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= MOTHERLESS CHILDREN, WRETCHED CONDITION OF MAINDY HOME. Before the Llandaff magistrates on Monday a charge of neglecting four children under the Jl t lrte^n yeare yras preferred against George Isom (49) and his daughter, Agnes Ig .(tm><nt.y), who reside at 11, Flinit-etreet, a^I W" Emns (Messrs. George aPPeaJ"ed for the National Scxaety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Chil- stated thai proceedings were taken against the male defendant and his wife a&°. brat, ae the latter was remored to Bridgend Asylum, the sum- monses were withdrawn. A short time ago Mrs. Isom gave birth to a child at the asylum, and this was plaoed in the charge of her husband and daughter. Mrs. Isom had since A revokong story of the condition in which the baby was found was related by Inspector Beverington, whose evidence aJso showed that the other three children were d Lsgracofully neglected. The condition of some of the rooms in the hoose were (the officer stated) beyond his powers of descrip- tion. The children were removed to the work-! house on the advice of Dr. England The male defendant told the bench that he had' not gone to bed at all in reoent months, usually spending the night in a chair in the kitchen, and he, therefore, did not know of the state of things upstairs. Colonel Woods You must have known the wretched condi- tion in the house generally. "This has been one of the most painful and most dreadful cases that I remember," said Colonel Woods in imposing on the male defendant a penalty of L5, with the alternative of one month's imprisonment. Agnes Isom was placed under the charge of the probation officer for six months.

"ODDS ON THE PLAYER." SLOT MACHINES IN PENTRE SWEET SHOP. Gdovaamomi Franciaoo, a keeper, Lie valyn-street, Pentre, wae sum- moned aft Ystrad OlD Monday for having slot machines on his licensed premises for the purpose of gaming. Mr. Hugh Jones (in- structed by Mr. T. J. Thomas, Bargoad), who defended, submitted that the chances were in favour of those who put their money in the slots, and thez. received value in the shape of sweets, the chances being odds on the player. A machine was produced in court, and a witness who deposed that skill was used in pulling the trigger, tried three shots on the suggestion of the stipendiary and gained two bull's-eyes for sweets to the value of his stake, and in the third case his money was returned. Police-constable Bankes gave evi- dence that he had seen a boy lose money at the came on February 12, and he informed defendant that he would be reported. The Stipendiary, inflicting a fine of 20s„ including oosts, said that if defendant wished he could sell sweets and make a profit without the adventitious aid of the machines, which incited young people to gamble.

MONMOUTH ASSIZE COURT NEWPORT AND THE PROPOSED REMOVAL. Alderman T. Canning, chairman of the Par- liamentary and improvement committee of the Newport Town Council, on Tuesday referred to the question of the removal of the assizes. He was sure that Newport did not want to deprive Monmouth of the assizes, but the position was that, if the assizes had to be removed from Monmouth with the danger of their going out of the county altogether, then it was to the advantage of the whole county (Monmouth included) that they should go to Newport.

