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Bargoed Journal. — 1904-12-03 (Gelligaer, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

PGLICE CDUP.r.  On Wednesday, before the Stipendiary (Mr. J. Ignatius Williams) Mr. J.Roberts, Mr. W. H. Gronow, Dr. E. N. Davies, Mr. Edward Edwards. and Mr. H. M. Gregory. iK.4141 Drunk and Assaulting the Pollee.  A haulier named James O'Leary. of Graig Terrace. Pontypridd, was charged with being drunk and disorderly and assaulting the police.  Police-constable Merritt, stated that he heard the defendant making use of filthy language and children were present at the time. He (witness) spoke to defendant about it and he became abusive and stepped back, then he rushed at witness and struck him on the ,thigh causing a bruise. Witness then closed with defendant when Inspector Salter arrived on the scene and assisted in taking the prisoner to the Police Station.  Previous Convictions having been proved against prisoner he was sentenced to three months' imprisonment. Supplying a Blacklister.  The landlord of the Wheat Sheaf Inn, Pontypridd (Mr. Thomas Jenkins) was summoned for supplying intoxicants to a Blacklister named Margaret Morgan. Mr. James Phillip, who defended, said that in order to obtain a conviction under the Act it was necessary to prove that the defendant supplied a blacklister knowingly. This contention was upheld by the , Bench and the case was dismissed. Tired of Lite.  A collier named Nathaniel Bowen, 28 years of age, and living in Graig Street, Pontypridd, was charged with attempting to commit suicide. William Davies stated that• when he was coming down Graig Street he saw defendant fall down and when he approached he noticed that there was a gash in defendant's throat and the latter remarked, " [-wish I had done it. I will do it again if I have the chance." Police-constable Spitler also gave evidence, and said that when he saw the prisoner he was being held down by four men in the street. He was very violent, and upon the witness examining him he found a gash about 3 inches long in the throat. Defendant remarked, " I wish the vow- had been sharp enough, but I will do it again." Defendant told the Bench that he had had a tit and was full of them all day. He was remanded in custody for a week.
Bargoed Journal. — 1908-01-02 (Gelligaer, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

WELSH BP.OTH. A A happy New Year to fric:lal alid foe.  —:o:  The height of meanness was diqlayed ii Bargoed last Thursday when thief stole the cash-till of Mrs. Wells (a widow) of Greenfield. About L 3 was taken.  —:0: Dd. Arthur, a labourer, of Heng°oed, was shockingly burnt during the holidays. Whilst masquerading as Father Christmas his red cloak crught fire. He was detained at Merthyr Union Infirmary.  —:o:  Vivian Peal Hancock, daughter of Thomas Hancock, of Pengam Road, Aberbargoed, took advantage of her parents' absence last Saturday and tri,d to boil a tin of paraffin On the fire. George French a little later found her shockingly burnt and despite attention by Dr. Caldwell she expired.  Police-constable John Thomas made al clever arrest at Bargoed on Tuesday. I Arthur Cooper, a Pengam labourer, was! , released at the Quarter Sessions on that day where he was charged with attempting suicide, but the officer asked him to come to Bargoed and then held him for a charge of being a deserter from the Welsh Regiment.  —:o:  Bargoed Orchestral Society memebrs have decided to produce a book entitled " Phyllis" at the Town Hall in April. It will be equal in all respects to the " Wreck of the Argosy."  —:o:  We hope the printing will be kept in the town.  —:o:  Mr. Felix Davies-this week embalmed the body of a Rhondda lady, who died at the Penybank isolation hospital from typhoid.  -:0:-- Little Beatrice Williams, the child burnt on Monday at her home in North Road, Bargoed, died the following day. The inquest will appear in our next issue.  —co:—  Spaie the rod and spoil the carpet. —:o:  Heart on a Bargoed football field : " Hey! kick that empty nut off the  field." " Where is it ?" asked the player. "Under your cap,". was the reply. —:o:  Northern Unionism is spreading to Bargoed and Caerphilly.  —:0:— Mary had a little hen— 'Twas feminine and queer ; It laid right well when eggs were cheap, But stopped when eggs were dear.  ---:o:-- " I don't know where the workhouse is or I would go there," said a beggar to a Bargoed tradesman. " If you had to pay rates in Gelligaer you would find it," was the retort.  —:o:
Bargoed Journal. — 1906-06-21 (Gelligaer, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

