PETERSFIELD.
PETTY SESSIONS, Tuesday.— Present: Hon. J. J. Carnegie(Chairman), Sir J. C. Jervoise, Bart., M.P., Sir W. Knighton, Bart., and J, Waddington, Esq.
— Jonn Glee and George Glue (brothers), living at Rake, were convicted of stealing turnips in a field belonging to Mr. Thomas Vinson, at Liss, on Tuesday, the 25th October. Fined 5s. each, and 4s. 4d. costs each.
— John Jones was charged with assaulting James Moon, at Petersfield, on Thursday, 27th October. Fined £1 and costs 7s. 6d. (See below)
— Henry Carpenter pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing, at Liss, on Sunday, the 23rd, and on Sunday, the 30th October, a number of fir posts from a stack belonging to Mr. Albery. Ten days’ imprisonment with hard labour.
— Alfred Irish pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing, at the Blue Anchor public-house, Ramshill, Petersfield, on Monday, November 7th, one flannel shirt, belonging to James Kelsey, a lodger in the house, and a clock weight belonging to John Mekeln (Macklen), the landlord, and was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment with hard labour.
— John Bean was convicted in the penalty of 1s. and costs 7s 6d., on a charge of assaulting John Knight, at Clanfield, on Tuesday, the 18th October.
— John Adams, was fined 5s. and costs 7s. 6d. for being drunk and riotous at Horndean, on Saturday, 29th October.
ANOTHER CASE OF SELLING BEER WITHOUT A LICENSE AT PETERSFIELD HEATH FAIR.—At the Bench on Tuesday, William Rhodes, of Chichester, was charged on the information of P.C. Henry Elderfield with selling a quart of beer in a booth erected at Heath fair, on the 6th October, he not having an excise license authorising him so to do. This case was exactly similar to that of Wm. Seward, when we reported a fortnight since. Defendant was employed by Mr. Dellar, of the Victoria Brewery, Chichester, to sell beer and spirits at the fair under his (Dellar’s) license. Defendant, instead of placing his employer’s name over the entrance of the booth, had put his own name there, and had hung up a board with Mr. Dellar’s name in the bar. This practice appears to have been extensively adopted by publicans attending this and other fairs, and has hitherto passed unchallenged, but the decision off the Bench was that the placing of any other name than that of the licensed person over the entrance is an infraction of the law, and defendant, as well as James Bridger, whose case was adjourned from the last Bench day, was fined in the mitigated penalty of £5, the Chairman stating that the Bench would have been glad if they had had the power of reducing it still further. (See also 27-Oct-1864)
Surrey Advertiser — Saturday 12 November 1864
John Jones (late in the service of Mr. Crafts) was charged with assaulting James Moon, head ostler of the Red Lion and Dolphin Hotels, Petersfield.
Complainant deposed—On Thursday, the 27th Oct., I went, by direction of Mr. Crafts, to the Dolphin yard, to see that the defendant took his things out of the stable. I had just got to the stable door, when defendant said ‟You have done something for me, and I’ll do something for you, you b——.” He instantly struck me, and knocked me down, and left a mark upon my cheek. I had not spoken to him before he struck me. I then went for the police.
John Charles Airs, clerk to Mr. Crafts, corroborated the foregoing evidence.
Defendant said—I was in a passion at the time when I struck him, and I am sorry for it.
Fined £1, and 7s. 6d. costs.—Paid.