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Animals

  • 'Fowl' play
    'Fowl' play
    Warren Wilkes had been summoned for stealing a fowl.
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  • A Bad Case of Cruelty
    A Bad Case of Cruelty
    George Cole, of Blindman's Lane, Cheshunt, summoned for causing unnecessary suffering to a horse by permitting it to walk whilst in an unfit state
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  • After hours
    After hours
    John Coulson of The Bell Public House, St Andrews Street, Hertford, was summoned for permitting the sale of intoxicating liqueur and William Hart was summoned for consuming it.
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  • Another 'fowl' deed indeed
    Another 'fowl' deed indeed
    Percy Dearlove, 17, sold stolen fowls to a gullible farmer.
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  • Attempted burglary, but the two boys do not escape the law
    Attempted burglary, but the two boys do not escape the law
    William and George Pateman, aged 12 and 9, committed burglary and were found hiding in the warehouse.
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  • Cruelty to a horse
    Cruelty to a horse
    William Thurston, a travelling showman, and Moses Jones, one of his employees, were summoned for cruelty to a horse.
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  • Hertfordshire's Mounted Section
    Hertfordshire's Mounted Section
    The history of Hertfordshire Constabulary's use of horses
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  • Ill treatment
    Ill treatment
    Thomas Hawkins, a dealer, was charged with cruelly beating a pony by striking it over the head with a board. Alfred Archer, the owner of the pony, was also charged with allowing the pony to be worked whilst in an unfit condition.
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  • It's a busy road !
    It's a busy road !
    Gerard Wilfred Frogley (40) of Cherry Tree Farm, Hoddesdon, a farmer, was summoned for allowing three heifers to stray onto the highway
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  • Lack of control
    Lack of control
    William Sanders, of Old Road, Enfield Highway, was summoned for not having control over a horse and cart.
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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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  • Overloaded Horses
    Overloaded Horses
    Charles Knightley, of 19 Park Lane, Waltham Cross, was summoned for cruelty to two horses by overloading, and Percy George Box, of 1 Park Lane, Waltham Cross, was summoned for causing the cruelty.
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  • Poor pig !
    Poor pig !
    Henry Wright, of Pegs Lane, was charged with cruelty to a pig.
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  • Stampeding cavalry horses
    Stampeding cavalry horses
    Staffordshire Yeomanry horses frightened by owl go on stampede.
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  • Stampeding cavalry horses
    Stampeding cavalry horses
    On Thursday 27 August 1914 a number of horses broke loose from Great Havers Farm, Bishops Stortford and scattered in all directions
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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 boy scout spy
    The boy scout spy
    Spy stories
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  • Trap accident
    Trap accident
    Mr. Thomas Wilkins, of Sandon, was driving a horse and trap along Bancroft when the animal took fright and Mr.Wilkins and his daughter were thrown out.
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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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  • Two farmers fined
    Two farmers fined
    John Hugh Smyth, a farmer, of Guilden Morden, was fined 10s. and 15s. costs for moving a cow along the High Street at Ashwell, in contravention of the Foot & Mouth Disease Order, 1914.
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  • Very little sleep for 22 weeks
    Very little sleep for 22 weeks
    Frederick Byatt, of Flamstead End, was summoned for not having proper control of a horse and cart.
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  • Wartime farming
    Wartime farming
    How Hertfordshire helped with food production
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