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On The Trail Part 1: A Robbery is Commited

It is March 1878. Your name is Sergeant Steward. You are a member of the Huntingdon police force.
The landlady of a public house in the town has called in one of your constables because a customer has been robbed. PC Wilson has taken the details but now needs your help to identify the culprit.

Your first task is to put together a description of the thief using information from PC Wilson, the landlady (Mrs Adele Rose) and the person robbed (John Perry).

You will need each of their statements.

Use information from those statements to fill in as much as possible under the following headings. Some pieces of information may be easy to find. For others you may have to work out an answer from clues in the descriptions. There may be some pieces of information that you cannot find at all.

Information about the thief:

Name:
Age:
Hair colour:
Eye colour:
Complexion:
Address:
Married or single:
Trade:
Height:
Identifying marks:

Put a star by the parts of the description that you think are most reliable.