LOSS OF THE DECCAN. + "CAUSED BY THE DEFAULT OF THE MASTER." In the ma.gist rates -room at the Liverpool City Police-buildings on Saturday judgment i was given in the Board of Trade inquiry, which had been held on the previous days, into the circumstances attending the stranding and subsequent loss of the Liverpool-owned vessel Deccan on the 6th of December last at Cape Tate, on Ince Island, in the vicinity of Tierra del Fuego, while on a voyage from Port Talbot to Tooopilla with a. cargo of coal. The tribunal returned the fol- | lowing answers to the questions submitted by the Board of Trade: — (1) In the absence of any abnormal event such as was encountered by the vessel on the voyage in question, she was supplied with proper and sufficient charts and sailing direc- tions. They were such as are customarily supplied to vessels engaged in that trade and following that route, but the court considers that the owners would have been better advised had they supplied a large scale chart of the south-west coast of Tierra del Fuego as well as one of the s-outh-east coast. (2) Proper measures were taken to keep the vessel at a safe distance from the land after rounding Cape Horn up to about the 30th of November last, when the position of latitude 61.30 S. and 74.00 W. longitude appears to have been reached. Subsequent to this sufficient measures were not taken. (3) After sighting Noir Island on the morn- ing of the 4th of December last the master did take proper steps to give his vessel a safe offing. He wore ship and stood away from the island on a safe course. Had the vessel been kept on that tack she would have attained a safe offing, but at 1L30 p.m. on the above date, when the wind backed to the west-south-west, the master committed an error of judgment in wearing his vessel round to the northward and westward, thereby closing in again towards the land. (4) After wearing the ship round on the port tack at midnight of the 4th and 5th of December last all available sail was carried up to midnight of the 5th and 6th. The strength of the gale up to that time was such that only the lower topsails, foresail, and fore and main topmast staysail could be carried with safety. After that time the gaJe moderated, and the court is of opinion that sufficient sail was not made in time to reduce the vessel's leeway and keep her off the land. (5) After four a.m. on December 6 last, when the land was again sighted, sail was not made with sufficient promptitude. but apart from this fact, and taking into con- sideration the conditions of wind and weather then prevailing, the court is not prepared to say that everything possible was not done by those on board to keep the vessel off the rocks. (6) A good and proper look-out was kept. (7) The cause of the stranding and lose of the vessel was owing (a) to the master not keeping sufficiently to the westward after the 30th of November last and to his standing too soon to the northward; (b) to his failure to continue on the starboard tack on and after midnight of the 4th and 5th of Decem- ber last; (c) to his not making sail soon enough during the early morning of the 6th of December last after sighting the land. (8) The vessel was navigated with proper and seaman like care up to the 30th of Novem- ber last. After that date she was not so navigated. (9) The loss of the sailing ship Doocan was caused by the default of the master, but taking into consideration the fact of his being without the assistance of a certificated second officer, and his promptitude and suc- I cess in saving the lives of all his crew in a difficult position, the court considers it suffi- cient to administer a caution and not deal with his certificate.

EVIDENCE UNDER PROTEST WITNESS IN A PREDICAMENT IN BARRY CASE. The adjourned, case was heard at Barry on Monday against Mary Gawthorne, milk vendor, Palmersto wn-road, Cadoxton, for selling ndk deficient of butter fat. Mr. J. A. Hughe-,i, solicitor, defended. Buperintandent D. Morris gave evidence to the effect that a 3axaple of the milk taken from defendant's daughter was found to Le 18 per cent deficient of butter fat. Mr. Hughes said the same day as the sample was taken Mrs. Cawthorne sent a sample to be analysed at Cardiff University College. Unfortunately, she acted foolishly in removing the police label and covering the aeaJ with more sealing wax. In giving evidence, defendant said she did this under the impression that the college authorities would not permit an analysis were it discovered that the police had taken a sample. Mr. Hughes aadd be desired to call on subpoena Mr. Robert Duncan Aboil, an amaiyet at Cardiff University College. Going into the witness-bos, Mr. Abell Said he must refuse to give -evidence. According to the conditions under which he did his work, has evidence mast not be used fn police- court proceedings. The Clerk (Mr. J. W. Morris): That is between you and the college authorities. Witrtees: No, it is under the Board of Agriculture. The Clerk: I am afraid you must give evi- dence now you have been sworn. Witness: Then I consider I have been tricked into my present position. I shall write to the Board of Agriculture and the Institute of Chemistry, of which I am a fellow, and they will probabiy taifce the matter up There has been insufficient time for them to be represented here to-day. Mr. Hughes: Well, let me ask you if you did receive a bottle? Witness: I wiah you to understand, gentle- men, that it is under protest I give my evi- dence. I dad receive a bottle. Mr. Hughes: What was the result of your anatysas of its contents?—It contained U per omt. of buttecr fat. Mr. Hughes: And 3 per cent. is the amount required by law. The bench oootferred with the oierk, and Mr. NeaJe aaid they had decided to send the remaining sample to Somerset Bouse for analysis. The oaee would, mimrmfrile, be further adjourned until the certificate of analysis had been obtained.

