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Animals

Including poaching, livestock, misuse, miss treatment and strays

  • More boys in trouble
    More boys in trouble
    Edward Albert Rogers (13), Charles E. Rogers (11), of Little Horse Lane, William George Irons (9), Herbert Franklin (10), and Thomas Nunn (8), Crib Street, were charged with cruelly ill-treating cows.
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  • Much ado about Hadham
    Much ado about Hadham
    George Wood, of Sawbridgeworth, was summoned for assaulting William Webb, of Perry Green, Much Hadham.
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  • Mule takes flight after dog bites soldier
    Mule takes flight after dog bites soldier
    Dog bites soldier, sending mule running.
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  • No dog licence
    No dog licence
    George W. Draper, of Woolmer Green, pleaded guilty to keeping a dog without a licence.
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  • No dog licence
    No dog licence
    Frederick Jones, of Queen’s Road, Waltham Cross, was summoned for keeping a dog without a licence.
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  • No dog licences
    No dog licences
    William Page, of 75 High Oak Road, Ware, and George Pakes, of 2 New Road, Ware were summoned for keeping dogs without a licence.
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  • No lights
    No lights
    James Brown, hay carter, of Little Hadham, was summoned for having no lights on his cart.
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  • No lights
    No lights
    Ernest Martin, of Amwell Street, Hoddeson, was summoned for driving a horse and cart without a light.
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  • No red light
    No red light
    James Howard, of White Hall Street, Tottenham, was fined 5 shillings for driving a horse and cart without displaying a red rear light on the cart.
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  • No sleep for two days
    No sleep for two days
    Walter Mansfield, of Flamstead End, summoned for not having proper control of two horses and wagon.
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  • No zeppelins in Hoddesdon
    No zeppelins in Hoddesdon
    John Walker (35), of no fixed abode, was summoned for driving a horse and cart without a light.
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  • Notable Events In Week One
    Notable Events In Week One
    Hertfordshire Police Historical Society. This Week In History. 1/1/1948 A total of 1,017 crimes were reported in “C” Division for 1947, of which 415 were detected. 1/1/1967 A Drugs Squad was formed on 1st January 1967, with a strength of one Detective Sergeant, one Detective Constable and one Woman Detective Constable, They will be based at Headquarters. 26 persons were prosecuted ...
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  • Obstructing the highway
    Obstructing the highway
    Edward Mascall and William Gunn, carters, of Hunsdon, were summoned for obstructing the highway at Hadham Cross, Much Hadham.
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  • Offence Against Swine Fever Order
    Offence Against Swine Fever Order
    Thomas Tyler, of 'The Plough' public-house, Datchworth, was summoned for a contravention of the Movement of Swine Order.
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  • Out for a duck - theft of ducks - petty sessions
    Out for a duck - theft of ducks - petty sessions
    Homeless William Cannon was charged with stealing two ducks from an outhouse at Cheshunt. When charged, he was pleased with the prospect of spending Christmas in prison.
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  • P.C. Springett's journal
    P.C. Springett's journal
    This daybook, the second Constable’s Journal to be stabilised for digitisation, covers sixteen months during the later part of WW1, from June 1917 to October 1918.
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  • Pepper, Walter, 145, Police Constable.
    Pepper, Walter, 145, Police Constable.
    Private L8220 1st East Surrey Regiment, Lance Corporal P/13932 Military Mounted Police who was Killed in Action on the 29th June 1918.
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  • Petty sessions - highway offence
    Petty sessions - highway offence
    Jacob Paternoster, of Whempstead, did not appear to answer summonses for riding asleep and without a light whilst in charge of a horse and cart.
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  • Poached eggs at Standon
    Poached eggs at Standon
    George Green, late of Colliers End, was charged under the Poaching Prevention Act with being in possession of game eggs.
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  • Poaching for a living
    Poaching for a living
    William Ernest Edward Smith of Goffs Oak, was summoned for assaulting a boy and wilfully wounding a pigeon.
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  • Policeman injured by runaway horse
    Policeman injured by runaway horse
    PC Wright tried to stop a horse drawing a van which had bolted but was knocked against the wall.
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  • Rabbits and warrens
    Rabbits and warrens
    Edward Aldridge, John Warren, and George Warren, labourers, Aston, were charged with game trespass at Aston on August 27th.
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  • Rats, perhaps, but who'd be a sparrow ?
    Rats, perhaps, but who'd be a sparrow ?
    The police were awarded large sums of money for exterminating "vermin".
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  • Reckless driving - who are the offenders ?
    Reckless driving - who are the offenders ?
    A directive was received from Captain Archer, 2/2 London Division, that cases had been reported of soldiers driving recklessly, galloping their horses up the hill, putting the public at great risk of injury.
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