The Herald of Wales. — 1887-11-12 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

THE ASSAULT ON A WOMAN AT NEATM.  Ferdinand flhimmel, waa indicted for feloniously sesaultlng one Janet Refs, at Neath Ar W. Jones, instructed by Mr Pow.,!!, prose. cuted, and Mr ;David Lewis, instructed by Mr S. T. Evans, defended. Mr Jones recapitulated the facts of the ease, and called Janet Rees, who told a similar story to that given at the police court.  She told the magistratem that the men ran away after they had beaten her. She did not speak to the men when she li&W them near Condon's publil-house. It wee not a fact that Bruggart gave her a twomhilling piece. hicllin did not kick Bruggart. She did not know what rhe mid before the magistrates, because sho was not right after they had beaten her. She had been in trouble before. She had had eight months, and one month's imprisonment for stealing and had been twice charged for solicitation. David Hely° said he remembered Saturday the 17th of October. lie was going home from Heath to Cadoxton about quarter past twelve, when he heard screams .proceeding from the bank of the canal. It wee light at the time, and he went in the direction whence they proceeded. He new the prisoner standing up, and the man Braggart with the woman. He mid "Get up," and they got up and threw him in the canal. +His wife wee in a delicate state of health at the I time, and wee confined on the following HonI day. He did not fay "Good night, Jenny."  He did not follow the men down the canal bank. lor did Janet Rees have a conversation with him.  P.C. W. Vincent Jones said that on the night o question, hearing screams of murder, he went ,o the spot whence they proceeded, and found the woman in a semi-conscious condition end pleeding front wounds on the back of the head, the hands, and elsewhere.. . . .  hir. David Ll. Davies, phyeieian and surgeon, who examined the woman the same evening, at the Heath polioe-station, said she waa at that time in a feinting condition, and while he dreased her wounds, she had to be cup. ported. Her injuriee were these, one of her wrist joints was extensively swollen, and on one of her arms was an inosied wound bleeding considerably. There was also a woand on the hack of her head, and her back, in one portion of it under the ehoulder blade, was beaten almost to • jelly. The wounds were severe and might have been caused by a walking stink. Emil Braggart, a young German, a foreman at the Cape Copper Company's Works, rdho came to this country with Schimmel some sin months ago, said that when the woman asked him he gave her some money, but Mellin followed, and while he (witness) and the woman were on the ground, acting improperly, Kollin kicked him. Schimmel came up, and a struggle ensued, during which Mellin fell twice into the canal. He did not strike the woman with the stick, but the might have been struck in the scuffle. The witness was aleo charged with Schimmel at the police court, but was discharged The judge havintr summed up, pointing to some diserepancea in the evidence, the jury returned • verdict of "not, guilty," and the prist.ner was discharged. There was a sewed indictment against Ferdinand Schimmel, who was charged jointly with Bruggart, with feloniously attempting to drown David Hurnprey Medlin, with intent to kill and murder, at Neath on the 18th. it, but Mr. Jones, accepting the previous finding of the jury, sid it was not his intention to proceed with this indictment. His Lordship approved of this course, and no evidence being given against the prisoners, they were discharged.