PC Smith was instructed by DCC Ryder to warn William and George Warwick to attend the Corn Exchange Bishops Stortford to give evidence at the Petty Sessions on the 15th December 1881. He also spoke with PC 101 Brighton of Essex Police.
14 Dec 1881
PC Smith was tasked with serving a Summons in Essex.
09 May 1881
PC Smith over a period of days served notices on the licensees of public houses regarding the renewal of their licences on the 31st August 1882 at the Corn Exchange Bishops Stortford – On 9th August – Ellen Carter Green Man PH Thorley On 10th August – W, Cowell (William Cowell Railway Inn Station Road Bishops Stortford ...
09 Aug 1882
PC Smith attended Green Street Little Hadham conferring with PC 94 giving him a summons to serve upon a William Hawks Mumford a grocer of Furneaux Pelham.
15 Nov 1881
PC Smith personally served a summons on (Charles – from 1881 census Ed.) Southward age 45 a moulder of Bishops Stortford for assaulting on 24th August 1882 a Police Officer in the execution of his duty.
26 Aug 1882
PC Smith personally served a summons on William Livermore of Bishops Stortford for an offence of illtreating a horse by working it in an unfit state.
29 April 1882
PC Smith was tasked with serving summonses in Saffron Walden on two men, both Theatrical Performers, George Gore aged 26 and Thomas [Mac Sagan] aged 31 – continued on next page.
15 Aug 1882
Continued from previous page – the summons was in relation to an offence against a Sarah Agnes Barker of Bishops Stortford on the 14th August 1882.
15 Aug 1882
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 was tasked with taking a bay pony to the Divisional Headquarters at Hertford.
07 Nov 1881
PC Smith was tasked with performing unspecified Special Duty at the Rye House, travelling there by train. From numerous advertisements for cheap train fares published in newspapers on the 5th June 1881, throughout London and the southeast, it would appear that the house and gardens were opened to the public requiring a Police presence Ed.
06 Jun 1881
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 made enquiries in Hockerill in company with PC 20 concerning the theft of scarfs from the Linendraper shop of a Mrs Beard in South Street Bishops Stortford.
22 Oct 1881
PC Smith was instructed to make enquiries regarding the theft of a pair of [cordoria] trousers from outside the clothing shop of a Warren Glover of South Street Bishops Stortford at 5.15 pm on the 3rd December 1881.
03 Dec 1881
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
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 ...
08 Nov 1881
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 was tasked with making enquiries in Takeley, Essex concerning a waistcoat stolen in Bishops Stortford.
10 May 1881
