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Offences Against Property

  • Penal servitude for theft at Broxbourne
    Penal servitude for theft at Broxbourne
    Arthur Watson, 23, labourer, pleaded guilty to stealing an overcoat and a bicycle
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  • Petty  sessions - excerpts - eggs & football
    Petty sessions - excerpts - eggs & football
    Walter Stringer charged with taking three partridge eggs.
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  • Petty sessions
    Petty sessions
    Cases of drunkenness and theft.
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  • Petty sessions - in need of salvation - ungrateful robbery at Ware
    Petty sessions - in need of salvation - ungrateful robbery at Ware
    Robert Thomas Hilditch, a young man with several aliases, and having no fixed abode, was charged with stealing a silver watch and chain, a silver chain and various other small articles.
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  • Petty sessions : theft of two coats
    Petty sessions : theft of two coats
    Annie Wakler, a married woman, was charged with stealing two overcoats, one the property of Henry Hinstridge, and the other belonging to Wiliam Darton, at Hitchin, on March 10th.
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  • Pilfering children
    Pilfering children
    Harry Blakes (12), and May Blakes (14) of Black Swan Yard, Ware, were convicted of stealing potatoes.
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  • Poached - again
    Poached - again
    James Smith, of no fixed abode, was charged with night poaching at Essendon, and further with assaulting William Percy Maddocks, a gamekeeper.
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  • Poaching at Northaw
    Poaching at Northaw
    Arthur Gritty, of Walton Road, Enfield, was summoned for trespassing on land belonging to Admiral Sir Hedworth Meux, at Northaw, and taking rabbits.
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  • Poaching at Panshanger
    Poaching at Panshanger
    Herbert Wright and Samuel Playle were summoned for being found upon land belonging to Lord Desborough in search of game.
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  • Police commended by sessions chairman
    Police commended by sessions chairman
    Inter-force cooperation prevented crime, and caught offenders
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  • Police court - boy sent to reformatory
    Police court - boy sent to reformatory
    Two Ware schoolboys charged with stealing a watch and chain.
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  • Police Dog Searches For Intruders
    Police Dog Searches For Intruders
    German Shepherd dog assisted in search
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  • Police officers improperly accept army stores
    Police officers improperly accept army stores
    Two Police Officers knowingly receive food, illegally, from army stores. They plead guilty, suffer the disgrace, are dismissed from the Force, are fined, and resolve to join the army.
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  • Police told about stone throwing. New Parish Council member
    Police told about stone throwing. New Parish Council member
    Telephone kiosk being damaged by stones.
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  • Pound of flesh - stealing a Sunday dinner
    Pound of flesh - stealing a Sunday dinner
    Thomas Ives and Henry Coxall, labourers, of South Street, were brought up in custody, charged with stealing 1lb of beef and 2lb of veal.
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  • Proper pickle - theft from Hatfield show
    Proper pickle - theft from Hatfield show
    Charles Gilbert, of 8, Berner's Street, London, a groom, was charged on remand with stealing a jar of pickles.
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  • Raid on a grocer's shop
    Raid on a grocer's shop
    A remarkable story was told during the hearing at the Police Court, on Tuesday, a charge of larceny against two brothers named Lee, aged 13 and 12 respectively, living in Nascot Street.
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  • Recidivist boy
    Recidivist boy
    George Adams a boy, appeared before Ware Petty Sessions for the third time - sent to the house of correction and sentenced to 12 strokes of the birch
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  • Reed, George, Superintendent.
    Reed, George, Superintendent.
    Newspaper report of the deeds of Superintendent Reed in capturing a fraudster who passed a bad cheque, A burglar who stole a gold watch from the Railway Hotel and a man wanted across the county for theft of overcoats. 1913
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  • Reformatory boy's escapade
    Reformatory boy's escapade
    William Morgan (18), of the Herts. Reformatory, Bengeo, was charged with feloniously stealing certain articles, and further with burglariously breaking into and entering.
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  • Reformatory boy's escapade
    Reformatory boy's escapade
    William Morgan (19), labourer, was indicted for burgariously breaking and entering and theft.
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  • Robbery by a boy - petty sessions
    Robbery by a boy - petty sessions
    William Gilham, of West Ham, was charged with stealing a silver watch and a bunch of keys.
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  • Runaway reformatory boys
    Runaway reformatory boys
    Two boys from the Herts Reformatory School, Bengeo were charged with stealing clothing.
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  • Sacrilege and burglary at St Margaret's
    Sacrilege and burglary at St Margaret's
    Joseph Walter Blackwell, of 63 Arlington Street, Camden Town, was charged with breaking and entering St Margaret's Church, and stealing a missionary box and its contents, also a hand brush and towel.
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