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  • Assault, certainly with intent
    Assault, certainly with intent
    Noah Hill, charged with assaulting a constable, after having been stopped for his filthy language
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  • Attempted burglary, but the two boys do not escape the law
    Attempted burglary, but the two boys do not escape the law
    William and George Pateman, aged 12 and 9, committed burglary and were found hiding in the warehouse.
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  • Juvenile wrong-doing
    Juvenile wrong-doing
    Young boys from Letchworth Garden City causing trouble.
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  • A stillborn child, found under a hedge
    A stillborn child, found under a hedge
    A women finds the body of a baby in a box in Hitchin
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  • Roddis, Robert, 158, Police Constable, Sergeant.
    Roddis, Robert, 158, Police Constable, Sergeant.
    PC Roddis was accused of perjury.
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  • Bad language on the highway
    Bad language on the highway
    Frederick Wilshire, labourer, of Pirton, admitted using bad language on the highway at Hitchin.
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  • Bricklayer was drunk
    Bricklayer was drunk
    Henry Hailey pleaded guilty to being drunk and disorderly on the highway at Hitchin.
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  • Gamekeeper was drunk
    Gamekeeper was drunk
    Henry Lucas, a gamekeeper, admitted being drunk and disorderly on the highway at Whitwell.
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  • No lights
    No lights
    Mrs. Rebecca Chapman, of Letchworth, admitted riding an unlighted bicycle on the highway at Hitchin in the night time.
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  • Theft of bicycle lamps and pumps
    Theft of bicycle lamps and pumps
    Schoolboys charged with stealing bicycle items from a shed.
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  • Boys raid a grocer's van
    Boys raid a grocer's van
    Seven boys from Letchworth, whose ages ranged from 14 to 19, were charged with the theft of a jar of potted meat, value 6½d.
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  • Assaulting the police
    Assaulting the police
    Reuben Winch, a labourer, of Hitchin Hill, was fined 5 shillings for being drunk and disorderly and £1 for assaulting P.C. Young in the execution of his duty.
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  • Offence Against Swine Fever Order
    Offence Against Swine Fever Order
    Thomas Tyler, of 'The Plough' public-house, Datchworth, was summoned for a contravention of the Movement of Swine Order.
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  • Boys' escapade at St Albans Home
    Boys' escapade at St Albans Home
    Two boys, formerly inmates of St Albans Home, Knebworth, were charged on remand with stealing.
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  • Soldier in disgrace
    Soldier in disgrace
    Lance-Corpl. Frank Sherwood was charged with being drunk and disorderly and assaulting the police in the execution of their duty.
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  • Baby mystery unsolved
    Baby mystery unsolved
    Police are unable to trace the identity of a dead child found in Hitchin
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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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  • Hitchin sensation
    Hitchin sensation
    The body of a child is found in Windmill Hill, Hitchin in 1915
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  • Soldier's assault on police constable
    Soldier's assault on police constable
    Pte Frank Russell charged with assaulting PC Theed
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  • Young girl's false pretences
    Young girl's false pretences
    Ivy Papworth was charged with obtaining money by false pretences.
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  • Soldiers and the police
    Soldiers and the police
    Pte. Frank Russell (22), was charged with assaulting P.C. Theed.
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  • Hitchin Petty Sessions - Wood Value 6d
    Hitchin Petty Sessions - Wood Value 6d
    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 ...
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  • Instrumental in his own downfall - drunk and assaulting a constable
    Instrumental in his own downfall - drunk and assaulting a constable
    William Gray, tailor, of Hitchin, was charged with being drunk and disorderly and also of assaulting P.c. Robinson.
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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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