• Skip to content
  • Websites in the network
  • Herts Memories
  • Herts Past Policing
  • Our Dacorum
  • Our Hatfield
  • Our Hertford and Ware
  • Our Oxhey
  • Our Stevenage
  • Our Welwyn Garden City
  • Out of Sight, Out of Mind
  • Herts Memories
  • Herts Past Policing
  • Our Dacorum
  • Our Hatfield
  • Our Hertford and Ware
  • Our Oxhey
  • Our Stevenage
  • Our Welwyn Garden City
  • Out of Sight, Out of Mind
 
  • Log in
  • About us
  • Contact us
  • Police Jargon
Herts Past Policing
Herts Past Policing
Recording life on the beat in Hertfordshire
  • Home
  • Police History
  • Crimes & Incidents
  • Document collection
  • Photos
  • Learning Resources
  • Contribute
  • Like us on Facebook
  • See our Historypin page
You are here: Home>Crimes and Incidents>Animals

Animals

Including poaching, livestock, misuse, miss treatment and strays

  • Cruelty to an animal doesn't pay
    Cruelty to an animal doesn't pay
    George Edwards, a carman, was cruel to his horse by working him whilst the horse was unfit.
    Read more
  • Dangerous driving
    Dangerous driving
    Ernest Ward (30), confectioner, of Bull Plain, Hertford, was summoned for driving a cart furiously, to the danger of passengers.
    Read more
  • Daring burglary confounds police
    Daring burglary confounds police
    A daring burglary was carried out at Buncefield Poultry Farm.
    Read more
  • Dog licences
    Dog licences
    Fred Courtnay, meat salesman, of Furneaux Pelham, was summoned for keeping a dog without a licence.
    Read more
  • Dolley, Herbert (Bertie) George, 29, Police Constable.
    Dolley, Herbert (Bertie) George, 29, Police Constable.
    Gunner 19963 48th Battery Royal Garrison Artillery died of wounds on the 25th December 1915.
    Read more
  • Don't make a habit of trespassing and stealing
    Don't make a habit of trespassing and stealing
    David Patmore, Bert Sharp, and William Jones were all caught with their pockets stuffed full of rabbits.
    Read more
  • Drunk in charge
    Drunk in charge
    Carman on the ground asleep left pair horse trolley unattended.
    Read more
  • Drunk in charge at the time of the crash
    Drunk in charge at the time of the crash
    The horse cart and the taxi collided violently, and the horse was killed. The Police Court ruled that, if the defendant was sent to the front, he would hear nothing further.
    Read more
  • Drunk in charge of a donkey
    Drunk in charge of a donkey
    Waltham Abbey resident fined 5 shillings for being drunk in charge of a donkey and costermonger's barrow.
    Read more
  • Drunk when driving
    Drunk when driving
    Drunk while in charge of a horse and carrriage
    Read more
  • Drunk, with a dog alongside
    Drunk, with a dog alongside
    John Stracey was found drunk and disorderly, Fined 5 shillings, and ordered to also pay 1 shilling for upkeep of his dog
    Read more
  • Father & son from the Herts Constabulary in the 1800s
    Father & son from the Herts Constabulary in the 1800s
    Story and photographs of father and son both of whom served in Hertfordshire Constabulary in the late 19th century. The father lived until he was 81 while the son succumbed to T.B. at the age of 32.
    Read more
  • Felony most fowl
    Felony most fowl
    Two constables broke in, and killed and attempted to steal two chickens from a publican's back yard.
    Read more
  • Ferreting about - another case dismissed
    Ferreting about - another case dismissed
    Jim Marshal, caravan dweller, summoned on suspicion of game trespass.
    Read more
  • Finding a rabbit
    Finding a rabbit
    Samuel Boswell, of Hunsdon, labourer, was charged with game trespass.
    Read more
  • Fowl play
    Fowl play
    Edward Moss Hale, an ex-police officer, was charged with stealing three turkeys and three pieces of harness, with a second count of receiving the goods knowing they were stolen.
    Read more
  • Fowl stealing at Cuffley
    Fowl stealing at Cuffley
    George William Squires, of Lower Edmonton, and Edward Leyton, of no fixed abode, were charged with stealing twenty chickens.
    Read more
  • Freeman, Alban Henry, 139, Police Constable.
    Freeman, Alban Henry, 139, Police Constable.
    Section B Reservist, Gunner 205985, Royal Horse Artillery who died from fever on the 7th March 1917.
    Read more
  • Game for the task
    Game for the task
    Oliver Clark of Whitley Road and Joseph Halsey of Burford Street were convicted of trespassing on the land of G. W. Frogley.
    Read more
  • Game trespass
    Game trespass
    Henry Wallace and James Capell, both maltsters, of Ware, were summoned at Ware Petty Sessions for game trespass.
    Read more
  • Glasscocks shop window broken by an army wagon
    Glasscocks shop window broken by an army wagon
    An army wagon ran into a horse and cart, breaking a window.
    Read more
  • Government employee drunk
    Government employee drunk
    William Barnard, of Waltham Abbey, was summoned for being drunk in charge of a pony and trap
    Read more
  • Grandad was in the Specials
    Grandad was in the Specials
    Pictures of Bishops Stortford's Specials during the Great War with Images of one of their members' John Griggs medal
    Read more
  • He stole a horse but left his own pony behind
    He stole a horse but left his own pony behind
    Alfred Dearman, 27, was charged with stealing a horse, valued at 100 guineas.
    Read more
PAGE:< Previous123456Next >
Crimes and Incidents
  • A SUMMARY OF OFFENCES FROM THE GAOL AND HOUSE OF CORRECTION CALENDAR FOR THE BOROUGH Michaelmas 1819 to Epiphany 1823
  • Bad words outside a cafe
  • Fined - Peddling without certificates
  • James Blackman Snook - Highwayman
  • Police : ' We will charge man'
  • Police hunt for Hatfield girl's attacker
  • What a sauce ! - alleged theft of bottles from goods yard
  • Animals
  • Crime Prevention
  • Drunkenness
  • Murder and Manslaughter
  • Non crime incidents
  • Offences Against Property
  • Offenders
  • Policing before the Police Force
  • Policing in WW1
  • Public order offences
  • Suicide and Cases Reported to H.M. Coroner
  • Traffic Offences
  • Violent crime
  • Welfare
  • Terms of use
  • Privacy and cookies
  • Accessibility
Designed and built by Community Sites

Copyright Hertfordshire County Council.
All rights reserved.

Hertfordshire Constabulary (opens in new window) The Stortford Museum (opens in new window) Heritage Lottery Fund (opens in new window) Hertfordshire County Council (opens in new window)