Indecency Towards Children

At 6.30 pm on the 1st April 1882 PC Smith was informed by Deputy Chief Constable Ryder that at 5.30 pm a man had been exposing his person to young children in Green Lane Bishops Stortford. At 7.30 pm the same day he also learnt from Sergeant Bacon of Essex Police that a man of the same description had been indecently assaulting young children at Birchanger Essex at 2.30 pm. In both cases the offender was described as being 30 years old, 5 feet 9 inches tall, slight build, fair complexion, sandy hair, mutton chop whiskers and moustache, wearing a black frock coat, dark trousers, white turned down collar and a black pot hat. He had been seen hawking small round faced clocks