PETERSFIELD.
PETTY SESSIONS. Tuesday.—Present : The Hon. J. J. Carnegie (Chairman) and J. Waddington, Esq.
STEALING A CLOTH JACKET.—Henry Pennicott was brought up in custody charged with stealing a cloth jacket, value 1s., the property of Edward Port, on Saturday, the 1st inst. Prosecutor had left his jacket in a hovel at the Causeway, near Petersfield, on Saturday evening last, and missed it about noon on Sunday. Between three and four on Sunday afternoon John Port, prosecutor’s nephew met prisoner in the field with the jacket under his arm, who, on being questioned, said he was going to wear it for a day or two while be got his slop washed. He was afterwards taken into custody at the Railway Station. — Sentenced to two months’ imprisonment with hard labour.
STEALING TOBACCO.—Stephen Elston was charged with stealing 2lb. of tobacco, value 7s., on Tuesday, November 27th.—Richard Budd deposed—:I am a carrier between Liss and Portsmouth. On Tuesday last as I was returning from Portsmouth I overtook prisoner at Cowplain about three o’clock in the afternoon; he walked with me to Horndean, where I stopped for a short time and gave him a glass of beer and some bread and cheese. We then walked on as far as Horndean Down, when, as he seemed tired, | gave him a lift in the cart. We rode together as far as Gravel-hill public house, when I left him im the cart while I went into the house; while I was in the house I heard my dog, which was under the cart, bark, and on going out I found the prisoner was gone, and on getting a light and examining the cart I missed a parcel containing 2lb. of tobacco, it was wrapped up in brown paper, and marked ‟Bailey, Sheet.” The paper now produced is the same, and the tobacco produced is similar to that in the parcel which I had seen put up at the shop in Portsmouth; it was the ‟best Bogle twist,” and the value is about 7s. — Thomas Dwyer deposed: I live at Greatham. I was at the Jolly Drover public-house about nine o’clock on Tuesday evening, Nov. 27th. Prisoner came in and said he had found a lot of tobacco down the road, and as he was hard up he wanted to sell it to get a bed. I gave him 6d. and a pint of beer for one roll of the tobacco, which I afterwards gave up to the police —P.C. Henry Elderfield deposed to finding prisoner at the Jolly Drover about ten o’clock and asking him if he had any tobacco about him, to which he replied ‟No;” but on searching him be found the tobacco new produced in three of his pockets. He also picked up a piece of brown paper on the floor, and on his saying what's this? prisoner replied ‟that’s the paper the tobacco was up in.” He had since weighed the tobacco and found there was 2lb. 6oz.—Prisoner pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment with hard labour
ROBBERY BY A DOMESTIC SERVANT.— Emily Pullinger, young woman about 19 years of age, was brought up under remand charged with stealing two silver tea spoons, one electro-plated dessert spoon, one salt spoon, and one knife and fork, the property of Mr. Robert Crafts, of the Red Lion Hotel.— Prisoner had lived in Mr. Craft’s service, but left in September last, and went to live in the house of Mr. Goodeve, at Greatham, and while there Miss Goodeve having some suspicion as to the girl’s honesty respecting some money that was missing, searched her box and found the articles in question, which prisoner at first said had belonged to her mother, but afterwards admitted were the property of Mr. Crafts. — Prisoner pleaded guilty —Mr. Crafts said he was very sorry to appear as prosecutor in the case, but he had felt it his duty to do so; he hoped, however, the magistrates would deal as leniently with the young woman as they could — Sentenced to three months’ imprisonment with hard labour.
ROBBERY BY TWO LADS.— Henry Doughty and Henry Sparks were charged with stealing, at Lovedean, on Monday, Nov. 26th , a pair of trowsers, a pair of boots, and a pocket handkerchief, value about £1, the property of Jonathan Jannaway. —The prisoner Sparks is the son of prosecutor’s wife by a former husband. His mother deposed that the prisoners both slept at her house on the Sunday night and left between 11 and 12 o’clock on Monday. She had been absent for an hour or two in the morning, and about half an hour after they had left she missed the things from a box upstairs —P.C. Grant went in pursuit of the prisoners and found them at the Jolly Sailor near Petersfield, with the property in their possession — Sparks’s mother pleaded very earnestly for the magistrates to forgive her son, as it was the first time he had been in any trouble of this kind, and stated that he had worked for Mr Gale, of Horndean, for seven years, and had always borne a good character —George Sparks (prisoner’s uncle) also begged the magistrates to deal leniently with him, stating that he (prisoner) had received a violent kick from a horse eight or nine years ago, by which his skull was injured, and he had never been quite right in his head since.—The other prisoner was a discharged sailor, and he produced a first-class character from the captain of the ship in which he had served.—Both prisoners were convicted and sentenced to 14 days’ imprisonment with hard labor.