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  • Let the dog loose !
    Let the dog loose !
    Stuart Simkins and Charles Reynolds, both of Hertford, were charged with stealing tools.
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  • The chip shop challenge !
    The chip shop challenge !
    Henry Harvey, of no fixed abode, pleaded guilty to stealing 2 blouses and 1 pair of pants, of the value of 7 shillings.
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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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  • Theft by railway workmen
    Theft by railway workmen
    William George Eastman, of Enfield, engine driver, was charged with stealing coal and John Griffan and Albert Roberts, also of Enfield, labourers, were charged with stealing wood on the same day.
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  • Our German guest sent to prison
    Our German guest sent to prison
    At Bow Street Police Court on Friday, Henry Sonnet, 56, a German gardener of Old Cross, Hertford, was sentenced to a month's imprisonment for travelling more than five miles from his registered address without permit.
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  • Hertford County Sessions - drunk and disorderly
    Hertford County Sessions - drunk and disorderly
    William Childs, of Hertford Heath, was charged with being drunk and disorderly.
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  • Theft by a domestic servant
    Theft by a domestic servant
    Alice Swallow,17, of Little Hadam, was charged with stealing a gold purse and chain.
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  • Sleeping on a wagon
    Sleeping on a wagon
    William Francis, was summoned for riding, asleep whilst in charge of a waggon and two horses.
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  • Does responsibility corrupt ?
    Does responsibility corrupt ?
    Embezzler pays with 6 months in prison
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  • Poor pig !
    Poor pig !
    Henry Wright, of Pegs Lane, was charged with cruelty to a pig.
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  • How fast is dangerously fast ?
    How fast is dangerously fast ?
    Motor-cycle visitor from Enfield argues, unsuccessfully, that his speed in Fore Street was excessive.
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  • How many times?
    How many times?
    50th offence for drunkenness 'earns' a fine of 5 shillings.
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  • A very sad case
    A very sad case
    A child's body is found near Bengeo.
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  • Hertford Borough Sessions - theft of a coat and vest
    Hertford Borough Sessions - theft of a coat and vest
    James Shaw, a stranger in the neighbourhood, was charged with stealing a coat and vest.
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  • Jepps Farm history
    Jepps Farm history
    “Henry Reed, a noted butcher of 15 Castle Street, Hertford, reported that he had, for the Christmas trade, received the choicest pigs, geese, ducks, fowls and rabbits, but also 320 turkeys from different suppliers, one of whom was Mr Brooks of Jepps Farm.”
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  • Deadly !
    Deadly !
    Frank Saunders, of Fisher's lodging house, was charged with attempting to commit suicide by cutting his throat
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  • Horses for courses
    Horses for courses
    Richard Bailey (22), of Cambridge was charged with assaulting Oliver Clipstone with intent to commit a felony and steal money.
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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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  • She was a strong woman
    She was a strong woman
    Two men and a woman, drunk and disorderly in Railway Street, blame imaginary navvies for affray.
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  • How rude!
    How rude!
    Noah Dearman, of Hertford, was charged with obscene language.
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  • Stealing cauliflowers - Hertford county sessions
    Stealing cauliflowers - Hertford county sessions
    Eight cucumbers stolen; valued in 1906 at 2 shillings and 8 pence (modern equivalent 13 new pence or 1 ½ new pence each). Offender fined £1.
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  • Theft of a knife - petty sessions
    Theft of a knife - petty sessions
    Hertford men summoned for stealing a table knife in Ware.
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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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  • Dolley, Leonard, 68, Police Constable.
    Dolley, Leonard, 68, Police Constable.
    Newspaper report into circumstances of death of PC L Dolley who had served at Hertford in France in January 1915. As a tragic postscript his brother Bertie was killed on Christmas day 1915 (see post on this site)
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