PETERSFIELD
Agent—Miss DUPLOCK
PETTY SESSIONS, Tuesday.—Present: G. Forbes, Esq. (Chairman), Sir A. K. Macdonald, Bart., and Sir W. Knighton, Bart.
— A poor-rate was signed for the parish of Bramshott.
— A lighting rate was signed for the parish of Petersfield.
— Two soldiers from Woolmer Camp, whose names did not transpire, were brought up for remand, on a charge of stealing a goose, and remanded till Friday.
— The licence of the Wheatsheaf Inn, Liphook, was temporarily transferred by endorsement from Mr. James Laker to Mr. James Ware.
— A licence to sell game was granted to Mr. Edward Martin, of Horndean.
—LARCENY. —Thomas Stacey was charged with stealing, on the 5th instant, a hoe, the property of Thomas Moss, of Rake. P. C. Aaron Coombs deposed as follows:—I was on duty at Rake about half-past four in the morning of Tuesday, the 5th instant; saw the prisoner coming out from Mr. Moss’s premises with a hoe in his hand; when he saw me he turned back and went round the barn; I went round to meet him as he came out another way, and asked him what he was doing there. I then asked him what he had done with what he had in his hand, and he said he had nothing; Charles Stone, the Liss policeman, came up, and I left the prisoner in his charge and went round the barn where I had seen prisoner go, and there I found the hoe which I now produce; I then took prisoner into custody and charged him with stealing it; he asked me if I saw him with it, and I told him yes. I then brought him to the station at Petersfield. Thomas Moss deposed to having missed the hoe from the place where he kept it, and identified that now produced as being to the best of his belief his property. The prisoner having pleaded guilty and elected to be dealt with summarily by the Bench, was sentenced to a fortnight’s imprisonment with hard labour.