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Offences Against Property

  • Gaoled for stealing bicycle
    Gaoled for stealing bicycle
    Cycle theft led to six months inside.
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  • Getting booted out!
    Getting booted out!
    Annie Young, of Hertford, was charged with obtaining 3 pairs of boots from Graveson's, by false pretences.
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  • Girl's theft of a bicycle
    Girl's theft of a bicycle
    Marjorie Sibyl Shannon (13), of 97 Hindes Road, Harrow, was summoned for stealing a bicycle.
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  • Give him the sack !
    Give him the sack !
    Private David George Goodman of the Army Service Corps, at Ware Station, was charged with stealing five sacks, to the value of 7 shillings and 6 pence, the property of the Secretary of State for War.
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  • Going unequipped - theft of tools at St Albans
    Going unequipped - theft of tools at St Albans
    William Woodford (43), carpenter, was indicted stealing a basket containing a quantity of tools.
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  • Gone for a Burton
    Gone for a Burton
    Coffee stall raiders sent to prison
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  • Good work, Godfrey !
    Good work, Godfrey !
    Theft of car and other offences
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  • Growing up in a life of crime - hard labour awaits
    Growing up in a life of crime - hard labour awaits
    Alfred Humberstone, 21, commits crime, absconds from the army, leads younger boys into crime, and looks forward to hard labour as a result.
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  • Habitual stealing by a boy of 10 does not induce sympathy
    Habitual stealing by a boy of 10 does not induce sympathy
    Thomas Clark, aged 10, with others, stole some golf balls. He also stole money from a shop till. All this while still on probation. He was sentenced to a beating and then reformatory.
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  • Hatfield - alleged attempt to break into garage
    Hatfield - alleged attempt to break into garage
    Three men remanded in custody.
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  • Haul of army blankets
    Haul of army blankets
    The charge sheet at the St Albans Petty Sessions on Thursday morning was an imposing document, It contained the names and addresses of twenty-seven persons who had been summoned for being in unlawful possession of Army blankets.
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  • He could not resist the temptation to steal
    He could not resist the temptation to steal
    Alphonse Walghe was tempted by the sight of so much money and could not resist that temptation.
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  • He stole a horse but left his own pony behind
    He stole a horse but left his own pony behind
    Alfred Dearman, 27, was charged with stealing a horse, valued at 100 guineas.
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  • He's at it again!
    He's at it again!
    Charles William Cox, 63, a painter, pleaded guilty to breaking and entering a shop in St Albans and stealing 4 pipes.
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  • Hertford Borough Sessions - theft of a coat and vest
    Hertford Borough Sessions - theft of a coat and vest
    James Shaw, a stranger in the neighbourhood, was charged with stealing a coat and vest.
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  • Hertfordshire Epiphany quarter sessions - St Albans
    Hertfordshire Epiphany quarter sessions - St Albans
    Two men convicted. One brought up on his fiftieth charge!
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  • Hertfordshire summer assizes
    Hertfordshire summer assizes
    24 prisoners and 18 cases.
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  • Hey, that's my polony
    Hey, that's my polony
    Ernest Colclough, a soldier, is charged with stealing two polonies from a butcher's shop in Bishop's Stortford - caught in the act, in fact.
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  • Hitchin election robberies (extract from article)
    Hitchin election robberies (extract from article)
    All passed off quietly on Friday evening, and the absence of noise and excitement after the uproar of the three previous days was very welcome to most people.
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  • Hitchin jeweller severely censured
    Hitchin jeweller severely censured
    Gwendoline Hughff, aged 23, of Codicote, was charged with stealing a gold bracelet and silver watch, and also a gold ring.
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  • Hitchin jeweller warned after theft by Codicote girl
    Hitchin jeweller warned after theft by Codicote girl
    Gwendoline Hughff, aged 24, was indicted for stealing a gold bracelet, a silver watch and also with stealing a gold ring
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  • Hoddesdon boy's mean theft
    Hoddesdon boy's mean theft
    Cyril Monk (15), of Lea Road, Hoddesdon, was charged with stealing a pocket knife, and a pair of nut crackers.
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  • Hoddesdon man's crime record
    Hoddesdon man's crime record
    Alfred Humberstone , labourer , 104 Amwell Street , Hoddesdon , was charged with stealing a gent's overcoat and a pair of gauntlet gloves.
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  • Horse stealing at Hitchin
    Horse stealing at Hitchin
    Henry John Bullard, 35, labourer, pleaded not guilty to an indictment for stealing a bay gelding.
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