisonment with hard labour.
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