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Welfare

Concern for welfare of children,  the elderly and other vulnerable people.  Offences of bigamy, abandonment, paternity suits.  cases of neglect.

  • A boy's boots

    A boy's boots

    Benjamin Cordwell, a labourer, of Star Street, Ware, was summoned for not sending his child regularly to school.
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  • A heartless bigamist

    A heartless bigamist

    Charles James Burton (30), a contractor, was charged with feloniously marrying Clarice Hester May Rawkins whilst his wife, Edith Kate Burton, was still alive.
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  • A narrow escape

    A narrow escape

    At Hertford, a 6 year old boy had a narrow escape from being drowned in the River Lee.
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  • A wanderer

    A wanderer

    An 18-year-old nursery hand charged with being a vagrant.
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  • A well deserved award

    A well deserved award

    All officers are awarded a pay rise, plus the honorarium for the Acting Chief Constable
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  • Alleged concealment of birth - servant and gardener committed for trial

    Alleged concealment of birth - servant and gardener committed for trial

    Mercy Elizabeth Haffer (17) and William Worboys (17), were charged with concealing the birth of a female child at Windy Harbour, in the parish of Kelshall.
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  • Bread and cheese will do !

    Bread and cheese will do !

    David Watkinson (47), of no fixed abode, was charged with begging.
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  • Brutal father sentenced to 15 years' penal servitude

    Brutal father sentenced to 15 years' penal servitude

    Joseph Atkins, 44, labourer, pleaded guilty to a brutal offence upon his seven year old daughter.
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  • Children and farm labour

    Children and farm labour

    Children and farm labour - 2 newspaper excerpts on the subject
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  • Cruel exposure of a child

    Cruel exposure of a child

    Elijah Miles, a labourer from Standon, making a living as a poacher, was charged with neglect and exposure of his 10 year-old son.
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  • Cruelty to a mare

    Cruelty to a mare

    Londoner fined for cruelty to animal.
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  • Does bigamy pay ?

    Does bigamy pay ?

    Emily Cook left her husband because of cruelty but, being still married, she committed bigamy. She was sentenced to 4 months' imprisonment. The judge was lenient because of circumstances.
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  • Drunk in charge of a child

    Drunk in charge of a child

    Hoddesdon munitions workers drunk in charge of a child.
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  • Drunk in charge of a child

    Drunk in charge of a child

    Drunken mother in charge of a 7 year old, with bare feet in heavy rain.
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  • Drunk in charge of a push-cart

    Drunk in charge of a push-cart

    Drunken woman in charge of handcart and a child.
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  • Drunken assault on police:Green Street

    Drunken assault on police:Green Street

    A drunk falls on top of a baby and all hell breaks loose.
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  • Fit at the Fiddle

    Fit at the Fiddle

    A man was lying seriously ill by the side of the road near the Fiddle siding.
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  • Flooding in the Lea Valley, 1968

    Flooding in the Lea Valley, 1968

    Photos of the flooding of the Lea valley in September 1968. Local Officers had to use their initiative to deal with the problems.
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  • If placing a bet, or begging, put your shirt on it

    If placing a bet, or begging, put your shirt on it

    John Coote was convicted of begging, despite having hidden two good shirts to wear. He was imprisoned, with hard labour.
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  • Intoxicating Liquor (Temporary Restriction) Act, 1914

    Intoxicating Liquor (Temporary Restriction) Act, 1914

    Following in the wake of the Act, a letter was tabled at the Petty Sessions from a Mr W.E. Jones of the Wesleyan Quarterly Meeting.
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  • It's all about 4-letter words

    It's all about 4-letter words

    A lot of officers with four-letter names are dying from influenza
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  • Kimpton bigamy charge - soldier formerly billeted at Harpenden

    Kimpton bigamy charge - soldier formerly billeted at Harpenden

    Samuel Bowcutt (50), a discharged soldier of Tipton, Hertfordshire, was charged with feloniously marrying Florence Jane Hobbs, while his wife whom he married on March 29th 1891, was still alive.
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  • Mad Lucas - The hermit of Redcoats

    Mad Lucas - The hermit of Redcoats

    James Lucas was a wealthy, eccentric, Victorian land-owner who developed a paranoid fear of his relatives and barricaded himself inside the family mansion. He remained there in a state of siege for 25 years.
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  • Maintenance has to be paid for children left at the workhouse

    Maintenance has to be paid for children left at the workhouse

    Robert William Box, a coal carrier, had left his children chargeable to the Union for a number of years but paid no maintenance for them.
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