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Animals

Including poaching, livestock, misuse, miss treatment and strays

  • Hertford carmen fined
    Hertford carmen fined
    Four carmen in the employ of the Hertford Brewery were summoned for leaving their horses and carts unattended on the highway at Stevenage.
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  • Hertfordshire Police Dog Officers
    Hertfordshire Police Dog Officers
    Officers shown are Len Little, Clive Knapp, Joanne Yates
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  • Horse and cart left unattended
    Horse and cart left unattended
    William Marks, of Watford, was fined 10 shillings, including costs, for leaving a horse and cart unattended.
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  • Horse injured in the street
    Horse injured in the street
    On Tuesday the 19th of December 1916,  P.C. Eames received a message at 1.15 p.m. from Superintendent Sullivan which instructed him to attend an incident at London Road, where a horse had fallen down near the entrance of the Railway Station. When he arrived he found a horse, which was owned by Clifford Herbert Andrews ...
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  • Horse rears up and unseats his rider
    Horse rears up and unseats his rider
    At about 3.15 p.m. P.C. Springett was on duty at Bridge Inn crossroads, when a soldier riding his horse along South Street approached the crossroads. His horse then became spooked, and reared up sending the rider flying backwards and the horse ended up falling on him. He was examined on site by Major Henderson and ...
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  • Horse stealing at Hitchin
    Horse stealing at Hitchin
    Henry John Bullard, 35, labourer, pleaded not guilty to an indictment for stealing a bay gelding.
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  • Housebreaking at Much Hadham
    Housebreaking at Much Hadham
    William Henry Frederick Johnson (29), labourer, was charged with breaking and entering at Much Hadham and stealing a dead fowl and other articles and 3 shillings in money.
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  • Hussey, William Henry, 306, Police Constable.
    Hussey, William Henry, 306, Police Constable.
    P.C. William Henry Hussey joined the Royal Horse artillery during World War One; ‘The Great War’. Taken Prisoner Of War on the 30th November 1917 during the Battle of Cambrai. Taken to Dulmen prison camp in Germany.
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  • Ill treatment
    Ill treatment
    Thomas Hawkins, a dealer, was charged with cruelly beating a pony by striking it over the head with a board. Alfred Archer, the owner of the pony, was also charged with allowing the pony to be worked whilst in an unfit condition.
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  • Ill treatment, or not ?
    Ill treatment, or not ?
    Frank Brand, a timber handler, of the Lamb and Flag, Colliers End, was summoned for failing to notify a case of parasitic mange.
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  • It's just cruelty !
    It's just cruelty !
    George Turpin (16) was fined a guinea for cruel treatment to his horse.
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  • It's those Foxes again
    It's those Foxes again
    The 'Stevenage twins', Albert Ebenezer Fox and Ebenezer Albert Fox, were together charged with stealing eight fowls
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  • Italian organ grinder found guilty of cruelty to a donkey
    Italian organ grinder found guilty of cruelty to a donkey
    John Rosademora, an organ grinder, was charged with causing cruelty and ill-treatment to a donkey by working it whilst it was in an unfit condition
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  • Jepps Farm history
    Jepps Farm history
    “Henry Reed, a noted butcher of 15 Castle Street, Hertford, reported that he had, for the Christmas trade, received the choicest pigs, geese, ducks, fowls and rabbits, but also 320 turkeys from different suppliers, one of whom was Mr Brooks of Jepps Farm.”
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  • Keeping a dog without a licence
    Keeping a dog without a licence
    Lizzie Caine (47), of Bury Green, Little Hadham, was summoned for keeping a dog without a licence.
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  • Keeping a dog without a licence
    Keeping a dog without a licence
    Aaron White (52), labourer, of Little Hadham, was charged with keeping a dog without having taken out a licence.
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  • Keeping dogs without a licence
    Keeping dogs without a licence
    John Harvey (35), engine driver, of Hatfield, was summoned for keeping a dog without a licence.
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  • Killing a duck
    Killing a duck
    Two lads, Eric N. Reed and Percy Brown, of Walkern, were charged with maiming a tame duck.
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  • Larceny of fowls
    Larceny of fowls
    Samuel George Draper, of Bennington, was summoned for stealing two fowls.
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  • Leading a bull without a pole
    Leading a bull without a pole
    Ernest Ashby, of Digswell, summoned for leading a bull without a pole at Welwyn.
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  • Letting cattle run wild in Hertford is not a good thing !
    Letting cattle run wild in Hertford is not a good thing !
    Edward Welch did not manage to prevent his "rather wild" cattle from running up Fore Street, Church Lane, and Bell Lane. He was fined accordingly.
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  • Like a headless chicken !
    Like a headless chicken !
    Frederick Charles Hughes, 35, of Kilburn, an omnibus conductor, was charged with feloniously stealing two fowls.
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  • Man injured by pony and trap
    Man injured by pony and trap
    William Usborne, a malt maker of Newpath, Bishop's Stortford was knocked down by a pony and trap.
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  • Monkeying around ?
    Monkeying around ?
    Chimpanzee & Koala Bear prints could be confused with humans.
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