PETERSFIELD.
Agent—Miss DUPLOCK.
SMASHING.—Edward Jones, John Neale, John Jones, and Richard Robinson, remanded from the previous Monday, and whose examination on that occasion was reported at length in last week’s Telegraph, were again brought up on Monday last, before the Hon. J. J. Carnegie, when the following additional evidence was given: Thomas Fey, Superintendent of Police, deposed: Since the last examination, on the 2nd inst., I have made a further examination of the coins. I find there are twenty florins (two packets, containing ten each), dated 1856; two packets, each containing four half-crowns, dated George IV., 1825, and four dated Victoria, 1845; two loose half-crowns, 1825; one ditto, 1845; one loose shilling, 1842; one packet, containing six shillings, dated George IV., 1820, and three ditto Victoria, 1842; six haIf-sovereigns, each wrapped up separately in a piece of paper, dated as follows—viz., two Victoria, 1842; one Victoria, 1855; and three Victoria, 1857. All these have been in my possession ever since I first received them.—Edward Perkins: I produce the half-crown uttered to Laker on the 24th of July; it bears the date of 1845. It has been in my possession ever since.—Thomas Ayling: I live in Harting Combe, in the Parish of Rogate. I was sent for, as constable of Rogate, to go to Rake on the 24th of July. I got there between four and five in the afternoon. I found a spring cart there in a shed; there was a chalk mark on the place where the name is painted; it appeared to be covered over with black-lead or blacking. I rubbed it off, and found the following under it:—‟John Stewart, 3, Canterbury-place, Agar-town, St. Pancras, Middlesex. No. 18.” Prisoners, after the usual caution, were committed for trial at the Quarter Sessions at Winchester, with permission to Edward Jones, John Jones, and Richard Robinson to put in bail, themselves severally in the sum of 80l., with two sureties of 40l. each, and John Neale, himself 100l. and two sureties of 50l. each—forty-eight hours’ notice of bail to be given to the Solicitor to the Mint.
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