PETERSFIELD.
Agent—Miss DUPLOCK.
MAGISTRATES CLERK’S OFFICE, THURSDAY.—Moses Marsh, was brought up in custody before J. Bonham Carter, Esq., M.P., G. Forbes, Esq., and J. Waddington, Esq., charged with being on lands belonging to Sir J. C. Jervoise, Bart., M.P., in the occupation of Mr. Thomas Boys, in the parish of Chalton, on the night of Saturday, the 28th ult., armed with a gun, in search of game. James Webb deposed—I live at Blendworth, was watching in Chalton Park with Edward Atkins on the night of Saturday, the 28th January; about four o’clock on Sunday morning heard four reports of a gun and several pheasants flying from their roosts; heard the underwood rustle as if some persons were passing through it; heard footsteps of two persons coming towards us; prisoner came up close to me, I caught him by the collar; we struggled together and both fell to the ground, Marsh undermost. I knelt on him and took from his hand a gun and discharged it. He got the forefinger of my right hand between his teeth and bit it severely. I then struck him with a stick which I had in my hand, he cried ‟murder,” and I let him get up. Edward Atkins, who had gone in pursuit of the other man whom I had seen with Marsh, had by this time returned to my assistance, we searched the prisoner and found on him four pheasants, two hens and one cock. They were quite warm. We then took him to the Red Lion, at Chalton. I produce the gun which was taken from the prisoner. Edward Atkins corroborated the foregoing testimony as to watching with Webb, hearing report of guns, and seeing the prisoner and another man, adding that on returning from pursuing the other man, he found Webb and the prisoner both on the ground. He saw the gun raised between them, took it by the barrel, and held it on till Webb fired it off. Witness further deposed to finding four pheasants in prisoner’s pocket, as stated by Webb, and to delivering him into the custody of P.C. Wythe, at Finchdean. Prisoner was convicted, and evidence having been given that he had been convicted of a like offence at the Assize at Winchester, in March, 1857, he was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment with hard labour, and at the expiration of that time, to find sureties not to be guilty of the like offence for two years, or failing to find such sureties, to be imprisoned for a further period of one year.
— Thomas Messingham was remanded to Tuesday next, on a charge of stealing a saw, the property of James Ware, of Liphook.
— A batch of five seamen were brought up by Mr. Superintendent Fey and charged on suspicion with being deserters from Her Majesty’s navy. They had been apprehended that morning by P.C. Godfrey, at Gravel Hill. Remanded till Saturday.
Hampshire Chronicle - Saturday 04 February 1860
PETERSFIELD.]—At the Petty Sessions, on Thursday, before J. Bonham-Carter, G. Forbes, and J. H. Waddington, Esqrs.
— Moses Marsh (an old offender, who has spent the greatest portion of the last 20 years in prison), was again apprehended on Sunday morning, the 29th ult. in Chalton Park, the property of Sir J. C. Jervoise, Bart. M.P. It appears that the prisoner came suddenly upon the keeper and his assistant, and he was instantly seized, when he bit the keeper’s finger severely, but upon being struck with a stick he begged for mercy. Four pheasants were found upon him and his gun, which was loaded. Another man was with the prisoner, but he escaped. The case was clear, and the prisoner was committed to the County Prison for sic months, and afterwards to find bail in two bonds of £10 each for 12 months.