A police journal of the 1840's 4
Checking on 'wicket gearls'
The daily notes of the work of a police constable in Montgomery in the 1840s reveal the close attention paid to local people who are judged to be of dubious character. The extract below, with delightful phrasing, is from a surviving Police Journal and concerns the investigation of a local robbery.
County Archives
M/SOC/7/42
This extract, from January 18th 1844, reads as follows:
"I went to Llanymynech to acquaint Mr May the Constable
of Mr Leece Shop which had being Robed [robbed] he is
a man well acquanted with all the Boat Men. I called on Mr Baugh
Carreghofa Locks. I receved information that a man of that discription had
gon throught the Locks on the eving [evening] as the Robery
was commited the name of the Suspected person David Davis or
Die [Dai] of the Gats [Gates]. he lives in Rhewabon
he has to [two] Sisters with him foling [following]
the Boat they are wicket Gearls [wicked girls] and of
a loose Carterer [character] thaire fathar lives in Rhewabon"
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