PETERSFIELD.
MAGISTRATES' CLERK'S OFFICE—October 20th, present—Sir Archibald McDonald and J. B. Carter, Esq.
— ASSAULTING A CONSTABLE.—Guiseppe Storti, was brought before the magistrates on a charge of violently assaulting Abraham Borrer, a member of the Surrey Constabulary, in September, 1857. It appeared that Borrer was attempting to take the prisoner into custody for fowl stealing when he resisted, and made so murderous an attack on the constable as to lay him up for three weeks. In the meantime the man had been sentenced to twelve months’ imprisonment, which had now expired, and the charge of assault was brought against him. The prisoner, who had the assistance of an interpreter, declined to make any defence, and was committed for trial at the next Assizes.
— ELIZABETH ROGERS was brought up before J. B. Carter, Esq., on the 26th inst., charged with deserting her two children, then in the Horndean Union.—Committed for three weeks.
— ROBBERY IN A PUBLIC HOUSE—George Cowan and Agnes Cowan, man and wife, were indicted at the Hants Michaelmas Sessions held at Winchester last week, for stealing the sum of £2 8s. and a purse from the person of Eliza Emm, at Petersfield, on the 28th ult.. It appeared, from the evidence, that the prisoner, a hatter, had a hat given to him to clean by the prosecutrix, and when it was brought back she gave the female prisoner some food, and invited her down to the White Hart, where they had some gin, the prosecutrix giving the landlord a sovereign to pay for It. When he brought her the change, she thought she saw a dark-looking florin amongst it, and put it into her pocket loose. The remainder she put into her purse, where there was another sovereign and half a sovereign. They went Into another room, and had some more gin, and then the prosecutrix lost her senses, and missed all she had when she came to herself the next morning. The jury acquitted the male prisoner, but found the female guilty, and she was sentenced to three months’ hard labour.