Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1867-01-19 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

EXTRAORDINARY DISAPPEARANCE OF A GENTLEMAN. An affair which promises to be as mysterious as the celebrated Road Murder is just now agitating the public mind in Bristol, and has been mentioned before in the papers. About a month ago a man named Charles Jones disappeared under very peculiar circumstances, and has never been seen or heard of since. The strangeness of the mysterious manner in which he has vanished leaves very little doubt but what he has been foully murdered, but up to the present time not the slightest clue has been obtained upon which the local police can go to work. Mr. Charles Jones was about eighty years of are, very short in stature, and of very slight frame. His appearance was out of the common, and such that no one could meet him in the street without taking notice of the oddity of his look and manner. He resided at Stanley House, Upper Elision, near Bristol, occupying only a part ot the house, the other part being occupied by a working man. Mr. Jones was a tailor by trade, and many years ago he went to Austrslia, where he acquired a competence. Returning to England, he took up his residence in Bristol. He is dew rifted as a man of peculiar habits, of an uncommunicative nature, and of a parsimonious disposition. He has a wife living. but they have been separated for coins time. On Wednesday, Dec. 12th, Mr. Jones had a carpenter at work upon his premises, and as the job was not completed in the evening, the letter stated that he should finish it on the next day, to which Mr. Jonesreplied that he should not be at home, as he was going to White Ladies'-road to buy some prnperty. That same even. ing he called at the Reform Tavern in Broad-street, and saw Mr. Walters, the landlord, with whom be has been on terms of great intimacy, many businesa.trans sections having taken place between them. It is Ms. tinctly alleged by several parties that he had nothing to drink there. The next night he did not return to his house, nor the night after, and the suspicions ss his friends began to be aroused. Inquiries were made in various directions, and it was found that on Thure. day afternoon he had been to the North Somersei Railway inn, in St. Philip's Marsh, kept by a man named Ramielen. This place is situated close to what is termed the Feeder, and at no distance from the New-cut, in which there is a tidal stream. Near to the premises are two or three licoe.kilns. Ramsden, in answer to inquiries, said that Jones came tilers about two o'cloi k, and remained till about a quarter past five, when he left very drunk. The servant states that he had a gold watch and chain, and it is well known that the missing gentleman wore one of the most magnificent chains ever seen, There had, it seems, been business transactions between Ram,-den and him, and he bad lent Ramsden money. Now, the landlord states that he paid Mr. Jones 3401.-10/. more than he owed him—in a mistake, on this same afternoon, in notes and gold, for which he obtained a  niceipt, or rather a pencilled male, purporting to be Charles Jones's mark. Since then no one has seen Mr. Jones. Every search has been made. rts pities have dragged the Feeder and the Cut, and searched the kilos; rewards of different amounts have been offered, but nothing has yet turned up to throw the slightest light upon this mysterious affair. It is the intention of several gentlemen to get up a memorial to the Home Secretary, asking him to offer a substantial rens, and a free pardon to any acc.onplice who may no ave actually committed the cupposed murder. Meanwhile the public mind in in a state of ferment, and the subject is the theme of conversation in every circle.  A BAD ACCOUNT from