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Suspected Arsonist
From: Officer's Journal; PC Joseph Smith
PC Smith was tasked with making enquiries in Bishops Stortford town and neighbourhood for a 16 year old boy called Walter Taylor a hawker of children’s nursery rhyme books who was suspected of setting fire to a wheat and barley stack at 8 am on the 8th November at Sawbridgeworth the property of William Pool farmer residing at Sawbridgeworth.
Date of creation
08 Nov 1881Reference number
HPF/B/19/026/3People involved in incident
Walter TaylorWilliam Pool farmer, Sawbridgeworth
DCC Ryder, Bishops Stortford
Police officer
PC Joseph Smith (106)
Towns and villages
Sawbridgeworth (206)
Type of incident
Criminal Damage (62)
