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AP Wolf
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Apwolf
Post Number: 3033
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 03, 2006 - 1:36 pm: | 
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I am trying to find more information on this gentleman of the Metropolitan police force who battered a completely innocent woman twice in the space of a few minutes, and spat in her face between the violent assaults.
The Police Orders Site of the Met records an exceptional error when any search is performed on this gentleman; and although I have been able to ascertain that he was disciplined for the offence, I have not found his punishment, or subsequent career in the Met.
Any help greatly appreciated.
The assault took place in January of 1881. |
Robert Charles Linford
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Robert
Post Number: 5499
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 04, 2006 - 1:32 pm: |
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AP, I imagine the search engine's nervous breakdown was due to the apostrophe, though omitting it doesn't improve matters. The earliest 153X I found was 1891, I think. There are one or two prisoners and loonies in the census. The only thing I could find was a PC John O'Hara, age 43 in 1901 living in Fulham.
Robert |
AP Wolf
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Apwolf
Post Number: 3039
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 04, 2006 - 5:39 pm: |
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Yes, Robert the apostrophe probably did it.
Anyways I've extended the search now, because I find there was a group of such officers involved in such assaults, and they usually played stooge for one another in court.
As well as O'Hara, there was Thomas Sharp, 406T, and the brilliantly named PC Whisker 708T - though he is also referenced as 705T - and the whole gang were up in court every so often, and usually got away with it, that is until they picked on a lady whose husband just happened to work for the Public Record Office.
They got hammered for that, and I like to think that when we source the PRO today then this poor chap's efforts in recording such detail was not in vain.
This lot of cops were a wicked bunch. |
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