3 January 1928: At the Southampton General Quarter Sessions before Sir Henry Strother Cautley, Bart, K.C., M.P., chairman, the Right Hon. Sir Arthur Greer, deputy chairman, and other justices, holden at the County Hall, Lewes: Sir Edward Boyle, bart, Ockham, Salehurst, Sussex, high sheriff; Arthur W. Farndell, esquire, 87 High Street, Lewes and 24 Bedford Row, London W.C.1, under sheriff; Walter Charles Stephenson Chapman, esquire, 24 Bedford Row, London W.C.1, deputy sheriff; Hugh T. McIlveen, esq., County Hall, Lewes, clerk of the peace; E. Winter, governor, His Majesty’s Prison, Portsmouth. Prisoner: Horatio William Cracknell, aged 45, builder. Committed from Hove Borough, 12 December 1927. Bailed at court 12 December 1927. Offence: On 7 November 1927 at Hove by false pretences obtaining 1 bag of cement and half a yard of beach the property of Pepper & Son. Tried before Sir H. S. Cautley, bart, K.C., M.P., 3 January 1928. Verdict: Not guilty. Order of the Court: Discharged. Prisoner: John Harding Thompson, aged 31, wholesale tobacconist. Committed from Hove Borough, 15 December 1927. Bailed at Court: 15 December 1927. Offence: On 4 December 1927, at Hove, unlawfully was drunk while in charge of a motor car on a highway. Tried before Sir H. S. Cautley, bart, K.C., M.P., 3 January 1928. Verdict: Not guilty. Order of the Court: Discharged.
5 January 1928: West Sussex: At the Chichester General Quarter Sessions before William Percival Gratwicke Boxall, esquire, K.C., chairman; Frederick Temple Barrington-Ward, esquire, K.C., deputy chairman, holden at the Court House, Chichester. Sir Edward Boyke, bart, Ockham, Salehurst, Sussex, high sheriff; Arthur W. Farndell, esquire, 87 High Street, Lewes, and 24 Bedford Row, London W.C.1, under sheriff; Walter Charles Stephenson Chapman, esquire, 24 Bedford Row, London W.C.1, deputy sheriff; S. Thornely, County Hall, Chichester, clerk of the peace; E. Winter, governor, His Majesty’s Prison, Portsmouth. Prisoner: Irene Wilson, aged 20, factory hand. Previous conviction: Bound over, Petty Sessions, Hove Borough, 20 October 1927 (larceny). Committed from Shoreham-by-Sea, 12 December 1927 (on remand). Offence: In the night of 8 December 1927, at Lancing, burglariously breaking and entering the dwelling house of Ernest Howard Rollings and stealing 1 bottle of rum the property of Potter, Barley & Co., Ltd. Tried before F. T. Barrington Ward, esquire, K.C., 5 January 1928. Plea: Guilty. Order of the Court: Bound over in £5 (with 2 sureties in £5 each) to come up for judgment within 12 calendar months (Probation of Offenders Acts).