The Herald of Wales. — 1888-10-27 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

THE SCENE IN COIMIT.  John Daniel, a little boy, said he and Tom Lott ware cutting elinft in :his father's stable about 6 30. The stable was near Primroserow.  Daniel Williams, a botcher, mid he °cessionally employed the prisoner to clean out the daughter-boom and cut chaff, but he never did any slaughter work for him, neither dil he ever ahew any inclination to become a eitsughter-man. The slaughterhouee was usually open, and many besides the prisoner bad atoms to it. On Friday morning witness left a knife in the slaughter hunee.„ which was the same as the one produced. Witness next saw tbe knife on Sunday morning in the posseamion of Inspector (lidding*. William Lewis, landlord of the Three Compasses," saw the prisoner on &turd iy evening, after the news had spread that liar. per's child wee missing. Witness asked L as the child wee last aeon in hie company, what he had done with it, and he replied that he had not seen it. P.O. htopkins said that about 8 50 on Bator'day night be was in James street, and received information that Harper had mimed his child. Witne•s proceeded up the street and saw the last witnees in conversation with the prisoner. He overheard a little of their con. wrsation. Witness asked Lott to accompany him Witness asked prisoner what he had done with the child and he said he took him so ter es the bridge, gave him a smack, and then cent him home. Asked where he went after Bandit g the boy home, Prisouer answered 'Up to a house in Primrose-row." The constable and prisoner then went to a house kept by a woman named Esther James. Witness asked her if she had seen Lott that day, and she told him that she had not. Lolt then reinartied that when he called ahe was out. Witnem, pointing in the direction of the wood, asked prisoner if he had been there that day, and, after some Imeitetion' be said he had not. Just before 12 o'clookon daturday night the constable wont along the same road as be went with the prisoner and entered the wood just about the spot where prisonee, had some time previously denill being in the wood that day. Witness followed the path for about 200 yards, sod chsoovered tho boy of a ehid wliteh proved to be that of Jul s Harper's. There were others .marchlug, and seeing a iht come ehsrt dis• taueefrean him he shouted to them, when a roan named Benjamin Davies came to him. Witness then fetched Dr. JAW& ITS company with Inspector Giddings and P.';. thirds they went to Lott's heti e and he was eppreheoded. Sunday momtug prisoner knocked at his oell.cleor, and on wit nese going totini he said that he found the knife on David Williams' window.ctll. Wit nese reported the statement to Inspector Giddings. In prisoner's house there was a parcel which ocnotained some meat, whieli was ghee toll= by David Williams. c'risoner was asked if he wiehed to put a qinet tun to the polioe constable, and replied in the negative. Dr. Francis B. Jones said at 12.30 a.m. on Sunday, the 21st hat., in consequence of information he received, he went to the woods, and saw the body of a child. There were stains of blood on the back of the neck, back of the hair, and also spins on the g.ound near the child. Eight yards up the elope there were also spots of blood. Under the cap there was also a large quantity of blood. Between the space of the body and hat there Was no blime, which led witness to infer that the child bad not crawled after the injuries, but that the body had been removed at ,er death. On the stem of a tree near to the child's ! head were some stains which might have been a smear from the fingers. NJ instrument Wilk f und anywhere near. The body was cold and stiff. From the position he found the body, he expected to fled some injuries to the lower parts, but found none. Witness turned the body on its back and saw a lazgegapine wound, which contained a portion of the child's scarf aid RUM leaves. lb, chil I's scarf was tied loosely round the reek by a single knot. The b sty was afterwards conveyed to the parents' Ileum. At tbe hone) witness made a thorough examination of the injuries. There was a email stab at the upper pert of the belly, from which a lorg scratch passed upwards, and ran in two directions. The atab was not a deep one, and had not penetrated the belly wall. The wound on the neek was four .nehes long and one and a half inch below the right ear. It was a clean OUT, and passed, down to the bones oi the neck, which were exposed. The wound contained a quantity of clotted blood. Witness was of opinion that under any ;pireumstanom it was not a selflabeled wound, especially by • child only four and • half years of age. It had the ohmmeter of a wound that had been cut from right to left, whereas in the 0860 of suicide it WWI generally the reverse. Inspector John °idling' gave evidence as to the street of the prisoner, stating that he and the other ofneere could not get an answer at the front door, the coneequence being the door wasforced, and pt honer via captured. At seven o'clock the court was edj tuned midi 4 80 p.m. on Thursday, when as no further testimony is likely to be produced, the coroner wilt sum up the evidence.  G,IRIIQANNtsiarT cUB $W imwAis:A.VN . ‘ -.mgr. • 1r 4- iiiita giTr'. '-. I 4 it 4 IL. .... •- 7.'an Wit tot ,matT the iv:flute* of deink, but pe nnticubtbdly AlirfEA lost his head, and commitMd illotantiret; r.. warrantable and unjutitisbie. He gsve JOgs runt for the plaintiffs, and assessed dagmers.— EX riIAORDINAg. *II,TgXI,7ITB"Wisr. forMruc. w Lewis £.J, isa.nd for Mrs I,eivis et, i both eli -- Acrios