FLEUR-DE-LIS NOTES. i  A pair of opera glasses are all right in their place such as a theatre, music or large concert hall, but a gentleman in the Fleur seems to think they should be used in no other place than those mentioned. It used to be a matter of wonder to him how his good wife got to .kuow of his whereabouts until he re"red home unexpectedly one day last .week and discovered his good lady scannii* the horizon in a vain search for her lord and master. We hear that a pair of opera glasses are now for sale cheap.  turned  —:o:  Poor old chipped potatoes is in ' trouble. A valuable pony that used to draw his cart laden with the above succulent dainties has mysteriouslydisappeared and is now labelled lost, stolen, or strayed. One gentleman gave as his opinion that the pony had committed suicide, seeing the state of the weather and not wishing to live a life of ease at his devoted master's expense, while another expressed his view of the matter by saying that the pony had wandered away to one of the adjacent mountains, there to remain rent free until the cold weather came again, when it would return to follow his old employment. Poor old chips is inconsolable. That pony, he remarked, knew every customer on the road and seemed to treat a threepenny customer with more respect than a penny customer. However that may be, we hope to hear of his pony's speedy return home to cheer his master's heart. As there is a substantial reward offered, this seems very probable.  —:o:  The " Journal " can be obtained at Mr. G. Wilcox, Fleur-de-lis, every Friday. Mr. Wilcox has not given up repairing footwear. He has built a repairing depot at the back of his premises and converted the former into a newsagent's.
Bargoed Journal. — 1906-04-05 (Gelligaer, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

RHYMNEY.  Suicide at Bute Town.  The Inquest.  At the Windsor Hotel, Butetown, on Wednesday, Mr. R. J. Rhys, the District Coroner, held an inquest on the body of Edward Thomas, a widower, of Main Road, who committed suicide as already reported. The first witness called was Sarah Jane Thomas, who said deceased was her father. He was 44 years of age. He had last worked a fortnight ago. He generally slept upstairs. She left him downstairs at 11 o'clock onTuesday night when she went to bed. He appeared then in his usual health. She did not. know of anything which was troubling him.  John Thomas, a son, said that at 5.29 he found his father on the floor in the back kitchen. He was stretched out full length. He had been lowspirited in consequence of losing a great deal of time. His mother was buried about two years ago. The razor produced was generally kept downstairs. Police-sergeant Gammon stated that he arrived at the house at 7 a.m. on the Wednesday morning. The body was on is tight side and the razor was near the left hand. There was a deal of blood on the floor and the windpipe had been cut through. In the trousers pocket was fount a slip of paper and on it, written in pencil. was, " I can't bear it any longer; all the fault is on me, not on my wife or the children."  Dr. G. S. husband, an assistant with Dr. Redwood, said he reached the house about 8 a.m. He described the wound. The larger arteries had not been cut through. He corrobotated the evidence of Police-sergeant Gammon as to the man being low spirited. The jury returned a verdict that the deceased committed suicide during a fit of temporary insanity.  HOW 15 YOUR WATCH RUNNING ? Is it alwayA fast or slow? Never quite on tune? Perhaps the watch is eaPable of very accurate running. but it is not is perfect order. You know the tiny mechanism of a watch aleuilutely demands that eaqii of the floz mis of little parts— epringe, ete.—he just right, or good timing is out of the question Watch and Clock Repairing has always been a speciality of ours, to do the be work at lowest possible price,  GU JONEb,  PRACTICAL WATCHMAKER' AND JEWELLER, Hanbury Road, Bargoed. 5,003 Wat;hes Wanted to Clealls  eilliTh • i 4--1 A4S7 11 'l'. /7,;'4,1 s • - :, • 0 ‘`"a' ' #.",' A)) k ( I 1 ....34'..":1/ . N„, ~,, , W 4 '• ' _ ~.. ,* . ...-,^ ~.... • ••- ----....A? :Afire'
Bargoed Journal. — 1906-04-05 (Gelligaer, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

