Western Mail Monday June 9th 1924.
Whilst playing cricket on the Brynau Field John Rees JONES,(13).of Ivor-street, Dowlais,
found it necessary to retrieve the ball from the adjoining roadway.
As he climbed the boundary wall his right foot caught in some barbed wire, causing him to
fall heavily on a stone.
He died at the Merthyr Infirmary on Saturday.
A man was found lying unconscious on the railway line at a place called Incline Top,
between Abercynon and Quakers Yard, on Saturday.
He was taken to the Cardiff Royal Infirmary, and died later in the day. He had several
tattoo marks on him likely to lead to identification.
Later on Sunday the body was identified as that of Thomas Vaughan JONES, whose wife lives
at 53, Woodfield-terrace, Penrhiceiber.
The dead body of Elizabeth BONDFIELD 43, was taken from the Monmouthshire canal at Newport
on Saturday.
There were no marks of violence and no sign of a struggle at the spot where John MORGAN,
one of the lock-keepers, saw the body in the canal. The woman had stayed at lodging-houses
in Newport. She was seen on the canal bank the previous night.
An inquest will be held.
When William CLARKE, 23, a haulier, was charged at Pontypool on Saturday with having been
riotious; with having assaulted Mr. T.P. FRANCIS, surveyor to the Pontypool Council; and
with having done malicious damage to a motor-car and a pair of eye-glasses.Mr. FRANCIS
said defendant's horse and cart struck his mudguard. Witness spoke to CLARKE, who
later became very violent and abusive, and after making several attempts to strike
witness, eventually dealt witness a blow which blackened his eye and broke his
eye-glasses.
Mr. Harold SAUNDERS (for the defendant), said his client had been wounded in the arm, the
leg, and the head, and the last-named injury caused him to lose his head when excited. He
wished to express his regret to Mr. FRANCIS.
CLARKE was fined 10s. for the riotous behaviour, and ordered to pay 30s. costs, to include
the damage, on the other two charges. Mr. W.J. EVERETT appeared for the prosecution.
David Leonard LEWIS,38, a Pontypool butcher, who was ordered to pay 20s. costs by the
local magistrates on Saturday for having driven a motor-cycle at a speed and in a manner
dangerous to the public at Pontnewynydd, said it was not fair to ask him at what speed he
was travelling, as he was not stopped, and it was only the next day that he knew there was
any complaint against him. He had twenty years' clean licence, and travelled on an
average 10,000 miles a year.
While W. DAVIES, a motor-driver in the employ of Messrs. HANCOCKS, was making a return run
from Cowbridge to Cardiff on Sunday, the steering gear of the vehicle went wrong as he was
negotiating a sharp corner eight miles out of Cowbridge, and the vehicle ran into the
ditch. DAVIES luckily escaped with minor injuries, which, however, necessitated treatment
at the Cardiff Royal Infirmary.
Charged with cutting and wounding his wife, who declared to the court that she could not
remember how her injury had been inflicted, John HARDING 51, was discharged by the Cardiff
magistrates on Saturday.
The wife, Mary HARDING, said that at one o'clock that morning, after a night of
quarrelling, when neither of them were sober, something took place which led to her arm
being cut. What it was she did not know although she thought she might have knocked her
arm on the sharp edge of the fender.
Police-constable CLEVELAND said the woman approached him in St. Mary-street at two a.m.,
saying, "my husband has cut me with a knife."
The husband when charged, said "She threw some pepper in my face. That aggravated me,
but I did not stab her.
John Patrick