| No. in Admissions Register: | 673 |
| Age: | 14 |
| Whence received: | H M Prison Derby |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Dark bron |
| Eyes colour: | Grey |
| Visage: | Round |
| Particular marks: | Large scar back of left hand; 3rd finger left hand ... [cannot read rest] |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Date of admission: | 27 July 1881 |
| Late residence: | Brook Bottom, Harpur Hill, Buxton |
| Parish he belongs to: | Hartington Upper Quarter |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Farm labouring |
| Whether illegitimate: | Born in wedlock |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | Imperfectly |
| Offence: | Larceny of a watch and other jewelry |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Bad associates |
| Date of sentence, by whom and court: | 16 July; R Darwin, H Cooke, and H A Hubbersly |
| Where imprisoned: | Derby Prison |
| Sentence: | 10 days hard labour in prison, 3 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | None |
| Length: | - |
| For what: | - |
| Father's name: | John Pickering |
| Occupation: | Farm labourer |
| Mother's name: | Harriet Pickering |
| Occupation: | - |
| Parents dead? | No |
| Survivor married again? | No |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Good |
| Character of parents | Very good. Sober and healthy man |
| Parents' wages: | 18s per week |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | The father John Pickering, having a large family depending upon him is not able to pay more than 1s per week |
| Parents address: | Brook Bottom, Harpur Hill, near Buxton, Derbyshire |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | Sperintendent Hallayne, Constabulary of Police, Chapel en le Frith, near Stockport |
| Person making this return: |
20 July 1881 There is a report of the crime in the Buxton Herald 20 July 1881 p.3 col.8: CHARGE OF STEALING JEWELLERY, ETC. John Pickering 14, son of Mr. John Pickering, Harpur Hill, on remand, was brought up charged with stealing during the last three months two silver watches, two silver guards, one gold-plated guard, ten watch keys, a knife, cricket ball, &c., the property of Mr. E. H. Hulley, of Spring Gardens, Buxton, the proprietor of Anzani's Bazaar. - Mrs. Hulley said; On the 8th of July I went down to the shop at half-past seven o'clock in the morning. After I had been there half-an-hour, our boy came to open the shop and he' brought the prisoner with him. Our boy opened the door and began to take down the shutters, when the prisoner went across to a glass case and took out the albert chain now produced. I seized him by the collar and asked him for the other goods that I had missed- He said he had not taken anything else. I then asked him to turn out his pockets, and I took from him the plated albert guard, half-a-dozen watch keys, a knife, and cork screw. I then asked him about the watches - four - which were missing. He said he had not taken them. The watch now produced I identify as my property. It was not sold by us. The value of the guards, watch, and other things now produced amount to £5. - Chas. Wood said : l am an apprentice with Mr. Flint, draper, of Buxton. I know the prisoner, who has been Mr. Flint's farm boy. I was coming up Spring Gardens one Friday night when the prisoner crossed the road and came up to me and asked me whether I would have watch out on hire, 2d. a week. I said "Yes, would." I gave him the 2d., and he said he knew lad that had this watch and he would go to him and pay him the 2d., and bring him the watch. He did so, and the watch now produced is the same. I kept the watch about three days, and then I gave it to Mr. Flint after the prisoner had been locked up. I also got this silver chain from him under similar circumstances. - The prisoner pleaded guilty, and the Bench committed him to prison for 10 days and to a reformatory afterwards for three years.
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