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Offences Against Property

  • Letter of the law - stealing letters from pillar boxes At Ware
    Letter of the law - stealing letters from pillar boxes At Ware
    John Richens, of Church Street, and George Perry, of Kibes Lane, Ware, were charged with stealing letters from a Post Office pillar box.
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  • Letter of the law - stealing letters from pillar boxes at Ware - continuedt
    Letter of the law - stealing letters from pillar boxes at Ware - continuedt
    John Richens, 21 and George Perry, 22, of Ware, pleaded guilty to stealing letters from a pillar letter box in the town.
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  • Licensee's serious offence of buying army forage
    Licensee's serious offence of buying army forage
    Edward Boxall (61), licensee of the Red Lion public-house, Bucklersbury, Hitchin, and his son were charged with buying Army forage.
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  • Light the way through the forest with a stolen lamp !
    Light the way through the forest with a stolen lamp !
    Mrs Sarah Rose Springham, of High Wych, was charged with breaking into the dwelling house of Mr A.R. Steele, Northbrooks, Great Parndon, and stealing a brass hanging lamp.
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  • Like a headless chicken !
    Like a headless chicken !
    Frederick Charles Hughes, 35, of Kilburn, an omnibus conductor, was charged with feloniously stealing two fowls.
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  • Loafing about !
    Loafing about !
    Thomas Clegg, 17, was charged with stealing a loaf of bread from the cart of Mr E. Searle of Hunsdon.
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  • Losing your shirt - petty sessions
    Losing your shirt - petty sessions
    Charles Bevan, of Dartford, Kent, was charged with stealing a shirt, value 3 shillings, the property of Harry Law, at Stanstead Abbotts.
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  • Males will be Males !
    Males will be Males !
    Ernest Males (16) of New Town, Codicote, was charged with breaking into and entering the house of his uncle and stealing £14.
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  • Man accused of house-breaking
    Man accused of house-breaking
    Burglar caught climbing through window
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  • Man left shop with a coat then offered £1 : Garden City man fined
    Man left shop with a coat then offered £1 : Garden City man fined
    Theft of overcoat in winter
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  • Milton's paradise lost - girl's serious lapse
    Milton's paradise lost - girl's serious lapse
    Dorothy Milton , 17, factory hand , 37 Kibes Lane , Ware , was charged with stealing clothes, etc.
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  • Mischievous children
    Mischievous children
    John Barnby (13) and Harold Warner (11), of Stepney, Owen Marshall (10), of Enfield, and Gregory Gascoyne (9), of Hoddesdon, were charged with damaging a door at Hoddesdon.
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  • Night poaching & violence
    Night poaching & violence
    Charles Smith, alias Sells, and Horace Harrison, were indicted for night poaching, being armed with a gun.
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  • Nine months' hard labour for theft from warehouse
    Nine months' hard labour for theft from warehouse
    Five men broke into a Waltham Cross warehouse and stole cloth and clothing.
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  • None of this rolling around in the grass, please !
    None of this rolling around in the grass, please !
    The six boys from Waltham Cross were fined 5 shillings for rolling about and thus damaging grass, but it could have been 6 months under the Defence of the Realm Act !
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  • Notable convictions from the Criminal Justice Act in St Albans and Hertford
    Notable convictions from the Criminal Justice Act in St Albans and Hertford
    Much robbery of valuable goods from the railway company: additional robbery from the shoe shop!
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  • Notable Events In Week Three
    Notable Events In Week Three
    Hertfordshire Police Historical Society This Week In History. 14th to 20th January 14/1/1843 Hertford Mercury and Reformer 14th of January 1843 Reports of Chief Constables It will be recollected that the Marquis of Salisbury, at the late quarter sessions, objected to the report of the Chief Constable, on account of its furnishing a comparative statement of the cases of sheep stealing ...
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  • On the wrong track - stealing coal from a railway truck - petty sessions
    On the wrong track - stealing coal from a railway truck - petty sessions
    George Josiah Staff, of Railway Road, Waltham Cross, was charged with stealing coal from a truck at Waltham Cross Railway Station - he was fined 15 shillings or 14 days' imprisonment.
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  • On two wheels
    On two wheels
    Private John Pearce, a Territorial of the North Midland Brigade, was charged with stealing a bicycle.
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  • One potato, two potato - petty sessions
    One potato, two potato - petty sessions
    Alfred Suckling, of Kibes Lane, Ware, pleaded not guilty to stealing potatoes on July 21st.
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  • Out for a duck - theft of ducks - petty sessions
    Out for a duck - theft of ducks - petty sessions
    Homeless William Cannon was charged with stealing two ducks from an outhouse at Cheshunt. When charged, he was pleased with the prospect of spending Christmas in prison.
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  • Past policing In Ware
    Past policing In Ware
    A boy of about 10 years admitted stealing from an allotment.
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  • PC Ebenezer Buss recovers a sack of oats
    PC Ebenezer Buss recovers a sack of oats
    PC found stolen oats in a cart and refused bribe.
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  • Penal servitude for an old offender
    Penal servitude for an old offender
    George Cox (46), pleaded guilty to stealing five blankets, two ground sheets, and two pairs of boots, the property of the Secretary of State for War.
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