PETERSFIELD.
BURGLARY.—On Monday last the house of James Whitehart, at Bullinge Hill, was broken into and a quantity of clothes stolen. An entrance was effected by breaking a pane glass and the window being then unfastened, and thief entered and helped himself to various articles of clothing—a coat, trousers, waistcoats, boots, shirts. &c.,; in fact the entire wardrobe of the inmates—father and son.
Chichester Express and West Sussex Journal — Tuesday 09 January 1866
BREAKING INTO A COTTAGE.—On Monday, the 1st inst., the house pf William Whitehart, labourer residing at a cottage alongside the London and Portsmouth Turnpike road, Bullinge Hill, in the parish of Buriton, one mile from this town, was broken into between the hours of 9 a.m. and 3 p.m., when wearing apparel (being the best belonging to himself and his son) as well as some bed linen, was taken and carried away to the value of about £5. Upon the discovery being made information was at once given to Mr Superintendent Longland, who has been indefatigable in his endeavours to trace the thief (as one only is believed to be concerned), but unfortunately, up to the time we are writing, Friday evening, without success.
Another Burglary was also committed in a cottage at Bramdeane on the same night when property, also belonging to a labouring man, was taken and carried clean off.