A detective says :- It’s not all luck in real life Hertfordshire Mercury – 02/03/1951 Real life detective officers bear no resemblance to ” those chaps who appear in the character of decectives on stage , screen and radio ” , said Detective Inspector P (?) .H. Paybody , of Hatfield , when he addressed members of Hertford Rotary ...
Read more Leonard Wingerath (25), a hairdresser, a German subject residing at 169 St Thomas's Road, Finsbury Park, was charged with travelling more than five miles from his place of work.
Read more Ryan was then charged with being concerned with others in breaking into the Co-operative Stores at Hoddesdon and stealing goods to the value of £43 . John Smithurst , of Rushy Mead , Keyser’s Estate , Broxbourne , manager of the Co-operative clothing and drapery department , stated that on Saturday , December 6 , he locked up ...
Read more Eleanor Chalkley was summoned for stealing eggs. She attempted suicide as a result. Although the employer from whom she stole did not wish to press the case, the Bench adjourned the hearing.
Read more Why do you think people were afraid of this person? A story taken from the Buntingford General Occurence book What did this spy supposedly look like? Why do you think it was reported? There were some alarms, in particular the appearance in several locations of an alleged German spy, who dressed in a variety of disguises. The first mention ...
Read more Embezzler pays with 6 months in prison
Read more Would you like to find out more about the On the Beat Project? Come along to Hertfordshire Archives on 3 September 2013, when we will be celebrating the project so far and showing what we have been doing. Our conservators will be giving tours of the conservation studio and demonstrating how they have rescued boxes of water ...
Read more Man charged with throwing fireworks in street
Read more CARD PLAYING ON SUNDAY – Edwin Walker, Leonard Wagstaffe and Alfred Game pleaded not guilty to card-playing on Riverside on Sunday, November 18th. P.C. Dean stated that on the Sunday evening in question he and P.C. Pusey caught the defendants playing cards under a gas lamp in the Folly at the bottom of Thornton Street ...
Read more There were sixteen prisoners on the calendar, who were concerned in 12 cases, viz; one burglary, one fowl-stealing, four larceny, one manslaughter, one malicious damage, one grievous bodily harm, one night-poaching while armed, one shopbreaking, and one stealing letters.
Read more Hertfordshire Mercury – 16/02/1951 How to stop roads deaths Working from an office in the Hertfordshire Police Headquarters at Hatfield , is a man who believes the major problem of death and injury on the road could be almost solved by the simple practice of courtesy by all road users . He is Sergeant R. H. Gaylor , ...
Read more Hertfordshire Police Historical Society This Week In History 11/2/1979 The construction of the new divisional police headquarters and renovation of the sub-divisional police station at Watford was completed on schedule at the beginning of the year. The move from the temporary accommodation at Addiscombe Road School back to the Shady Lane site took place on Sunday, 11 February ...
Read more What essential job are these men doing for the war effort?
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