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Animals

Including poaching, livestock, misuse, miss treatment and strays

  • Riding asleep - petty sessions
    Riding asleep - petty sessions
    Harry Homewood, of 2 East Street, Ware, pleaded guilty to being asleep and without a light whilst in charge of a horse and cart in Watton Road at 1.40 a.m. on Friday, December 21st.
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  • Riding asleep at Much Hadham
    Riding asleep at Much Hadham
    William Gunn (36), labourer, of Little Hadham, was summoned for riding asleep.
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  • Riding while asleep
    Riding while asleep
    Percival A Roberts was summoned for riding asleep
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  • Sad death of a Walkern boy
    Sad death of a Walkern boy
    Report into the death of a ten year old.
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  • Shaggy dog story -keeping a dog without a licence
    Shaggy dog story -keeping a dog without a licence
    Henry Bush, of Hill Farm, Colliers End, was summoned for keeping a dog without a licence.
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  • Simply quackers - alleged detention of a duck
    Simply quackers - alleged detention of a duck
    Fredrick Eve, of Waltham Common Lock, was summoned by George Platten, landlord of the Jolly Bargeman, near Cheshunt Wharf, for detaining a duck.
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  • Soldiers in trouble
    Soldiers in trouble
    Sam Quarterman and Alfred Harber, privates, were charged with stealing four hens.
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  • Special constable fined
    Special constable fined
    Sydney Harry Thompson, stud-groom, of London Road, Bishop's Stortford, was summoned at Harlow on Saturday for killing a pheasant without a licence at Little Hallingbury, on October 15.
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  • St Albans tradesman charged
    St Albans tradesman charged
    Charles Addington (49), restaurant proprietor, of St. Albans, was indicted with receiving three fowls, the property of Mrs Susan Tuck, on February 15, knowing them to have been stolen. George Young (78), labourer was charged with stealing the three fowls referred to,
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  • Stampeding cavalry horses
    Stampeding cavalry horses
    Staffordshire Yeomanry horses frightened by owl go on stampede.
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  • Stealing turkeys
    Stealing turkeys
    George Townsend, of North Mymms, and Edward Edwards, of Stapleford, were charged with stealing two turkeys.
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  • Straying horses
    Straying horses
    Samuel Silverman, of Wallace's Yard, Trinity Marsh Lane, Cheshunt, was summoned for allowing two horses to stray.
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  • Swine fever !
    Swine fever !
    George Worbey, of Baldock, was convicted of failing to keep a register of sows upon which he had carried out operations, contrary to the 1911 Swine Fever Order.
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  • That bulldog
    That bulldog
    Herbert Searle, a bandsman in the Hertfordshire Regiment, billeted in Chambers Street, was summoned for keeping a dog without a licence.
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  • The barrow boy
    The barrow boy
    Tom Jones (23), a carman, was indicted with feloniously stealing a pony, a set of harness, and a barrow.
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  • The bird got the 'bullet'
    The bird got the 'bullet'
    John Martin of the Folly, Hertford, was charged with trespassing in pursuit of game, on December 17th, on the Bayfordbury estate.
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  • The candle burnt out
    The candle burnt out
    Charles Cook ( 22), a labourer, of Ware Road, Hoddesdon, was summoned for driving a cart without a light.
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  • The case of the missing ferret
    The case of the missing ferret
    Private Emmerson was summoned for stealing ferrets, one of which had a bald head and a ball of clay on its head!
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  • The game is up !
    The game is up !
    George Sewell of Duke Street, Hoddesdon, and Joseph Halsey of Burford Street, Hoddesdon, were summoned for trespassing, on 20th February, in search of game.
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  • The horse, cart, car, motorbike, train and a dog
    The horse, cart, car, motorbike, train and a dog
    This is a gem of a story from a General Occurrence Book
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  • The Stevenage twins in trouble again
    The Stevenage twins in trouble again
    Albert Ebenezer Fox and Ebenezer Albert Fox, the notorious Stevenage twins, were charged with stealing six fowls
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  • The stolen horse belonged to Mr Pigg!
    The stolen horse belonged to Mr Pigg!
    William Sale, a soldier, pleaded guilty to stealing a horse, a trap, and a harness, but the army were prepared to give him a good character reference.
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  • Theft from Wormley butcher's shop - part 2
    Theft from Wormley butcher's shop - part 2
    Alfred Lee, 18, labourer, Alfred Hunt, 25, stoker, and John Aldridge, 20, labourer, were indicted for stealing a piece of beef and two rabbits
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  • Theft of a sporting gun
    Theft of a sporting gun
    William Ernest Edward Smith, of Goffs Oak, labourer, was charged on remand with night poaching.
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