PETERSFIELD
PETTY SESSIONS, TUESDAY.—Magistrates present: Mr. J. Waddington and Major Briggs.
Transfer of Licenses.—The Railway Hotel, Petersfield, from Miss Emma Crafts to Mr. Michael Allen; and the Railway Hotel, Rowland’s Castle, from Mr. John Marghall to Mr. Henry Blake.
Matthew Bicknell, a beerhouse keeper at Horndean, appeared upon a summons to answer the charge of selling beer after prescribed hours on Sunday, the 26th ult. Fined £1 and 9s. 6d. costs.
Henry Ansell, a young man employed as a carter by Mr. G. Berry, of Langrish, was brought up charged with stealing 40lbs. weight of hay, of the value of 1s. 6d., on the 23rd of May. It appeared that Mr. Berry living at Langrish and within the Petersfield petty sessional division, a question arose which, after a consultation between the magistrates and the clerk (Mr. Soames), it was decided that the case was out of their jurisdiction, as the theft was committed at Alresford.—The magistrates, in discharging the prisoner, told him that he was liable to be re-apprehended and taken before the Alresford magistrates.
Sussex Express —Tuesday 11 June 1867
RECOVERY OF POSSESSION OF A HOUSE.— Mr. Thomas James, of Petersfield, applied for an order to recover possession of a house at Ramshill, in the parish of Sheet, in the occupation of Thomas Waller.—The order was granted.