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Giving Evidence At Court
PC Smith records that he conferred with Deputy Chief Constable Ryder and then attended Bishops Stortford Petty Sessions where he gave evidence against [unreadable] who was charged with assaulting PC 117 [unreadable] and was sentenced to [unreadable] with hard labour.
19 May 1881
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 ...
01 Apr 1882
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
Wife Beater At Petty Sessions
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

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