A 70 year old German Tailor is remanded in custody prior to a recommendation for deportation
Read more As the war started, suspicion of foreigners, particularly Belgians and Germans, began to be reported in the local newspapers.
Read more German parachutist spy arrested and executed.
Read more At Bow Street Police Court on Friday, Henry Sonnet, 56, a German gardener of Old Cross, Hertford, was sentenced to a month's imprisonment for travelling more than five miles from his registered address without permit.
Read more From the Guard Occurrence Book it seems the war had little impact (apart from the “spy” scare) on a small Herts town where life seemed to “go on as usual”.
Read more These details are from two Home Office circulars to county police chiefs in England regarding the threat posed by undercover German spies, 10 June and 6 July 1916.
Read more Ongong concerns about the German Farm Colony at Libury Hall detention camp at Munden, why it was being guarded by the local police force rather than the military authorities
Read more 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.
Read more James Capel, of Havelock Cottages, Railway Street, Hertford, was summoned for assaulting James Kelf.
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