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You are here: Home>Date of Coverage (by year)>1915

1915

  • Stealing wheat at Hertford
    Stealing wheat at Hertford
    Henry Evans and Arthur Livings, carmen in the employ of Messrs. A. McMullen & Co., seed merchants, were charged with stealing a sack of wheat.
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  • Stevens, William Robert, 60 & 61, Constable
    Stevens, William Robert, 60 & 61, Constable
    Having served as Private 2985 in the 19th (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own) Hussars he joined the Hertford County Constabulary in 1895. Recalled to the Colours on the 24th February 1901 for the Boer War he served for over a year in South Africa. Re-joining the Police he served as a Constable until retiring on pension in 1920.
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  • Story of a poplar tree
    Story of a poplar tree
    Henry Newton, Frederick Pratt, Alfred Pratt, and Emily Richmond, all of Cadmore Lane, Cheshunt, were summoned for being in the unlawful possession of a quantity of wood.
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  • Story of a rescue from the River Lee
    Story of a rescue from the River Lee
    Rescuer found drunk, leaning against railings.
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  • Strange suicide in a water butt
    Strange suicide in a water butt
    Walter Sidney Griggs, 42, was found head downwards in a water butt by his mother.
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  • Straying horses
    Straying horses
    Samuel Silverman, of Wallace's Yard, Trinity Marsh Lane, Cheshunt, was summoned for allowing two horses to stray.
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  • Strength of the Police Force
    Strength of the Police Force
    Newspaper report that the establishment of Police Officers has fallen due to enlistment and can not be allowed to drop further. 1915
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  • Stroud, Thomas Edward, 255, Police Constable.
    Stroud, Thomas Edward, 255, Police Constable.
    Section B Reservist, Lance Corporal P/8283 Military Mounted Police
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  • Sturman, William Ernest, 311, Police Constable.
    Sturman, William Ernest, 311, Police Constable.
    Section B Reservist, Guardsman 32193 Grenadier Guards
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  • Summons under the Lighting Order
    Summons under the Lighting Order
    Mrs. Macintosh Jowitt, of Anothoth, Nast Hyde, was summoned under the Lighting Order for failing to obscure the lights at her residence
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  • Summonses against cyclists
    Summonses against cyclists
    Several cyclists summoned to Cheshunt Petty Sessions under the Defence of the Realm Regulations for riding a bicycle without lights
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  • Suspected child murder at Hitchin
    Suspected child murder at Hitchin
    The body of a child, apparently 3 months old, was found wrapped up in a brown paper parcel on Windmill Hill, Hitchin.
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  • Swain, William, 148 and 212, Police Constable.
    Swain, William, 148 and 212, Police Constable.
    Acting Sergeant M2/117218 Royal Army Service Corps Motor Transport
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  • Tatham, George, 310, Police Constable.
    Tatham, George, 310, Police Constable.
    Private 11145 (later 270927 under re-organisation) 1st/1st Herts. Yeomanry, Private 202755, 11th Bn., Essex Regiment who died of wounds on 4th July 1918.
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  • Taylor, Albert Edward, 195 and 308, Police Constable.
    Taylor, Albert Edward, 195 and 308, Police Constable.
    5th Battalion Royal Fusiliers - If anyone has any information about this Police Soldier please add a comment at the end of the post. Thank you.
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  • That bulldog
    That bulldog
    Herbert Searle, a bandsman in the Hertfordshire Regiment, billeted in Chambers Street, was summoned for keeping a dog without a licence.
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  • The 'Black Hawk' gang
    The 'Black Hawk' gang
    Reginald Allison was charged with demanding money by menaces from Mrs. Edmonds, a solicitor's wife.
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  • The 'Stevenage Twins' fowl stealing case
    The 'Stevenage Twins' fowl stealing case
    Albert Ebenezer Fox, Ebenezer Albert Fox (the Stevenage Twins), and John Chamberlain and Henry Appleby, were charged on remand with being concerned together in a theft of six fowls.
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  • The birch for mischievous boys
    The birch for mischievous boys
    Charles Cockman (12), George Howard (10), Charles Bell (9), and Reginald Pilgrim (9), all of Rye Park, were charged with stealing various articles from a dwelling-house at Rye Common.
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  • The candle burnt out
    The candle burnt out
    Charles Cook ( 22), a labourer, of Ware Road, Hoddesdon, was summoned for driving a cart without a light.
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  • The curious recovery of a missing gun
    The curious recovery of a missing gun
    William Ernest Edward Smith, labourer, of Goffs Oak, was charged with night poaching with a gun on a field at Halstead Hill, Cheshunt.
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  • The German Farm Colony
    The German Farm Colony
    Ongong concerns about the German Farm Colony at Libury Hall detention camp at Munden, why it was being guarded by the local police force rather than the military authorities
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  • The Lighting Restrictions
    The Lighting Restrictions
    At Hertford County Sessions on Saturday, Mr John Rigby, of the Moat House, Hertingfordbury, land agent, was summoned for a contravention of the Lighting Restriction Order, on November 5.
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  • The Special Constabulary
    The Special Constabulary
    Men over military age are required to be enrolled as Sspecial Constables in Ware.
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