Bargoed Journal. — 1909-07-15 (Gelligaer, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

SUICIDE. , stands, we have got the" blessed " thing, At the Caerphilly Police and the question is what can we do with Henry Fox, a hairdresser about it? In the first place what are parks years of age, of Hengoed, was ehe for ? One would get the answer from a with attempting to commit flu' d ' ici e oil six-year-old child, promptly, "To play Saturday evening last. in," and from an older individual, " For Lewis Thomas, an assistant , the use of the public for recreation." It at the Junction Hotel, Hengoed, is plain therefore that they are not merely that on the night in question at 8 A ornaments, and naturally we begin to ask he served prisoner with a few glasses ourselves " Is the Bargoed Park an bitter. About 11 p.m. witness ornament ? " Whether it is or not, the prisoner in the house with blood on average Bargoedian will at once agree neck and collar. Witness asked ' with this statement, "It is capable of what he had done. Prisoner told , improvement in many directions." to leave him alone, he wanted to fai Hitherto it has been a burden on the Prisoner then went for witness, -' rates, and from a utilitarian point of view closed with him. Witness took a tot .it is sadly lacking as a recreation ground. case out of the man's pocket. Whls What provisions have we for the children witness was holding him prisoner saki other than that made by nature? Where "Where is my razor ?" Eventually& are the swings and the rings that one Richards came and witness and the doo finds in nearly every park? These tor had as much as they could do to htill things could be erected at a moderate prisoner. cost, and would be almost permanent, Police-constable Price said he arrested and the ratepayers would be repaid ten- prisoner, who had a cut about an inei fold by having healthier children in these long on the front of the throat. It)' squalid surroundings. been bleeding but was not bleeding' " Scout" in his lament (?) asks "Where Witness conveyed him to the Bat are the dancers ? Where is the band" ? police station, where in answer to Aye, where are they. charge prisoner said he meant to do If a bandstand is erected in the park but the razor slipped and he lost it in+ then there could be a band, and this grass by the river. Prisoner told would undoubtedly prove a source of nem he had been worried about di:__ revenue to the rates by the holding of things lately. The man had been driske concerts in the summer evenings. lag. " Scout " also suggests that a portion Dr. Richards said he saw the man , of the park be turfed. This is an ex- Saturday night. There was a cut on* cellent suggestion, for if this is done throat about an inch long, but not tennis courts could be laid out and a deep, and there was no danger. charge made to the players of the club, conduct of the man at the time the iii, that would inevitably be formed. A ness arrived was that of a man with hi portion could also be used for bowls and mind unhinged. He was waving hit croquet. In the City of Cardiff it has arms about and calling for his raw been found that the bowling greens are a The wound might have been inflicted by considerable source of revenue to the a razor or sharp instrument. city coffers; and why, we ask, should Prisoner told the Bench that lie had not the Bargoed ratepayers not get some been worried of late by business mattes return for the money already expended which had gone wrong, and financial on this useless park. Much more could troubles. He had also suffered from it be said on this matter, but we now leave fluenza and had taken drink, which hail it to our councillors to try and get some made things worse. Between everythiag revenue from this white elephant, instead his mind was rendered into such a state of asking the ratepayers to pay, pay, pay. that he thought the best thing he evil The following are the lines by do was to do away with himself. 111 " Scout 4' : was sorry now, however, that he did not The Deserted Park. exercise his will power to prevent it, Sweet Bargoed! dirtiest village of the He had had fever in Africa and had hada hills, serious accident which affected his nerve Where coal dust dyes the river and the and from which he had never properly rills, recovered, and he could never stand aity Where gluey mud flows down the worry. gradients steep, The Bench committed prisoner to the And travellers sprawl, still cursing low Assizes. and deep, VI- Where gully traps are nothing but a sham A