PETERSFIELD.
Agent—MISS DUPLOCK.
PETTY SESSIONS—Tuesday.—Present, Hon. J. Carnegie (Chairman), J. H. Waddington, J. Waddington, R. Steele, and J. Martineau, Esqrs.
— This was one of the days for the transfer of licenses.
The Five Bells, at Buriton, was transferred from Thomas Banks to James Hall;
and the Bell, at Liss, from Reuben Jenkins to John Longhurst.
— Edward Burn was charged under the Criminal Justice Act with stealing a pint earthenware mug, value 3d., from the Anchor tap, at Liphook, on Saturday last.—Emily Enticknapp deposed: I am servant to Mr. Windebank, who keeps the Anchor tap. On Saturday last, about two o’clock in the afternoon, Charles Croucher came into the tap and called for a pint of beer, which I supplied in an earthenware mug. Prisoner came in directly after, and also three women. They became disorderly, and master turned them all out. I went into the room about a quarter of an hour after they were gone, when I missed the mug. I am quite sure no one else had been there. The mug had a string on the handle, and that now produced is the same. I can swear to it from the string and also from a crack in the bottom.—Charles Stone deposed: I am a police-constable stationed at Liphook. About half-past two last Saturday afternoon I went to the Anchor tap, and in consequence of information I received there I went in search of the prisoner, and I found him standing in the road near Mr. Christmas's shop, about 300 yards from the Anchor. He had a bundle in his hand. I had seen the same bundle in his possession about two hours before, near the Wheat Sheaf. I asked him what it contained. He said a child's frock, a pair of slippers, and nothing but what was his own. I took the bundle from him and examined it, when I found the mug which I now produce. I said ‟Is this your’s?” He said ‟Yes, it is.” That there might be no mistake, I held the mug up before him and repeated the question, and he again asserted that it belonged to him. I asked him where he got it, and he said he brought it from the other side of Kingston. I took him to the Anchor tap, and Mr. Windebank identified the mug as his property. I then took him into custody, when he resisted violently, and I was obliged to get the assistance of three men to secure him. He then lay down and refused to move, and I was obliged to bring him to Petersfield by rail, where I placed him in the station-house. Prisoner elected to be tried by the Bench, and was convicted and sentenced to two months’ imprisonment with hard labour.
— Peter Luff and William Mills, both of Petersfield, were sworn in as members of the 12th Hants Rifle Volunteer Corps.