Petersfield.
PETTY SESSIONS, September 13th.
Present Hon. J. J. Carnegie (Chairman), Sir J. C. Jervoise, Bart., M.P., J. Waddington, Esq., and Major Briggs.
RENEWAL OF LICENCES.
Mr. Hedger, constable, having omitted to deliver the required notices for the attendance of parties within his district on the last bench day, applications were consequently made for the renewal of licences for The Seven Stars, Steep, kept by Edmund Harris, and also for The Sun, at Privett, kept by Charles Parr, both of which were granted.
Thomas Fanshaw of the George public-house, Petersfield, the granting of whose licence was adjourned in consequence of his not appearing at the last bench, was, upon his personal application this day, granted.
APPLICATION FOR A SPIRIT LICENSE.
William White, keeper of a beer-house in the parish of Colemore, whose application for a spirit licence at the last meeting, was adjourned for the production of witnesses in furtherance of the same to this day, but none such appearing the licence was refused.
ASSAULT CASE.
George Winter, of the Half Moon, Sheet, was charged by Eliza Bailey, wife of Mr. Bailey, of the Queen’s Head, with an assault.
Complainant deposed—I went to Winter’s to seek a man owing me a debt. The time was 20 minutes past 9 ’lock at night. Mr. Callow was with me, he went into the Half Moon to call Tussler out. Winter came out and said, ‟No listeners under my window;” he then gave me a push and pushed me down and injured my elbow and shoulder. I was standing in the turnpike-road outside his door.
By defendant—I did not say it was a lowlife house and I would not go where there was such a set. I was not asked to move away from the window shutter. I did not lean against the window shutter.
John Callow examined, said—I live at Sheet. I was at Bailey’s and was asked to go to the Half Moon. William Budd came out of the house and said Tussler was inside, and he came out. Winter then came out of his house and said, ‟I will have no listeners at my window,” he then pushed Mrs. Bailey with his right hand, and she fell in the road. She was half a yard from the window shutter.
By defendant—Mrs. Bailey was quite sober, and might have been there half-an-hour.
Defendant said he had acted in self-defence, and considered she was on his premises, and it was his duty to put her off, and called Thomas Voakes, who deposed to living any where but, was losing at the Half Moon on the 23rd of August, when Tussler had a pint of ale. About 9 o’clock Mrs. Bailey came down and had half a quartern of brandy outside the door. Mrs. Bailey positively denied drinking any of the brandy and said she could produce the person who drank it. Winter and his wife persuaded Tussler to pay Mrs. Bailey. Tussler would not and Mrs. Bailey tore his frock. He (witness) then went in doors.
The assault was proved, and defendant adjudged to pay 2s. 6d. and 7s. 6d. costs.
Hampshire Telegraph — Saturday 17 September 1864
PETERSFIELD.
Agent—Mr. G. DUPLOCK.
PETTY SESSIONS,—Tuesday.—Present Hon. J. J. Carnegie (Chairman), Sir J. Clarke Jervoise, Bart., M.P., Major Briggs, and J. Waddington, Esq.
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Eliza Bailey v. George Winter—This was an assault case from Sheet. Complainant deposed that on the evening of the 23rd of August, about 20 minutes past nine o’clock, she went to the defendant’s house, the Half-Moon, to seek for a man named James Tusler who owed her a debt, and who she believed was about to leave the neighbourhood, she took Mr. Callow with her and went into the Half-Moon to call Tusler out. While she (complainant) was standing outside close to the window shutter, defendant came out and said ‟I’ll have no listeners under my windows,” and pushed her down, hurting her elbow and shoulder. Cross-examined by defendant: I did not say yours was a low- lived house, I said I had never been in and could not go there with such a low-lived set. You did not ask me three times to remove from the shutter.—John Callow deposed to accompanying Mrs. Bailey to the Half-Moon to seek for Tusler; Mrs. Bailey was near the window shutter, perhaps half a yard from it, when Mr. Winter came out and said he would have no listeners under his window and pushed her with his right hand, when she fell in the road.—Cross-examined by defendant—Mrs. Bailey was quite sober, she might have been at the window half an hour. This being the complainant’s case, the chairman strongly urged upon the parties to retire and see if they could not come to some arrangement, Mrs. Bailey expressed her willingness to do,| but said she must first consult her husband, and on Mr. Bailey being called forward he very decidedly objected to any compromise whatever, and so the case proceeded. Mr. Winter, upon being called on for his defence, said that Mrs. Bailey came to his house and made a great disturbance about Tusler, and he felt it to be his duty to put her away, but he had no intention to push her down, he called Thomas Vokes, who on being asked where he lived, said he lived all over the world, but he happened to be lodging at the Half Moon. On the 23rd of August Mrs. Bailey came there and had half a quartern of brandy outside of the door, (Mrs. Bailey interrupting, emphatically denied drinking any of the brandy, and said she could produce the person, as witness, who drank it), James Tusler was there and Mrs. Bailey took him by the collar of his frock, and wanted him to go home with her and pay his bill, he would not, and she tore his frock over his head. He (witness) went indoors and saw nothing of the assault. The magistrates having consulted, the chairman said there could be no doubt that in point of law an assault had been committed, and, therefore, there must be a conviction, but if complainant was there listening at the window and persisted in doing so it was an odious thing, and under all the circumstances of the case defendant was adjudged to pay a fine of 2s. 6d. with costs 7s. 6d.