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Offences Against Property

  • Schoolboy's remarkable escapades
    Schoolboy's remarkable escapades
    Herbert Warman, aged 9, appeared before Magistrates on a charge of larceny for the second time.
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  • Sent for trowel : a black sheep
    Sent for trowel : a black sheep
    John Wilson (40), metal turner, was indicted for, and pleaded guilty to, stealing four brick trowels and a pair of pincers, together of the value of 6s.6d., the property of Ernest Peck, of St.Albans, on or about June 3rd.
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  • Serious charge against Hoddesdon men
    Serious charge against Hoddesdon men
    Christopher Parker was charged with stealing a bushel of mixed corn and James Huttlestone was charged with receiving the same, well knowing it to have been stolen.
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  • Servant charged with theft
    Servant charged with theft
    Mary Sybil Ratcliff, Clement's Cottages, Brickendon, a domestic servant, was summoned for stealing money and gloves.
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  • Serving time - theft of a clock at Ware
    Serving time - theft of a clock at Ware
    Jeremiah Shay, 47, labourer, was indicted for stealing a clock.
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  • Setting fire to a stack of hay
    Setting fire to a stack of hay
    Bertie Carter, aged 8 years, of Digswell House Lodge, was charged with setting fire to a stack of hay.
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  • SHIRLEY , 12, IS A 'COURAGEOUS LITTLE GIRL'
    SHIRLEY , 12, IS A 'COURAGEOUS LITTLE GIRL'
    Dramatic escape from house through window
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  • Shoplifting at St Albans
    Shoplifting at St Albans
    Annie Elizabeth Coles (32), polisher, from Birmingham, pleaded guilty to stealing a pair of knickers.
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  • Shot fired at railway coach ?
    Shot fired at railway coach ?
    Damage caused to window of railway coach containing retired army officer.
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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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  • Sleight of hand !
    Sleight of hand !
    Lewis Hills (65), of Albury Ride, Cheshunt, was charged with stealing a tin of potted tongue and a jar of turkey tongue.
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  • Smart capture by police - Hatfield court story
    Smart capture by police - Hatfield court story
    Two men from London charged with breaking and entering a shop in Welwyn.
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  • Smart capture of alleged bicycle thieves by the police
    Smart capture of alleged bicycle thieves by the police
    Two youths stole two bikes from Cambridge, but their attempt to sell them was inept.
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  • Soldier charged with stealing a bicycle
    Soldier charged with stealing a bicycle
    Gunner Albert Peverell, of the 3/4th East Anglian Brigade, R.F.A., was charged with stealing a bicycle, valued at £10, the property of Sergt. Lindell, of the Herts. Yeomanry.
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  • Soldier charged with theft
    Soldier charged with theft
    Joshua Cooper, a gunner in the 2nd/6th London Brigade, R.F.A.,was charged with stealing a sum of about £20 from the Y.M.C.A. tent at Much Hadham
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  • Soldier convicted of theft
    Soldier convicted of theft
    Joshua Cooper (21), a gunner in the 2nd/6th London R.F.A., stationed at Much Hadham, was charged with stealing about £20, the property of the Y.M.C.A., at Much Hadham,
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  • Soldier deserter charged with theft
    Soldier deserter charged with theft
    Deserting soldier stole a coat.
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  • Soldier steals motor-bicycles
    Soldier steals motor-bicycles
    Harold Nutt (18), motor driver, pleaded guilty to stealing a motor-bicycle.
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  • Soldiers home on leave
    Soldiers home on leave
    Private William Dell, a soldier stationed in Bishop's Stortford admitted stealing 12 shillings belonging to Mr James Dixon of South Street .
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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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  • Soldiers march off with stolen pipes
    Soldiers march off with stolen pipes
    Arthur Coombes and William Bailey were charged with the theft of two Meerschaum pipes worth 3 shillings each from Barnet tobacconist William Henry Graty.
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  • Sounds fishy - shop breaking at Hertford
    Sounds fishy - shop breaking at Hertford
    George Dunnage, 26, labourer, of Hertford, pleaded not guilty of feloniously breaking and entering a fishmonger's and stealing a quantity of fried fish and a fish tray.
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  • St Albans county sessions
    St Albans county sessions
    Cases of theft and drunkenness
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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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