Hertfordshire Mercury, 31st October 1914 The Ware Fire Brigade received a call on the Monday evening at about 8.30 p.m. to The Bungalow, Baker’s End, Wareside. The Brigade, under Captain John Page, was quickly on the scene but was unable to render assistance as there was no water at hand. Superintendent Handley drove to the fire, and other ...
Read more Both Jeanette Alexander (19) and Charles Heard (17) were fined for taking matches into the gunpowder factory.
Read more David Watkinson (47), of no fixed abode, was charged with begging.
Read more James Heatson was charged with falsifying the books to the sum of about £2000. The case was adjourned, and the defendant was remanded in custody, to appear at Quarter Sessions.
Read more Indecency toward 15 year-old girl. .....9 months' imprisonment.
Read more Hertfordshire Mercury, 31st October 1914 Ellen Rushforth, of no fixed abode, was charged with stealing a National Relief Fund box containing 6 pence and 1 farthing, the property of the Welwyn Committee of the National Retirement Fund, on 16th October. The woman pleaded guilty. Thomas Parsons, manager of the Rose and Crown Public House, Welwyn, said that ...
Read more Bertie Harradine, a boy of eleven, pleaded guilty to stealing wood of the value of 6d., the property of the Garden City Company, at Letchworth on January 28th. P.C. Bowman said Harradine and his sister, under seven, were carrying wood from a heap to the house in which their parents lodged. The boy was dealt ...
Read more Six boys were fined sums varying between £1 and 10s, for playing cards on a Sunday.
Read more Frederick Scales, of Rye Common, pleaded not guilty to selling fireworks to children under thirteen, and also to keeping a certain quantity of gunpowder on his premises without a licence on November 5th. P.C. Carter, of Rye Common, stated that on the evening named he was on duty outside Mr Scales’ shop and through the ...
Read more The game was so dull … Hertfordshire Mercury, 27th July 1951 Defending six Hatfield men and a soldier , who pleaded guilty at Hatfield on Monday to playing , by way of gaming , in an open and public place , with cards. Mr F. Gibson told the Court the men went into Hatfield Park to watch ...
Read more Lieutenant Duncan nose-dived his plane, but lived to tell the tale!
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