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Offences Against Property

  • Burglary At Great Wymondley
    Burglary At Great Wymondley
    John Collins, 28, labourer, was charged with burglariously breaking into a house.
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  • Burglary at Much Hadham
    Burglary at Much Hadham
    William Henry Frederick Johnson (29), a labourer, of Takeley, Essex, was charged with burglariously entering the Hoops beer-house, Perry Green, Much Hadham.
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  • Burglary At Watford
    Burglary At Watford
    George Dodd, 25 and John Watts, 25, labourers, pleaded guilty to a charge of burglary at Watford.
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  • Can a bee be homeless ?
    Can a bee be homeless ?
    Stephen Barker of Buntingford, was charged with stealing the top of a beehive, and 3 dummy tops.
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  • Causing wilful damage doesn't pay
    Causing wilful damage doesn't pay
    Arthur Archer and Arthur Giblenn, both teenagers, were guilty of causing malicious damage.
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  • Charge against a Belgian dismissed
    Charge against a Belgian dismissed
    Jean Van Hoof (49), a Belgian, was indicted for setting fire to a stack of wheat straw, a stack of clover hay, and two stacks of clover.
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  • Charge of pocket-picking
    Charge of pocket-picking
    Ellen Glyn, 34, was convicted of stealing two purses, value 1s. 6d. and about 10 shillings in cash.
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  • Charge of stealing harness
    Charge of stealing harness
    Harkless Smith, of no fixed abode, was charged with stealing a set of brass-mounted harness, of which he was the bailee.
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  • Charged with being on enclosed premises
    Charged with being on enclosed premises
    William Harmer, of Hoddesdon, was charged with being on enclosed premises supposed for an unlawful purpose.
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  • Cheshunt contractor convicted of theft
    Cheshunt contractor convicted of theft
    Alfred John Rainer (60), Oliver White (45), and Albert Hawkes (44), all of Cheshunt, were charged with stealing and receiving coke.
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  • Child offenders
    Child offenders
    Lawrence Dempsey (14), Dennis Dempsey (12), and Charles Wyman (11), were charged with stealing growing apples.
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  • Children Stealing Food
    Children Stealing Food
    Food theft, even by children, was taken seriously by the police
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  • Children stealing pears
    Children stealing pears
    Leonard and John Saggers, aged 11 and 9 years respectively, of Wellington Street, pleaded guilty to the theft of growing pears.
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  • Children's court - three find mice
    Children's court - three find mice
    Three Ware boys were summoned for trespassing.
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  • Chips!!
    Chips!!
    Mary Ann Clark (38) and Emma Wheeler (46), both of Wormley, were charged with stealing a quantity of wood.
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  • Clamping down - thefts from clamps
    Clamping down - thefts from clamps
    Mrs Emily Napper, of Hatfield Hyde, pleaded guilty to stealing swedes.
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  • Convicted for damaging holly trees on countess' estate
    Convicted for damaging holly trees on countess' estate
    Peter Plumb, of St John Street, Hertford, was summoned for the malicious damage to holly trees.
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  • Corn stealing case - licensed victualler convicted of receiving
    Corn stealing case - licensed victualler convicted of receiving
    George Robert Martin, landlord of the Great Northern tavern, Cowbridge, was charged with receiving corn, knowing it to have been stolen.
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  • County crime report shows rise in shopbreaking offences
    County crime report shows rise in shopbreaking offences
    Variation in crime figures
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  • Criminal business
    Criminal business
    John Hillyard, 46, surrendered to his bail on a charge of obtaining goods by false pretence from various persons, via letters sent through the post.
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  • Curious story of public-house theft
    Curious story of public-house theft
    Ernest Williams (28), James Beaton Rowland (31), of Albert Road, Waltham New Town and George William Cutmore (47), of Cheshunt, were charged with stealing £2 from a till at the Moulders Arms, Eleanor Cross Road.
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  • Cutlery stolen
    Cutlery stolen
    Minnie Maud Wheeler and John Reed were charged with stealing eleven forks and other property.
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  • Cycle of offending - theft of bicycle at Rickmansworth and elsewhere
    Cycle of offending - theft of bicycle at Rickmansworth and elsewhere
    John Shepherd, painter, pleaded guilty to stealing a bicycle.
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  • Cycle of offending - Welwyn
    Cycle of offending - Welwyn
    Alfred Hales, of no fixed abode, was arrested at Mr Herbert Camfield's cycle shop in High Street. on suspicion of stealing a bicycle.
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