Received information from Sergeant Gibbs regarding a robbery in Widford. Enquiries were also made about a horse and cart found at High Wych.
01 Jul 1889
Enquiries made about the burglaries in Ware.
27 Jul 1889
Received information that three shirts, one apron and a pair of cord trousers had been stolen from a clothesline in an Orchard at Ford Hill, Little Hadham, property of James White. Enquiries were made throughout the neighbourhood but failed to lead to any clues.
31 Jul 1889
Made further enquiries into the robbery of shirts and trousers from 31 July 89.
03 Aug 1889
Also makes reference to missing pig – see HPF/B/20 Page 2.
6 Sep 1888
PC Smith was tasked with making enquiries in Takeley, Essex concerning a waistcoat stolen in Bishops Stortford.
10 May 1881
PC Smith liaised with PS Bacon of Essex Police at Stansted regarding a theft committed by a Charles Gilbey of Birchhanger from a William White of Birchhanger.
15 Jun 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 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 with PC 128 were tasked with making enquiries in Bishops Stortford for a strayed [unreadable] and a man wanted for horse stealing.
26 Jun 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 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 appeared at Bishops Stortford Petty Sessions held at the Corn Exchange before F Vander – Meulen and J A Houblon Magistrates with Thomas Cheer charged by Inspector Clark of the Great Eastern Railway with travelling by train from Cambridge to Bishops Stortford without a ticket and in default of payment of 25 shillings. ...
31 Oct 1881
PC Smith attended with [unreadable] Barrons Down where he made enquiries concerning a cash box found on the 5th November in some nettles in a [unreadable] field Barrons Down by James Prior bricklayer of Bells Hill Bishops Stortford and William Stock brickmaker of Barrons Down the box having been stolen on the 13th October from ...
06 Nov 1881
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 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 attended the Petty Sessions held in the Bishops Stortford Corn Exchange and before Magistrate Reverend F Vander-Meulen he gave evidence in the case of John Bush age 20 years of Bishops Stortford. He was charged with stealing a female jacket during the night of 16th February 1882 from the house of Caroline Hudgell ...
20 Feb 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 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
