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Offences Against Property

  • Damaged silver birch trees : prison for three months
    Damaged silver birch trees : prison for three months
    Carpenter pleads guilty to damaging trees
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  • Damaging a chestnut tree
    Damaging a chestnut tree
    Wllliam Humberstone and Walter Parfect of Amwell Street, Hoddesdon, were charged with doing wilful damage to a chestnut tree.
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  • Damaging a police rug
    Damaging a police rug
    Man charged with being drunk and disorderly, using obscene language and to wilful damage.
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  • Damaging growing crops
    Damaging growing crops
    George Barker (12) , of the Crooked Billet, Ware, was charged with damaging growing wheat.
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  • Daring burglary confounds police
    Daring burglary confounds police
    A daring burglary was carried out at Buncefield Poultry Farm.
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  • Daring jewel robbery - The George, Bishop's Stortford
    Daring jewel robbery - The George, Bishop's Stortford
    There was a daring jewel robbery at the George Hotel.
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  • Daring robbery at Cheshunt
    Daring robbery at Cheshunt
    Mr A.C. Driver, newsagent and stationer, of Crossbrook Street, Cheshunt, was attacked in his house by two men, bound with ropes, and robbed of about £14.
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  • Daring theft in Watford
    Daring theft in Watford
    The Railway Tavern in Watford, kept by Mr H Robertson, was the scene of a daring theft.
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  • Does a farthing in damages constitute a worthwhile claim?
    Does a farthing in damages constitute a worthwhile claim?
    Mr Allison alleged that his gardener had damaged his sprouts and his strawberry bed, but the gardener argued otherwise - he said that he was following instructions.
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  • Don't fight for your bag of coal
    Don't fight for your bag of coal
    Frederick Basill stole coal from the railway company.
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  • Don't make a habit of trespassing and stealing
    Don't make a habit of trespassing and stealing
    David Patmore, Bert Sharp, and William Jones were all caught with their pockets stuffed full of rabbits.
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  • Don't take 'offence'
    Don't take 'offence'
    William Cooper of Widford was summoned for doing wilful damage to a fence.
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  • Dustbin stolen at Ware
    Dustbin stolen at Ware
    Thomas William Wilds was charged with stealing a dustbin.
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  • Ephraim Gore got the bird, but also got the maximum sentence!
    Ephraim Gore got the bird, but also got the maximum sentence!
    Ephraim Gore was caught in possession of poached game. He had 40 previous convictions.
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  • Farmers and Police say 'We stamp out hooliganism'
    Farmers and Police say 'We stamp out hooliganism'
    Widespread damage in Stanstead Abbotts
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  • Felony most fowl
    Felony most fowl
    Two constables broke in, and killed and attempted to steal two chickens from a publican's back yard.
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  • For stealing a gold watch, one can do 'time'
    For stealing a gold watch, one can do 'time'
    Winifred Mackey, a driver, was guilty of stealing a gold watch.
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  • For the chop - felony at Hoddesdon
    For the chop - felony at Hoddesdon
    William Humberstone, of Amwell Street, Hoddesdon, was charged with stealing a piece of wood
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  • For want of a nail
    For want of a nail
    William Thompson, of 47, Crescent Road, Waltham Cross, and John Francis Rouchy, of Utteridge Road, Freezywater, were charged with being in possession of about 33lbs. of copper nails, gun and other metal.
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  • For young boys, does gambling really pay ?
    For young boys, does gambling really pay ?
    All seven boys, found under the railway bridge, were found guilty of gambling, and were fined accordingly.
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  • Fowl play
    Fowl play
    Edward Moss Hale, an ex-police officer, was charged with stealing three turkeys and three pieces of harness, with a second count of receiving the goods knowing they were stolen.
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  • Fowl stealing at Cuffley
    Fowl stealing at Cuffley
    George William Squires, of Lower Edmonton, and Edward Leyton, of no fixed abode, were charged with stealing twenty chickens.
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  • Freeman, Alban Henry, 139, Police Constable.
    Freeman, Alban Henry, 139, Police Constable.
    Section B Reservist, Gunner 205985, Royal Horse Artillery who died from fever on the 7th March 1917.
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  • Game trespass by Moles at Stanstead Abbotts
    Game trespass by Moles at Stanstead Abbotts
    Arthur G. Moles, of Stanstead Abbotts summonsed for game trespass.
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