Petty Sessions – Yesterday (Wednesday)
(Before Mr. A. Motion in the chair; and Messrs. E. Parkes, W. J. Weld and J. Lean.)
Alleged Theft
Herbert Chilton, general dealer, Banbury, and George Prentice, labourer, were summoned for stealing at Avon Dassett on the 9th October, ½ cwt of wood, value 1s. the property of Thomas Fleming of Gaydon. P. C. White said he saw the defendants in a cart coming along and stop and fetch the wood from a pile on the Banbury Road. Prentice went to the wood pile twice and fetched two armfuls and put it in Chilton’s cart and cover it over with sacks. He stopped them and asked Chilton if he had permission to touch the wood. He said, ‘No, I may as well tell the truth.’ Chilton pleaded not guilty and Prentice guilty. Mr. Fleming said the County Council surveyor, Mr. Thompson, gave him leave to stack the wood on the road. Mr. Motion said he considered it wrong to tempt any poor man by putting wood there. Defendants were fined 10s each.
Multum in Parvo
Edwin Spencer, farmer, Radway was fined 2s 6d. for not having a rear light on his trap at Kineton
Ernest Henry Carp, Leamington, was fined 10s for not having a rear light on a motor van at Kineton
Albert Spencer, farmer, Bishops Itchington, was fined 5s for not having a light on his trap at Gaydon, and 15s for being drunk and disorderly
Arthur Olds, Gaydon, was fined 2s 6d. for a like offence in company with Spencer
Neville Styles, Tysoe, carpenter, was fined 2s 6d. for having no light on his bicycle at Shotteswell
Edward Landsbury, farmer, was fined 2s 6d. for not having a rear light on a float at Kineton
Thomas Wood, labourer, Whatcote, was fined 2s 6d. for having no light on his cart at Oxhill
Harriet Brisker, Gaydon, was fined 2s 6d for an unlighted bicycle at Shotteswell