| No. in Admissions Register: | 698 |
| Age: | 11 |
| Whence received: | H M Prison Derby |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Light brown |
| Eyes colour: | Brown |
| Visage: | Oval |
| Particular marks: | Nil |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Date of admission: | 2 May 1882 |
| Late residence: | Codnor, Derbyshire |
| Parish he belongs to: | Heanor, Derbyshire |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Schoolboy |
| Whether illegitimate: | No |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | Imperfectly |
| Offence: | Larceny |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Neglect of parental care |
| Date of sentence, by whom and court: | 3 April 1882; R S W Sitwell and J Huish;; Heanor |
| Where imprisoned: | Derby Prison |
| Sentence: | 1 month in prison, 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | 1 |
| Length: | Ordered to be given 6 strokes with rod |
| For what: | Larceny |
| Father's name: | Thomas Hicking |
| Occupation: | Collier |
| Mother's name: | - |
| Occupation: | - |
| Parents dead? | Mother, when the boy was 6 months old |
| Survivor married again? | No |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Generally good |
| Character of parents | Believed to be honest, sober, and industriious. Good health |
| Parents' wages: | From 16s to 20s per week |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | The father states that he is willing to contribute 2s per week |
| Parents address: | Thomas Hicking, Cross Lane, Codnor, Derbyshire |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | Superintendent Hancock, Langley Mill, near Nottingham |
| Person making this return: | J Hancock, Langley Mill, near Nottingham |
14 February 1882 There is a report of the previous offence in the Nottingham Evening Post Tuesday 14 February 1882 p.4 col.5: A BAD BEGINNING. - A little lad, named William Hicking, was charged with stealing a pork pie, the property of Mr. Fowkes, shopkeeper, at Codnor, on the 1st inst. It was alleged the prosecution that the prisoner came into the shop with a youth named Kirk, who asked for some beer. While the prosecutor had gone to fetch it prisoner ran out of the shop, and he then missed the pie from the window. Kirk was spoken to, and he ran after the prisoner, and in a short time after he returned with the pie. The matter was then placed in the hands of the police, and on the boy being apprehended by P.c. Tate he admitted the theft. Sir John Alleyne said the magistrates did not desire to send one so young to prison, and they therefore ordered him to be detained during the day and to receive six strokes of the birch rod.
6 April 1882 The crime that sent him to Saltley is briefly reported in the Derbyshire Advertiser and Journal Thursday 6 April 1882 p.6 col.2: Wm. Hicking, 11 years age, and Frank Brown, 12 years of age, were charged with stealing two fowls, the property of Charles Woolley, at Wood Lincoln, near Codnor, on the 8th of January. - Hicking had been previously convicted, and was ordered to be imprisoned for one month, and then sent to a reformatory for five years; Brown to receive nine strokes with a birch rod.
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