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  • The Fox got the fowls
    The Fox got the fowls
    Ebenezer Albert Fox, one of a pair of famous (or infamous) Stevenage twins, was charged with stealing 5 fowls.
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  • Hitchin election robberies (extract from article)
    Hitchin election robberies (extract from article)
    All passed off quietly on Friday evening, and the absence of noise and excitement after the uproar of the three previous days was very welcome to most people.
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  • The Salvation Army Band And The Public
    The Salvation Army Band And The Public
    Four members of the Salvation Army were charged with noise offences.
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  • Petty sessions : theft of two coats
    Petty sessions : theft of two coats
    Annie Wakler, a married woman, was charged with stealing two overcoats, one the property of Henry Hinstridge, and the other belonging to Wiliam Darton, at Hitchin, on March 10th.
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  • Shouting In The Street By Shopmen
    Shouting In The Street By Shopmen
    Two shopmen summoned for annoying passengers on the highway.
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  • Not the best way to make the motor car more popular : man caught speeding
    Not the best way to make the motor car more popular : man caught speeding
    17 mph instead of 12 mph nets a visiting motorist from Lowestoft a £5 fine.
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  • Horse stealing at Hitchin
    Horse stealing at Hitchin
    Henry John Bullard, 35, labourer, pleaded not guilty to an indictment for stealing a bay gelding.
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  • A wife's sad plight
    A wife's sad plight
    Man summoned to show good cause why he should not be bound over to keep the peace towards his wife.
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  • Serving soldiers after hours : Green Man public house breaches DORA rules
    Serving soldiers after hours : Green Man public house breaches DORA rules
    Mr Thomas Cooper, licensee of the Green Man in Ickleford was charged under the Defence of the Realm Act for serving soldiers after hours.
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  • Father & son from the Herts Constabulary in the 1800s
    Father & son from the Herts Constabulary in the 1800s
    Story and photographs of father and son both of whom served in Hertfordshire Constabulary in the late 19th century. The father lived until he was 81 while the son succumbed to T.B. at the age of 32.
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  • Not a suffragette
    Not a suffragette
    Some excitement was occasioned in the early hours of Monday morning, when the police were informed that a suffragette had been found inside the Old Town Hall
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  • Reed, George, Superintendent.
    Reed, George, Superintendent.
    Newspaper report of the deeds of Superintendent Reed in capturing a fraudster who passed a bad cheque, A burglar who stole a gold watch from the Railway Hotel and a man wanted across the county for theft of overcoats. 1913
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  • 'Like letting a fox guard the hen house'
    'Like letting a fox guard the hen house'
    Albert Ebenezer fox (1857 – 20 May 1937) and Ebenezer Albert Fox (1857 – 2 October 1926) were identical twins, even identical down to their names!
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  • Assault on the police at Hitchin Bacon Factory
    Assault on the police at Hitchin Bacon Factory
    Charles Taylor, of Hitchin Hill, was charged with an assault on two police officers while in the execution of their duty.
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  • Assault on the police
    Assault on the police
    George Tomlin, of Queen Street, was charged on remand with assaulting P.C. Godfrey and P.C Vintner
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  • Pangbourne, William, Superintendent.
    Pangbourne, William, Superintendent.
    The story of William Pangbourne who was killed in 1867 when the cart he was driving overturned. A number of photographs and documents.
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  • The boy scout spy
    The boy scout spy
    Spy stories
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