PONTYPRIDD POLICE COURT.  On Wednesday, before the Stipendiary (Mr. Arthur Lewis) and Mr. T. B. Evans. Destitution leads to Attempted Suicide._  Bose Goodman, a married woman, of CHtynydd, wee charged with having attempted to commit muicicle.  From the evidence of John Martin. a collier, of 17, Oak Street, Ferndale, it appeared that about 7.30 p.m. on the 24th inst. he WWI standing near the Queen's Hotel, Pontypridd, when he heard screams. He ran tilthe canal bank and ou looking into the water he saw a woman's head. Witness leaned on the bank and caught hold of the defendant by the hair and held her head above water until assistance arrived. Defendant struggled and expressed a wish to go back into the water. She was conveyed to the Queen's Hotel and on the way there stated that it was.all through her husband. . .  The husband, Janes Goodman, a labourer, of Hopkinstown, said that be and his wife came to Pontypridd from Bristol in 1904. On the sth inst. she left him and went to live with a man named Jackson. Witness met her on the 22nd of March in Mill Street and promised to meet her on the following Saturday. She then asked him for some money and he told her that he had no money or food. Defendant then threatened to jump into the canal, and had on several occasions threatened to cut her throat.  Defendant told the Bench that she left her husband because of his cruelty. Her husband had spoken to her and asked her to return to him as he had missed her very much. She left the man Jackson and went back to her husband, but he turned her out and left her destitute and starving.rShe had to turn out of her lodgings that .evening and had nowhere to go. ' • "  Police-constable Davies said froin information received he visited the Queen's Hotel and there saw the defendant. She was wet from head to foot. He conveyed her to the Police Station.  Dr. Howard Davies wa.s called to the court and after an examination of fifteen minutes gave it as his opinion that the defendant was of sound mind.  Defendant wan remanded to the-Workhouse for seven days pending further medical enquiries.tg Chimneys on Ma _ . . . .  For allowing their -chimneys to be set on fire Isaac Carter, Norton Bridge, and Harry Langley, of Hopkinstovrn, were fined 28. 6d. each.  Drunks.  The following persons were fined for being drunk ;—l...ewis Mainwaring, 'oilier, Hafod, 10s. ; James Harrington, Abercynon, collier, 10s. and coats; Henry Weeks, collier, Pontypridd, 10e. ; Catherine Flood, married, Treforest, 103. and costs; E. Powell, labourer, Cilfynydd, 10s. ; Sarah Morris, 20e.; Frederick Rossiter, labourer, •21 days; and Elizabeth Mallaband, widow, Ynysybwl, ss.  Sunday Drinking. For being on licensed premises during prohibited hours, Samuel Colton, Aber; Fred Challenger, Hafod; Wm. Jones, Hafod ; Wm. Reed, Forth, and Wm. King, Forth, were each fined 15s. The first three were found drinking at the Railway Inn on Sunday, March 18th, and the latter two at the King's Head.  Printir g  e'r.er.ply ENcvuted at this Office
Bargoed Journal. — 1906-04-26 (Gelligaer, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

PORTH SHOOTING MYSTERY.  Verdlet of Suicide No Motive Disclosed. Mr. E. B. Reece, held an inquest at the Town Hall, Cardiff. on Wednesday, on the body of John Howells, an ex-publican, of Porth. who died in the Cardiff Infirmary from the effects of a shot wound in the head. Deceased's son, John Howells, of Woodland Villa, Porth, said his father was 45 last birthday, and was a retired publican. having been in business at Troedyrhiw. On the day previous deceased was found in the downstairs lavatory bleeding from the head, with a revolver lying by. He was brought to the Cardiff Infirmary by the doctor's orders. Witness said to his father when the discovery was made, "Are you coming into the house V Deceased replied, "Go into the house." The revolver had been a long time 'in deceased's possession. The litter was of sober habits; nothing had happened to vex or worry him. He had not been in any way strange, though he felt acutely the death of his wife last Boxing Day. Police-constable Jenkins, who was the next witness, said that when Dr. Price asked deceased why he shot himself he replied that he had not shot himself at all, but had hit his head against tha wall. Witness himself asked, "why did you fire the revolver f" and deceased said, "I didn't fire it at all." Witness picked up a bullet which he found on the floor in a pool of blood. He produced the revolver. Three of the six chambers had been discharged. Dr. Watkins, Cardiff Infirmary, said the bullet entered on the right side of the head and catne out above the left eye. An operation was performed to remove a blood clot.  The jury found that deceased shot himself and that there was not sufficient evidence to show hi state of mind at the time.
Bargoed Journal. — 1906-03-15 (Gelligaer, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

