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PC Joseph Smith

  • On Duty At Hatfield Agricultural Show
    On Duty At Hatfield Agricultural Show
    PC Smith was instructed to attend the Hatfield Agricultural Show with PC’s 108 and 128.
    06 Jul 1882
  • On Duty At Sawbridgeworth Fair
    On Duty At Sawbridgeworth Fair
    PC Smith was tasked with duty at the Sawbridgeworth Fair.
    24 Apr 1882
  • On Duty At The Bishops Stortford Petty Sessions
    On Duty At The Bishops Stortford Petty Sessions
    PC Smith was instructed to perform duty at the Petty Sessions held at the Corn Exchange Bishops Stortford.
    19 Jan 1882
  • On Duty At The Petty Sessions
    On Duty At The Petty Sessions
    PC Smith was detailed for duty at the Bishop Stortford Petty Sessions held at the Corn Exchange.
    10 Nov 1881
  • On Duty At The Petty Sessions
    On Duty At The Petty Sessions
    PC Smith was on duty at the Corn Exchange for the Bishops Stortford Petty Sessions.
    22 Dec 1881
  • On Duty At The Petty Sessions
    On Duty At The Petty Sessions
    PC Smith was on duty at the Petty Sessions held at the Corn Exchange Bishops Stortford. He also received his pay of £4 8s 5d.
    27 Oct 1881
  • On Duty At The Petty Sessions At Bishops Stortford
    On Duty At The Petty Sessions At Bishops Stortford
    PC Smith was on duty at the Corn Exchange Bishops Stortford for the Petty Sessions.
    08 Dec 1881
  • Pauper Destroys His Own Clothes
    Pauper Destroys His Own Clothes
    PC Smith attended the Bishops Stortford Union Workhouse and apprehended John Connor age 34 years a tramp and a pauper for destroying his own clothes. On the 30th August 1882 PC Smith attended before Reverend F Vander-Meulen Magistrate at the Petty Sessions held at Bishops Stortford Corn Exchange with prisoner James [?] Connor who was charged ...
    28 Aug 1882
  • Perform Duty At Bishops Stortford Petty Sessions
    Perform Duty At Bishops Stortford Petty Sessions
    PC Smith was instructed to perform duty at the Corn Exchange Bishops Stortford for the Petty Sessions.
    11 May 1882
  • Plain Clothes Duty In Sawbridgeworth
    Plain Clothes Duty In Sawbridgeworth
    PC Smith was instructed to wear plain clothes whilst watching vagrants in Sawbridgeworth.
    25 Jun 1882
  • Plain Clothes Observations
    Plain Clothes Observations
    PC Smith was tasked with performing duty in  plain clothes watching vagrants,
    29 May 1882
  • Prisoner Discharged
    Prisoner Discharged
    PC Smith was detailed to deal with a prisoner, John Brett, detained by PC 118 Hill on the 4th July 1882 by taking him to Albury Rectory. (Continued on next page).
    05 Jul 1882
  • Prisoner Discharged - Continued
    Prisoner Discharged - Continued
    (From previous page – PC Smith was detailed to deal with a prisoner, John Brett, detained by PC 118 Hill on the 4th July 1882 by taking him to Albury Rectory.) where he appeared before [unreadable] Bailey Magistrate [believed to be Rev. Thomas Timothy Lane Bayliff] who released him in the sum of £5 to appear ...
    05 Jul 1882
  • Prisoner Escort
    Prisoner Escort
    PC Smith was ordered to take a prisoner Thomas Hudgel, who was charged with a felony, to St Albans Prison.
    31 Dec 1881
  • Prisoner Escort
    Prisoner Escort
    PC Smith was tasked with escorting a prisoner [name missing] of Albury to Cambridge Gaol having been sentenced at Much Hadham Petty Sessions to one month’s hard labour for assaulting Alice [name missing] 9 years of Albury.
    11 Aug 1882
  • Prisoner Escort To Cambridge Gaol
    Prisoner Escort To Cambridge Gaol
    PC Smith was instructed to convey a prisoner to Cambridge Gaol possibly by the name of Claude Smith.
    18 Jul 1881
  • Prisoner Escort To Cambridge Gaol
    Prisoner Escort To Cambridge Gaol
    PC Smith was on duty at the Petty Sessions held in the Corn Exchange Bishops Stortford and was tasked with escorting by rail two prisoners, James Snelling and Charles Chisworth, who had been charged by PC 54 with soliciting alms in Bishops Stortford on the 21st June and committed to Cambridge Gaol for 21 days.
    22 Jun 1882
  • Prisoner Escort To Cambridge Gaol
    Prisoner Escort To Cambridge Gaol
    Most of this entry is sadly unreadable but having been to the Bishops Stortford Petty Sessions earlier on this afternoon PC Smith was tasked with escorting prisoners to Cambridge Gaol. Two names are legible – William Hutchin and John England  – but other than an offence occurred in High Wych and the prisoners were sentenced ...
    02 Jun 1881
  • Prisoner Escort To St Albans
    Prisoner Escort To St Albans
    PC Smith was tasked with escorting a prison, Henry Gillet of Little Hadham, to St Albans Gaol.
    15 Mar 1882
  • Prisoner Fetched From Prison For Trial
    Prisoner Fetched From Prison For Trial
    PC Smith attended Cambridge to collect prisoner James Gurford a chimney sweep charged with being drunk and riotous in High Street Bishops Stortford on Thursday 24th August 1882. Gave evidence against him at the Petty Sessions held at the Corn Exchange in Bishops Stortford and he was sentenced to [?] days with hard labour at ...
    31 Aug 1882
  • Publican Assaults Wife
    Publican Assaults Wife
    PC Smith attended the Bishops Stortford Petty Sessions at the Corn Exchange where he gave evidence before magistrate Reverend F Vander-Meulen in the case against Richard Prior Landlord of the Wheatsheaf Beer House Rye Street Bishops Stortford who was charged with violently assaulting his wife and threatening to “bash her brains out” on the 6th ...
    07 Feb 1882
  • Robbery - Offenders At The Petty Sessions
    Robbery - Offenders At The Petty Sessions
    PC Smith attends the Bishops Stortford Petty Sessions at the Corn Exchange before Magistrate Reverend F Vander-Meulen with two defendants Michael Almond and John Sygrove who were charged with committing a robbery upon William and George Warwick of Farnham Essex. They were ordered to stand trial at the Hertford Assizes.
    15 Dec 1881
  • Robbery Suspected
    Robbery Suspected
    PC Smith was tasked with making enquiries in [Walkers] Lane Farnham Essex concerning a robbery which occurred on the High Road between Farnham and Bishops Stortford. He conferred with his own colleagues, PC’s 20, 54 and 108 and Essex PC 101.
    11 Dec 1881
  • Robbery Suspected - Continued
    Robbery Suspected - Continued
    Continued from previous page: The following are the injured parties – William Warwick and George Warwick aged 15 and 16 labourers of Farnham. The description of some stolen clothing is then given, also a purse containing two sixpences and some coppers and finally four fowls of common breed and mixed colours are said to also ...
    11 Dec 1881
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