The Herald of Wales and Monmouthshire Recorder. — 1886-08-14 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

COURT.—MONDAY. The atracisphese of the Criminal Court is • trifle parer this asswing, dire-meting indeowey no longer fills the air and in the galleries and in the body of the 0011111 are several ladies. The. fait sex. have been banished: from the judkial presence for several days, and their appearaase this. morning is an indication that the diety baskiess of the Assize is over. Illhe but case takes is a Cardiff Milting robtevy with violence, in which Charles Pox, the Quaker surgeon, who. be before been elided to, appeared as • -Mm Mr. Juane* Matthew seemed greatly ameed with the tisaranoe of the mighal friend and smis throughout his examination Dr. Fox elainted to affirm, as is castaway with those of his persuasion, and gave his evidsane an exemdiagly mild and subdued maws, and was, as his lordship remarked in a sacet hnmoarous summing up, "scrupulosity itself." The wee was a most trumpery affair,. and was scarcely a common assault. It showed, as the judge remarked, the opinion in Cardiff as to what constituted highway robbery. Justice Matthews cracked a joke at the expense of Mr. Fos the prosecuting coastal in the war That gentleman had addressed the jury, and had, in the opinioa of his lordship, asked them to return a verdict of not guilty, but should they make a mistake, and I say guilty, he hoped that his lordship would not ' sentence the pris mere. The wart was highly I amused at his lordship's interpretation of the learned counsel's address, and the jury, without a movement's hesitation returned a verdict of "Not guilty." To show his disproval of the prosecution being instituted, the Judge refused to allow the expenses of the principal witness, who was the complainant in the came. This is one of several Instances of cases which have been sent to this maize/ which never ought to have gone beyond the pollee court A considerable amount of comment is still going on anent the Cardiff Murder case. The judge, it will be remembered, sever,ly eenmired Jeans for carrying • deadly weapon with him, bat one of the public cfficiala of Cardiff, in the course of conversation, alleges that the habit of levying blackmail is common in the district in which Jeans and his sweetheart were walking, and that Jeans had once before been waylaid, and on that occasion he paid his waylayer 3, but was determined not to do so again, and accordingly purchased a revolver in order to frighten his molestors next time he encountered them. Hence the carrying of the revolver which led to fatal oonsequenaleir Jut about the same time that the murder occurred, a sergeant of the Cardiff polies form is said to have been walking out with his wihr ' along • field near that in which Carey was shot. ' It was dark at the time, and roughs., marking the direction in which they went, intercepted and surrounded them just as Mills, Carey, and their companions did with Jeans and his sweetheart. But they caught a tartar. The officer rounded on his assailants, told them who he was, and demanded their names and addresses. This was not quite what the roughs bargained for, and without more a-do they are said to have decamped, leaving the darer master of the situation, but minus the 1 names and addresses of his interceptors. Mr. Justine Grove is still occupied with '1 the colliery dispute which commenced OD Saturday, and is expected to last the best part of to-day. This evening, or at the latest tomorrow the centre of Interest will have changed from the Criminal to the Nisi Pries Court, when the action of Rake v. Wills will be heard.