PC Smith served Summons for non-payment of Rates on the following Arthur Westley, William Hitch, William Phipp and Elizabeth Phipp all of Bishops Stortford. Also on the following day on Joseph Bull, John Marshall and William Thompson all also of Bishops Stortford.
20 May 1882
PC Smith received information of a robbery at the Drapers shop of Joseph Crisp in Bishops Stortford. He then immediately went to the home of John Bush [Planters] Wood Bishops Stortford whose children were suspected of committing the offence. On searching the house in the mothers bedroom he located a number of suspected stolen articles ...
08 Feb 1882
PC Smith listed everything that he found in the box. Mrs Bush stated that her children had brought the items home on different occasions. PC Smith took the items and showed them to Mr Crisp who identified them as being his property however, he declined to support a prosecution.
08 Feb 1882
PC Smith in company with Sergeant Hill made enquiries in the Bishops Stortford and Hockcliffe district regarding a stolen chestnut horse 15 hands with a white face – stolen on the 31st August 1882.
01 Sep 1882
PC Smith received a report of a stolen bay mare 14 hands together with a harness from a stable in Hunsdon during the night of the 25 July 1882 and made enquiries in Bishops Stortford.
26 Jul 1882
PC Smith in company with PC 90 were making enquiries regarding a whitewash brush stolen from Sawbridgeworth Railway Station.
08 June 1882
PC Smith was sent to make enquiries in Bishops Stortford and Hockcliffe regarding 6 pieces of Elm supposedly stolen between 8 pm 18th April 1882 and 6 am 19th April 1882 from [unreadable} Meadows the property of W Paynes of Bridge Street, Bishops Stortford, but without success.
19 Apr 1882
PC Smith was sent to Sawbridgeworth to make enquiries about a strayed dog.
26 Apr 1882
PC Smith served a summons on David Newman of Bishops Stortford for refusing to quit the Anchor PH when asked to by both the landlord George Fearn and PC 54 Charles Boutell on the 15th July 1882.
18 July 1882
Daily log of incidents reported at Bishop’s Stortford Police Station, ranging from lost and found items to reports of accidents and crimes. Follow-up actions are also recorded. Formerly Acc 2744/4/4
11 Aug 1902 - 27 Apr 190
PC Smith took a report of the theft from a field of 2 cast iron wheels and a plough harness the property of William Waylett of Hockerill. He later made enquiries to trace the property.
27 Mar 1882
PC Smith went to see a Fanny Hudgell, a single woman, of Birchanger Green who complained that during the night of the 17th February 1882 she had a jacket stolen from her house. PC Smith then went to the house of a Charles Turner in Bishops Stortford and recovered the jacket. Turner said that his ...
17 Feb 1882
PC Smith was on duty in Hockerill where he conferred with PC 20 and DCC Ryder and received information concerning a piece o beef weighing 1 lb 3oz value 1 shilling being stolen.
10 Mar 1882
PC Smith was informed about the theft of piece of beef from a van whilst it was in London Road between Sawbridgeworth and Harlow. A suspect was named as William Cowland age 24 years of Sawbridgeworth by his employer Samuel Herbert Johnson of Bishops Stortford. Another man was seen to be in charge of a ...
10 Mar 1882
PC Smith was on duty in North Street Bishops Stortford when he apprehended Charles Kelgour, a tramp, for begging alms. The following day he attended the Corn Exchange Bishops Stortford for the Petty Sessions and before Magistrate Reverend F Vander-Meulen the case against Kelgour was heard. He was sentenced to 14 days in Cambridge Prison.
23 Jun 1882
PC Smith attended the Petty Sessions at Bishops Stortford Corn Exchange – continued on next page.
02 Sep 1882
PC Smith attended before the Reverend F Vander-Meulen Magistrate with George Fuller of Bishops Stortford charged with deserting his wife and children. He was committed to Cambridge Prison for 14 days hard labour.
02 Sep 1882
PC Smith, with colleagues, was involved in Weights and Measures testing in Bishops Stortford over the next few days. (There were no Trading Standards Officers at this time and the responsibility for the checking for accuracy of the local traders scales etc lay with the Police Ed).
07 Jul 1882
PC Smith appeared before F Vander-Meulen Magistrate at the Petty Sessions held at the Corn Exchange Bishops Stortford regarding James Lyns a prisoner charged with assaulting and beating his wife on the 15th July 1882. He was remanded until the next Petty Sessions on the 20th July.
17 July 1882
