Western Mail Wednesday April 7th 1926.
David Henry WELLINGTON (31), tin-worker, and Emlyn Thomas HANFORD (21) tin-worker, both of
Taibach, were bound over on a charge of stealing 1s.8d. in coppers, and other articles,
the property of Antonio MORRUZZI.
Mr. Frank DAVIES (instructed by Mr. Pryce JONES, Port Talbot) prosecuted and Mr. Trevor
HUNTER (instructed) by Mr. David PARKINS, Port Talbot, defended.
The court adjourned until 10.45 this (Wednesday) morning.
John EDWARDS 31, miner, pleaded guilty to breaking into the lock-up shop of Cynllais David
LAKE, at Ystradgynlais, on the night of February 5 and stealing nine watches.
Mr. A. Jestyn JEFFREY'S (Neath) appeared for the prosecution. Prisoner was sent to
gaol for a month.
Frederick Robert SCOTT 22, ship's fireman, pleaded guilty to breaking into the house
of David Cyril RICHARDS at Llanafanfawr on Feb. 15 and stealing two watches, two rings,
and a razor, and also to breaking into the house of David Morgan JONES, at Llanafanfawr on
Feb. 18 and stealing a Burberry coat.
Mr. H. Vaughan VAUGHAN, Builth Wells, prosecuted. Prisoner was sentenced to a month's
imprisonment.
Thomas William THOMAS, 30, tin-worker, of Neath Abbey, pleaded "Not guilty" to
maliciously inflicting grievious bodily harm upon Albert BRAY, also of Neath Abbey, on
February 26.
Mr. Jenkin JONES (instructed by Mr. KEMPTHORNE), prosecuted and Mr. Frank DAVIES
(instructed by Mr. LEYSHON, Neath) defended.
Mr. Jenkin JONES said the two men lived opposite each other in Neath Abbey. On the date in
question, when Bray returned home from Swansea, his wife made a complaint to him
respecting the prisoner. BRAY thereupon went to prisoner for an explanation, and, it was
alleged, prisoner caught BRAY around the neck. BRAY felt a jab on the forehead and he
became dazed. Mrs. BRAY, who had followed her husband out, alleged that she saw the
prisoner use a knife.
THOMAS, in the box, denied using a knife. BRAY broke a window in the house, and he
(defendant) suggested that BRAY got his injury through striking his head against the clamp
holding a water-pipe.
The jury found prisoner guilty of common assault, and he was bound over for six months in
the sum of £5.
The burial took place on Tuesday in Cardiff Cemetery of Mr. Walter LEWIS, of 4,
Connaught-road, Cardiff, formerly goods superintendent under the Great Western Railway
Company at Cardiff. The Rev. Oswald BENTON. B.A., officiated at the house and at the
cemetery. The chief mourners were Messrs. Frank LEWIS (son), Guy BOMFORD (son-in-law), and
A. ORPET and Harry HUDSON (brothers-in-law).
Others present were Messrs. W. PACKMAN, R. BOOTH, W.H. BENNETT, John EVANS (assistant
superintendent G.W.R. Cardiff), W.M. THOMAS, (chief clerk G.W.R. Cardiff), T.W. JEFFRIES,
L.J. ANTHONY, Tom ROBERTS, Dr. H. COOK, Messrs. C. STRIDE, Dan THOMAS, W.M. REES. The
bearers were Messrs. D.J. SKELLY, A.E. MUNDAY, J.S. DAVIES, T.B. DAVIES, E.J. STOCKWELL,
and A.G. JONES, of the Cardiff Goods Department Staff.
The internment took place in the Trealaw Cemetery on Tuesday of Mrs. Margaretta Mildred
LADD, wife of Mr L. LADD, photographer, Tonypandy. Services were conducted both at the
house and graveside by the Revs. T. Llewellyn JONES, pastor of Bethel English Baptist
Church, Tonypandy; Samuel JONES, Gabalfa, Cardiff and J. Howard JOHN, B.A., Castleton.
The deacons of Bethel English Baptist Church acted as bearers.
The chief mourners were Mr. L. LADD (husband), Miss Winnie LADD (daughter), Mr. Jack
JAMES; Mrs. Jack BAILEY, Newport (sister); Mr. W. LEY, Newport (brother-in-law); Mr. J.B.
LADD, Glyncorrwg (brother-in-law) and Mrs. LADD; Mrs. B. EVANS, Cardiff (sister-in-law);
Mr. H. LADD, Mountain Ash (uncle); Mrs. EDWARDS, Fishguard (aunt); Mrs. J. MATTHEWS,
Tonyrefail (aunt); Mrs. Martha BOWEN, Porth (aunt); Miss Daisy BAILEY, Miss Gwenny LEY,
and Miss Elsie BOWEN, Newport (nieces); Mrs. D. MORETON, Troedyrhiw; Mr. J. LADD, Clydach
Vale; Mr. Cyril LADD, Clydach Vale; Mr. J. LADD, Gelligaer; and Mr. Emlyn BOWEN, Porth
(cousins).
There were many beautiful floral tributes, including one from the South Wales
Professionsal Photographers' Association, and another from the Garrick Dramatic
Society, Mid-Rhondda.
John Patrick.