FLEUR-DE-LIS NOTES.  On Wednesday evening last, a very pleasant social evening was spent by the teachers and a select number of friends at the Council Schools here. Mr. Thomas, of Gilfach, was master of ceremonies and fulfilled his duties (as he always does) with credit to himself and to the enjoyment of the guests. Mr. Hollifield, as pianist, is too well known in this district to need any praise for his manipulation of the dominos not only for the excellent time he keeps but also for his new and catchy selections. We must not overlook the ladies who attended to the inner man. Dancing creates thirst and the following ladies very kindly assisted at the tables and dispensed tea and other refreshments to the visitors :—The Misses Morgans, Maesycwmmer ; Miss D. Williams, Maesycwmmer ; and Miss M. Perkins, Fleur-de-lis. The party broke up at about 11.30 p.m. after what some of the visitors rightly described as a glorious evening.  —:o:  There should be no savage breasts in Fleur-de-lis if the quotation, " Music hath charms, etc.," is correct. We have a brass band, a string band, a young ladies' choir, a children's choir, and a united choir, consisting of all and sundry. It is pleasing to note the fact that no denominational controversies mar the harmony of their frequent rehearsals.  —:o:  It is rumoured that the cantata, " Snow White," will be re-produced very shortly. The Fleur-de-lis note taker says, roll on the time.  —:o:  There ought to be a law authorising the arrest and subsequent punishment of any young lady who is guilty of having more than one string to her bow. At least that is what a gentleman remarked the other evening. It would seem that the young lady referred to came daily from a neighbouring village to the Council Schools here to teach the young and rising generation the three " R's." On some of the evenings in the week she would allow the gent from Fleur-de-lis to see her home. On other evenings she had a gentleman from her own village to come to meet her. This is very sad. Never mind, disappointed. Don't forget about the old saying, " As good fish in the sea," and also that there are three women to every man. That will distract your thoughts from suicide or any other silly idea.
The Manchester Examiner. — 1848-07-11 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

DETERMINED SUICIDE. -On Saturday morning, about half-past ten, a singular act of suicide was committed in the ornamental water of St. James's Park, by a respectable married woman, who was walking round the banks with her husband. The party's name is Clements, and they lived at 24, Cowper-street, City Road, where he is a type founder. They had, it seems, some quarrel, which he considered of no consequence, when she suddenly got Ober one of the hurdles, which was placed for confining the sheep, and plunged into the water. Mr. Clements was much alarmed at seeing that she instantly sank, for the water is very deep at the spot, and he went in after her, but much time elapsed before he succeeded in getting hold of her, and she was then quite insensible. She was taken at once to the Westminster Hospital, and had the most unremitting attention from the resident medical officer, but it was of no avail, life was quite extinct. The husband remains in the hospital from the effects of the immersion.  CHORLTON ThrioN.-Return, showing the number of cases of poor relieved in money and kind, week ending the 6th day oT July, 1848, and corresponding week last year. Relief to poor residing in and belonging to the union, Mr. Armitt, relieving officer :-Number of cases, 656,.relief in money and kind, £9l. 9s. 3d.; last week, 685, £99. 6s. 3d.; corresponding week last year, 522, £76. 6s. 2d. Relief to casual and irremovable poor, Mr. Brown, relieving officer :-Number of cases, 619, relief in money and kind, £B9. is. 2d.; last week, 699, £lO2. 17s. 9d.; corresponding week last year, 633, £BB. 12s. id. Number of inmates in the workhouse, 494; last week, 494; corresponding week last year, 507. Number of poor working on Moss Farm, 24, cost, £6. 3s. 5d.; last week, 35, £9. 10s. 3d.; corresponding week last year, 85, £26. 9s. Number working at the Chester-street oakum establishment, 74, relief, £lB. 18s. 10d. ; last week, 73, £2O. 15s. 2d. Number of orders given by relieving officers, 20; presented for admission, ii; refused to go, 9. This relief and these cases are included in the relieving officers' statements.
The Manchester Examiner. — 1848-01-04 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

