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Non crime incidents

  • Playing pitch and toss
    Playing pitch and toss
    Arthur Woodard, George Lowin, and Lewis Clark, all of Flamstead End, were summoned for playing pitch and toss in Park Lane, Chestnut.
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  • Police and fire brigade save the bacon - disaster averted when alarming fire breaks out in Hertford
    Police and fire brigade save the bacon - disaster averted when alarming fire breaks out in Hertford
    An alarming fire broke out on Tuesday 12 September 1900 on the back premises of Messrs’ Westrope and Sons, Greengrocers of Market Place, Hertford.
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  • Police machine will teach children road sense
    Police machine will teach children road sense
    Safe cycling aid
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  • Police pensioner dies aged 92
    Police pensioner dies aged 92
    ' Goodbye Old Friend '
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  • Police told about stone throwing. New Parish Council member
    Police told about stone throwing. New Parish Council member
    Telephone kiosk being damaged by stones.
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  • Royalty Visits Watford
    Royalty Visits Watford
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  • Selling beer during prohibited hours
    Selling beer during prohibited hours
    Brown Bacon, of 'The Plough' beerhouse, Flamstead End, Cheshunt, was summoned for selling intoxicationg liquor during prohibited hours.
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  • Selling intoxicating liquor to a child
    Selling intoxicating liquor to a child
    John Wetmore, of the Old Highway Tavern, Rye Park, was summoned for selling intoxicating liquor in an unsealed vessel to a child under 14 years of age, and Margaret Hammond, of Rye Park, was summoned for sending the child for the liquor.
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  • The general strike - praise for police
    The general strike - praise for police
    The Hertford Borough Sessions were held on Thursday before the Mayor (Alderman A. P. Ginn ), Alderman W. Graveson, and Messrs A. S. Gilbertson and W. Burgess.
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  • The general strike - tribute to the police
    The general strike - tribute to the police
    Police praised for their 'their courage, tact and wonderful restraint.'
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  • The plane was more fragile than the pilot !
    The plane was more fragile than the pilot !
    Lieutenant Duncan nose-dived his plane, but lived to tell the tale!
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  • The Watford hotel robbery - a clean slate
    The Watford hotel robbery - a clean slate
    Jury disagreed on case of burglary and receiving stolen goods.
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  • They started young !
    They started young !
    Mrs Mary Logsdale, from Hoddesdon, was summoned for selling cigarettes to a child.
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  • They're all a bunch of rats
    They're all a bunch of rats
    The rats just kept eating the food growing on his allotment - there was a financial reward for rat tails.
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  • To be or not to be (a traveller) - that is the question
    To be or not to be (a traveller) - that is the question
    David Miles, landlord of the Spread Eagle Inn, Amwell End, Ware, was charged with keeping his premises open during prohibited hours.
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  • Travelling on the GNR without a ticket
    Travelling on the GNR without a ticket
    Stuart Allen, of London, was charged with travelling on the Great Northern Railway from Dunstable to Hatfield without paying for his fare.
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  • Trespassing
    Trespassing
    Herbert Deards, of Woolmer Green, was charged with trespassing but did not appear in Court.
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  • Trumped again !
    Trumped again !
    James Turner, of Holloway, and Harry Broughton, of King's Cross, were charged with unlawfully playing a game of chance, ie the 3-card trick.
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  • Under age ?
    Under age ?
    Harry Duncombe, of the Boar and Castle Public House, New Town, Hatfield, was summoned for selling beer to a child under the age of 14.
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  • Upson down
    Upson down
    Charles Upson injured when his bike brake didn't work.
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  • Use of photograph in police work in 1864
    Use of photograph in police work in 1864
    In June 1864 an elegantly dressed lady using the name "Amelia Allen" attended a social event in Aylesbury and was arrested for picking pockets. Her portrait was taken by Thomas Vipond.
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  • Was he a spy ?
    Was he a spy ?
    On the 25th April 1915, Albert Patrick of the Liberal Club, Bishop’s Stortford, reported that about 5.30 p.m. whilst walking along the Hallingbury Road, near Garden Fields, he saw a man loitering, looking towards the railway line.
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  • What a treat !
    What a treat !
    William Carden, licensee of the Coach and Horses Public House, Bushey Heath, was charged under the Liquor Control Order, namely allowing treating.
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  • What an inducement !
    What an inducement !
    In a case brought by a moneylender for recovery of money lent, Mr Justice Lawrence said: “This prejudice against moneylenders is ridiculous.  Either they ought to be abolished or they ought to be treated as human beings.  I can see no evidence that any inducement had been held out to the defendant to borrow, except ...
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