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Non crime incidents

  • Fire at Wallfield House : Police bungle call to Fire Service
    Fire at Wallfield House : Police bungle call to Fire Service
    In the early hours of Thursday 7 June a fire broke out at Wallfields House, Hertford.
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  • Firemen and Police rescue 11-year-old from well
    Firemen and Police rescue 11-year-old from well
    Child rescued from bottom of 40 foot disused well.
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  • Fit at the Fiddle
    Fit at the Fiddle
    A man was lying seriously ill by the side of the road near the Fiddle siding.
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  • Flooding in the Lea Valley, 1968
    Flooding in the Lea Valley, 1968
    Photos of the flooding of the Lea valley in September 1968. Local Officers had to use their initiative to deal with the problems.
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  • Four men enlist
    Four men enlist
    Harry Cooledge, Stephen Matthews, and Thomas Taylor, all of Essendon, and William Francis and Joseph Francis, of Howe Green, Little Berkhamstead, were summoned for gaming with cards.
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  • Gambling on a Sunday
    Gambling on a Sunday
    Harry Cooledge, Stephen Matthews, and Thomas Taylor, of Essendon, and William and Joseph Francis, of Howe Green, were summoned for gambling with cards.
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  • Games people play - gamblers caught playing on the public highway
    Games people play - gamblers caught playing on the public highway
    Thomas Ansell, William Trundell and William Andrews were caught gambling on the public highway.
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  • Gaming with cards
    Gaming with cards
    Herbert Draper, Sidney Harris, and Arthur Smith, all lads residing at Potter's Heath, pleaded guilty to a charge of gaming with cards.
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  • It certainly went with a bang
    It certainly went with a bang
    A terrific explosion shook Hemel Hempstead and Apsley causing much damage, and three local brigades turned out to fight the ensuing fire.
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  • Jack the Ripper in Harpenden
    Jack the Ripper in Harpenden
    Jack the Ripper left London and attended Harpenden for a few days before mysteriously disapearing.
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  • Judge on commendable absence of crime
    Judge on commendable absence of crime
    A lean year for crime.
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  • Keeping open licensed premises
    Keeping open licensed premises
    John William Smalley, of the Salisbury Crest Inn, Essendon, was summoned for keeping open his licensed premises to a member of His Majesty's forces after the hour of 9 p.m..
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  • Kindness indeed
    Kindness indeed
    Gordon thanked the magistrates for his three months sentence
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  • Monkeying around ?
    Monkeying around ?
    Chimpanzee & Koala Bear prints could be confused with humans.
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  • Needham, Derek, Police Constable.
    Needham, Derek, Police Constable.
    A police patrol car driver was cleared of a charge of driving without due care and attention.
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  • Not a suffragette
    Not a suffragette
    Some excitement was occasioned in the early hours of Monday morning, when the police were informed that a suffragette had been found inside the Old Town Hall
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  • Nothing to brag about - card-Playing by youths on Sunday
    Nothing to brag about - card-Playing by youths on Sunday
    A group of young men were charged with playing cards on a footpath in Green Lanes, Ware, on August 19th.
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  • Obstructing the highway
    Obstructing the highway
    John Wright, 37, of the Folly, and William Lawrence, 29, of 4 Davies Street, greengrocers, were summoned for obstructing the highway.
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  • Obstructing the highway
    Obstructing the highway
    Edgar Monk, Edward Hardy, Henry Smith, Victor Slater and Frank Garley, lads, admitted obstructing the free passage of the highway.
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  • Obstructing the police
    Obstructing the police
    William H. Hopkins, 63 Railway Street, was summoned for obstructing the police whilst in the execution of their duty.
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  • Obstructing the police
    Obstructing the police
    Herbert Street, labourer, of Railway Street, was charged with obstructing the police.
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  • Obstruction by traders
    Obstruction by traders
    Pathway blocked by traders
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  • Pay the school fees as required
    Pay the school fees as required
    George Hart had an Order made against him for not paying fees due to the Industrial Schools that his children attended
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  • Play your cards right  - playing cards on Sunday
    Play your cards right - playing cards on Sunday
    Men summoned for gaming with cards on a public footpath.
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