PETERSFIELD.
Agent—Miss DUPLOCK.
PETTY SESSIONS, TUESDAY.—Present J. Waddington, Esq.
There was very little business to be transacted. One case, requiring the presence of two magistrates, was adjourned to next Bench day; another was remanded for three days, to afford time for completing the evidence.
— The only case heard was that of William Mant, who was brought up under a warrant, charged with trespassing in the daytime in search of game on land belonging to her Majesty, situated in the parish of Bramshott.—Robert Graham deposed as follows: I am one of the warders of Woolmer Forest. On Thursday, the 12th April last, I was going through Lynchborough enclosure, in the parish of Bramshott, about two o'clock in the afternoon, when I saw William Mant, in company with Moses Woods, coming out of the enclosure. When they got three or four yards outside of the fence Mant began beating the bushes and turning them over with his foot. There is no road there. They were between the enclosure and a stream of water. I looked at him for a few minutes; his back was towards me, but when he looked round and saw me he immediately made off towards the Home hills, where I lost sight of him. I did not speak to him then, but on Saturday, the 14th, I saw him and Woods together again, and told him he was in the Crown lands on Thursday, the 12th. He said he was not there. There are some pheasants about the spot where I saw him beating. I reported the case to the principal warder.—Prisoner, in his defence, denied having been on the spot at the time, but the last witness swore positively to is identity, and stated that he was not more than ten yards from him.—Proof of two former convictions were produced, and prisoner was adjudged to pay a fine of 1s. and 7s. 6d. costs, or go to prison for three weeks; he was allowed one week to pay the money.
— Moses Woods had also been summoned to answer a like charge, but he did not appear, and the case was not gone into.