AWFUL SUICIDE IN NEWCASTLE, COUNTY LIMERICK.—A damp was thrown on the features of Christmas in our little town by the melancholy circumstance of a soldier of the detachment of the 88th, stationed here, baVing committed suicide by shooting himself, the ball passing through the chest and coming out at the back of the neck. It seems that on Christmas-eve he was the sentinel stationed before the officers' quarters, where he had an opportunity of meeting persons, some of thorn conveyed liquor to the unfortunate man to such a degree that be become incapable of executing the duties of his post, and was accordingly stripped of his belt, and confined in the guard-room. In the morning he was brought before the commanding officer,. who told him he should represent the heinousne,s of his offence to the colonel, with the view of bringing him to a court-martial. Being a man of very good character previously, it seems that this had such an effect on his mind as to cause him to meditate self-destruction. He complained of illness after his interview with the officer, and. was accordingly allowed to retire to the hospital, which is situated in the upper story of the barracks. A comrade brought him his dinner and a pint of ale, which each man. was provided with through the munificence of the officers on. Christmas-day; but he desired the man that brought the dinner to drink the- ale, as he, himself, did not care for it. The man being pressed to do so, drank part of the ale, and then retired on other business. Deceased was in a small room of the hospital, and toook the opportunity, whilst the rest of tbe patients were in another apartment, to steal a musket, which he conveyed unperceived into the bed—lie then fastened a string to his toe and attached it to the trigger, by which he was enabled to carry out the rash design. The report being beard, his comrades rushed in, and found him in the last gasp and enveloped in flames, as the sheet caught fire. When the smoke and fire were cleared away,, the unhappy man presented a melancholy spectacle before the eyes of his comrades, to each of whom he was endeared, having been a general favourite from his many good qualities. He was a remarkably fine-loking soldier. His name is Mullins, and I have heard his father is a clerk in the Thomond-gate distillery, in Limerick.—Limerick Reporter.
The Manchester Examiner. — 1848-10-28 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

MEDICO-LEGAL QUESTION.—A rather puzzling case of alleged suicide is reported in the Annales d' Hygiene. A woman is found asphyxiated by the fumes of charcoal, andf her husband states that he and deceased had agreed to commit suicide, but that he had survived the effects of the carbonic acid gas. Now the question was to ascertain whether, in the circumstances in which he was placed, he could have resisted asphyxia, as he maintained? Was it not likely that he destroyed his wife by the coal fumes, and placed himself in such a way as to simulate a double attempt at suicide? The medical men consulted on this matter resolved to place everything in the room in the manner pointed out by the prisoner; to produce the same evolution of the gas, and to see the effect it would produce on the identical lamp, which had continued to burn whilst the supposed attempt at asphyxia was going on. They expected, moreover, thus to discover to what extent the air became deterioratrd in a given time, and thereby to judge of the value of the prisoner's assertions. Now it happened that the lamp went out in amuch shorter time than the alleged attempt at suicide—according to the prisoner's own statements—lasted, and that the air became so soon deadly that it would have been impossible for the husband to do certain acts which he stated having performed, a much longer time after the charcoal was lighted—namely, the descending into his shop (he was a grocer), the reaching down of a jar of alcohol, and the getting up again into the room with the jar in one hand and the lamp in the other. The prisoner stated besides, that he had swallowed three large glasses of alcohol, but nothing, when he was found, pointed to the ingestion of so enorthous an amount of spirits. The medical witnesses therefore answered the following question in the negative :—Can the prisoner have been placed in the same asphyxiating circumstances as his wife, and not fall a victim to the fumes of charcoal as well as herself ?—Lancet.