PETERSFIELD.
Agent—Miss DUPLOCK.
PETTY SESSIONS, TUESDAY.—Present: Hon. J. J. Carnegie (Chairman), G. Forbes and J. Waddington, Esqrs.
— James Primmer was charged, on the infomation of George Hobbs, with setting a wire to catch a hare; on the 9th instant, in the parish of Blendworth. George Hobbs, on being sworn, deposed as follows:—I am gamekeeper to Sir William Knighton; was watching a wire on the 9th of this month; about four o’clock in the morning the wire was knocked down. James Primmer came about five minutes before seven and set it properly for a hare. I went and spoke to him; he denied it at first, but when I told him where I was laid up, he owned it, and said he did it to prevent the hares from eating the cabbages. The wire was set in a quick hedge between the field and an allotment ground; it was set on the allotment side, Defendant admitted setting the wire, but said the hares had destroyed everything in his father’s garden, and he did it to prevent them. Defendant having been convicted in May last of taking pheasants’ eggs, was adjudged to pay a penalty of 1l. and 7s. 6d. costs, or 21 days’ imprisonment with hard labour. The money was paid.
— George Pratt was charged by P.C. Godfrey with being drunk, on the 9th instant, in the parish of Blendworth. Fined 5s.