Bargoed Journal. — 1908-03-05 (Gelligaer, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

CAERHOILLY POLICE COURT.  On Tuesday, before Mr. W. Ware and Mr. C. V. Harrison.  Full of Complaints. " A week last Friday they gave my boy fourteen stripes, and they marked my boy absent three times," cried Mrs. Day. "How do you know he was marked absent ?" asked Mr. R. Y. Evans (clerk), "Were you at the school? Have you seen the registers ?" " No, and Mr. Williams (the attendance officer) only called round once." The clerk: You seem to complain 'about everybody but yourself. Mr. W. Ware: We will only fine you half-a-crown this time. No appearance. Thomas Morgan, collier, Bargoed, was summoned at the instance of the National Society of Prevention of ctuelty to Children for neglecting his children.— Mr. Win. Spickett prosecuted.—Defendant failed to appear and Mr. Spickett applied for a warrant.—lnspector John Thomas said that on February 4th he visited the house occupied by the &fendant at No. 17, Stanley Road, Llanbrada.ch, where he found four children under 16 years of age. The wife was helplessly- drunk and the children were so neglected as to cause suffering.—The warrant was granted. Refused to quit. Henry Jones (26), an Aber ripper, was summoned for being drunk and refusing to quit the Abe; Hotel.—Mr. C. Goodfellow prosecuted.—Defendant, who pleaded guilty, was fined 10s, and costs for refusing to quit and Is. fine and 10s. for damage to glasses which he had broken after he had been refused drink. In all he had to pay £2 7s. A doubtful present.  Mrs. Selina Reynolds, 56, a widow, hailing from Llanbradach, was summoned for the theft of cloth, valued at; 285., the property of Mary Jane Ripping, Llanbradach.—The clerk: Are you a married woman ?—Mrs. Ripping: Nis, I am not married, I keep lodprs. (Laughter.)—The prosecutrix then aski the court that she went to sleep at Reynolds' house and took her owls bed with her and inside the bed was the, piece of cloth, which she alleged was; stolen and now formed part of a skir4 for the defendant's' back." Everybc4y knows that I have had the cloth for 4 years, said the woman amid renewe4 laughter. When the clerk was questicising Actingsergeant Davies as to the whereabouts of the cloth the defendaist, blurted out. that she had it. (More laughter.)— The defendant contended that the cloth had been given to her as a present, and , the bench dismissed the case. Theft of rib of heel Williams, (26), collier, Caerphilly, was summoned, for stealing a 'Aisne of a beef, valued r 3s:, the property of Mr. ' Evan Rees, butcher, Caerphi}ly.—Thos. Rees said he was an assistant to Mr. Evan Rees, and on Fehruar* 29th at , 2.30 pail. he missed a piece of beef valued at 3s, bora a table colt:side- the sho2.-7 Mr. C. V. Harrison: Wlere was the table ?—Witness Outside the shop.— Police-se-rgeant Thomas, Caerphilly, proved the arrest and said that defendant, when charged at the station said, " I done it in drink."—A fine of £1 br fourteen days was imposed. drunken freak. Thomas L. Llewellyn and Thomas Manham, colliers, Senghenydd, were charged with stealing a pair of boots, valued at lie. 9d., the property of Mr. Rees James, boot dealer, Caerphilly, on February 29th.—Prosecutor said that the defendants came into the shop and ' asked to see a pair of boots. He showed them a pair and one of. the defendants asked the other if they would do. He answered in the affirmative and then ran out of the shop. Prosecutor gave chase and caught the man. He then gave information to the police. Both men were under the influence of drink.—Policeconstable James Smith proved the arrest and in answer to the charge preferred Manham said, "I have nothing to say." Llewellyn "We done it ins drunken freak." When asked what they had to say in their defence Llewellyn said they had been on the randy for three or four days and were muddled up.—Llewellyn, who had been corrrictAA 11191:e than 29 occasions Wag SciiteniA O Ofie MOWN hard labour.—Manharn was fined LI or fourteen days. A case of_second sight.  Elisabeth Mary Jones, a single woman, from Senghenydd, was charged with stealing a clock and coat, to the value of 225., the property of Maud Bridges, married, Aber.—Prosecutor said that on the evening of February Bth she was out shopping and in Commercial Street when she met the defendant, whom she had not seen before. They walked home together and some time after they parted she missed a clock and a coat.—The clerk: Are these the artitlis ? —Prosecutor : Yes, I needn't look at them to know they are mine. (Laughter.)— Po ice-sergeant Walters, Seughenytid, proved the arrest and said that the defendant pleaded guilty.—The bench ' bound the defendant over to appear when called on, under tire First Offenders' Act. Alleged Attempeed Suicide. Robert Jones, labourer, Caerphilly, was charged with attempted su:cide. 1 The defendant was a North Welshman I i and it was necessary to have an interpreter.—Wm. John Jones, labourer, Caerphilly, said he lived at No. 15, St. 1 Cenydd Terrace, Caerphilly, and on the 1 22nd February he was called by his