PETERSFIELD.
At the Petty Sessions, on Tuesday, present Hon. J. J. Carnegie (Chairman), R. Steele, Esq., Sir W. Knighton, and J. Martineau, Esq.,
— ⎯ Martin, of Horndean, applied for a Licence to Sell Game; deferred till next bench day, to afford time for giving the requisite notice to each Justice of the Peace within the District.
— John Tusker, William Ryder, and Robert Ryder, three boys from Sheet, were convicted of stealing fruit on Sunday evening last, from the garden of J. Light, Esq., at Westmark. Mr. Light requested the Magistrates to deal leniently with the case, as his only object was to show these boys and others through them, that they were not to commit these depredations with impunity. The bench acting upon Mr. Light's suggestion, dismissed the boys with an admonition, on payment of costs, 2s. each.
— Edward Jones, John Jones, John Neale, and Richard Robinson, were brought up charged on the information of P.C. Perkins, 204, with attempting to pass a counterfeit half-crown, at the Wheat Sheaf, Liphook. In the absence of a material witness, the prisoners were remanded to Monday next. They appealed to the Bench against being reconsigned for so long a period to the damp cells of the present station. The chairman admitted the reasonableness of the appeal, and observed that the cells were certainly very unfit for so lengthened a detention, and after some consultation, the Bench decided on sending the prisoners to Winchester jail for the term of the remand. The new Police Station which is in course of erection, will, when available, obviate the necessity of incurring such an expense, but in the present case there appeared no other alternative, as a week’s confinement in these miserable lock-ups, previous to conviction, would have been manifestly unjust.
— John Merritt charged Elizabeth Holdaway and Ann Holdaway, with assaulting him on the evening of Saturday, the 17th inst. —The parties live near Horndean. Defendants were respectively the mother and sister of complainant’s wife. It appears from the evidence, that complainant went home on the evening in question, rather ‟drinky,” as one of the witnesses expressed it, and he himself admitted that he was not ‟downright” sober; a ‟skrimmage” ensued between him and his wife, in the course of which he tore off a portion of her clothes and otherwise maltreated her. The defendants came to the rescue, and mauled complainant pretty considerably, and Ann threw a brick at him, which struck him on the head. and this was the specifie assault complained of. Defendants were adjudged to pay the costs, 3s. 6d. each. Complainant having paid the like sum for, the summonses, and the Chairman strongly urged the whole party to shake hands and endeavour to live together more peacably for the future.