Description: Manuscript notebook of Police Constable John Kilburn while serving in the Hull Constabulary, 1849-1858. 140pp, with brass clasp. Split largely into two distinct sections, with a few pages of later cash accounts. John Kilburn was appointed to the Kingston upon Hull Constabulary as Police Constable No. 33 in 1847, less than a decade after the creation of the Hull Police force. The first part of Kilburn's notebook (72pp.) contains a register of stolen property cases, mixing an inventory of items reported as stolen with the circumstances of theft and an occasional physical description of the suspect, beginning in March and running through October, 1849. John Collins alias John Smith 22 years of age 5 ft 6 high light complexion round Oval face sound features blue eyes. Light hair and small light Whiskers. Genteel appearance cut over the eye. The second section is Kilburn's personal record (64pp.) of his own testimony in court from 1849 through 1858, typically where he had served as the arresting officer. Many are highly descriptive narrative accounts, with Kilburn detailing his investigative procedure as well as the crime itself, and providing detailed personal insight into the early practices of urban policing, relying on informants, inventories of stolen goods, searching for and obtaining evidence, and using physical profiles as well as clothing as markers for witness identification, many of these being recently developed and formalized in as both urban areas and poverty grew during the early stages of the Industrial Revolution. On Wednesday the 24th of September 1851 from information received I appreheded the Prioner Alfred Simpson in is Mothers house I charged him with entering Mr. Hardys Surgery on Monday night the 22nd instant he said I was never near Mr. Hardys Surgery on Monday night I know nothing about it. I searched the house and found a knife in his dinner basket which corisponds with the marks on a box which was broken open I then took him to the Station house Committed on the 24th Prosecuter Samuel Hardy wittness George Harrison Charles Edward Finch Tried October 10th 1851 Sentance 15 months to hard labour At the end of each account he records the verdict and the punishment, which range from three months hard labor to ten years of penal transportation, with the convicts being among the last generation of those transported to Australia. On Thursday the 26th of Febuary [1852] at 11 P.M. I whent with P.C. 127 Jackson to the Prisoner Robert Coupass house in Collier Street. We charged him with stealing a quantity of Pork from shop of Edward Freeman in Witham. He said I know nothing bout any pork. I searched the house I found a pan in the oven with sum pork fat in it then too him to the station house I afterward returned to the prisoner house and searched the privy and I found a quantity of pork tied up in a piece of print covered over with ashes under the privey seat quite fresh the same I produce. Committed 27th Feby witness Edward Freeman Eben Jackson P.C. 127 Jackson P.C. 33 Kilburn Sentance Transported 10 years
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