JOINT ASYLUM. SWANSEA AND MERTHYR FINAN- CIAL ARRANGEMENT. The, terms of the proposed agreement between Swansea and Merthyr Boroughs for a joint mental hospital near Sketty are dis- closed in a circular which accompanies the notice convening a special meeting of the Swansea Council, in committee, for to-morrow afternoon. It proposes that the expenses in providing buildings, the furnishing and fitting up, as well as the cost of the land shall be defrayed two-thirds by Swansea and one-third by Merthyr, these proportions having been fixed according to the probable extent of the accommodation required respec- tively for the pauper lunatics of fhe two boroughs. The cost of repairs and mainten- ance of the asylum and the travelling and other reasonable expenses of the Merthyr Visiting Committee are to be borne on the same basis, the number of pauper patients being ascertained quarterly. A committee of visitors, made up of thirteen representatives of Swansea and twelve of Merthyr, is to superintend the erection of the building and management of the asylum. The only probable difficulty presenting itself will be as to the possibility of the asylum being included at a future time within the borough boundary, which would mean an increase of rates to the injury of Merthyr, also as to the advantage Swansea will gain by the vicinity of the institution. Merthyr desires to equalise these things by a financial arrangement.

CARDIFF OFFICES RIFLED. B30 AND CHEQUES TAKEN FROM SAFE. The discovery has been made that the offices of Messrs. Murrell, Riohards, and Co. (Limited), bootmakers, &c., Penarth-road, had been entered daring the night. The intruder (or intruders) broke a side window intruder (or intruders) broke a side window of the factory, and thus ffained admittance. They foroed open & large safe and carried off the oubrfaox, coctMMnt fill oqtma aDd .£30 in ummy. .)

A TERRIFIC GAME FOUGHT AT CARDIFF. SNAPSHOTS OF THE CARDIFF-NEWPORT MATCH. -I- ["Weekly Mail" Photos.

WOMAN'S TERRIBLE RECORD OVER EIGHTEEN YEARS SPENT IN PRISON. Mary Jane Martin (52) made her 186th appearance at Cardiff on Monday on a warrant charging her with using bad lan- guage in Herbert-street last September Inspector Bingham explained that she was liberated on bail in order to get witnesses, but did not come back, and he arrested her on the warrant. She was also charged with assaulting Polioe-oonstable William Fox and Police-constable Henry Parsons. Pol ice-con- stoble Fox sa.id the woman struck him on the nose and kicked him, and PoMce-oonstahle I Parsons alleged that Mary bit him on he finger- They had to take her to the station on a truck. Inspector Bingham said defen- i diant first came before the court in 1877, and; her appeara-iaces had been very regular since, j Altogether she had served eighteen years and 36 weeks in prison, whilst she had been! cautioned 56 times. She had been up 23 times for assaulting the police, and once had a con-! current term of eight months for attempting j to stab the police. For police assaults alone she had served 136 weeks. As a disorderly oharacter she had been ftp 119 times, and seven times for robbery with violence. Other charges included damage to police uniforms, smashing workhouse and police windows, and loitering. Eer terms included three years,, T eighteen months, twelve months, and nine months. She was, undoubtedly, a most violent woman. The inspector added that he arrested her within an hour after Sjfiie re- entered the city. Mr. C. H. Bird gave her three months' hard labour, and upon hear- ing the sentence the prisoner made a dash at the constables.

ST. DAVID'S FESTIVAL IN LONDON. The members of the Welsh Literary Society connected with King's Cross Tabernacle, London, held a, fruit banquet as their method of celebrating the festival of St. David. The Rev. Elvet Lewis was in the chair, and there was a large gathering of members and friends. An interesting musical programme was arranged, those taking part including Miss Gwladys Davies, Miss Nesta Jones, and Miss Jennie Jones, and Messrs. J. Stainley Davies, J. J- Adams, and J. Evelyn James. In the course of a short toast list Mr. David Jcnes, B.A., proposed "Ein Nawdd Sant," which was responded to by the Rev. D. Tyier Davies. The Chairman gave "Wales and Welshmen Abroad," and in doing so referred to the fact that he would be vieitimg America this year, and should find a large number of Welshmen there. Sir E. Vincent Evans (president of the Union of Welsh Literary Societies in London this session) responded, and Mr. W. R. Owen (who has now removed from Liverpool to London) responded to the toast of Kindred Societies," which was proposed by Mr. T. W. Glyn Evans. The Health of the Chairman was given by Mr. D. R. Daniel. All through the evening the proceedings were more or less informal, and the gathering was of Such a happy character that the committee were confirmed in their decision to make it an annual event on the society's programme.

THE KING AND PEERS. MR. PHILIP SNOWDEN, M.P., SPEAKS AT CARDIFF. Mr. Philip Snowden, speaking at Cardiff on Sunday night, said he could not conoeiva Mr. Asquith making- the statement he did at the Albert-hall unless he had some assurance or understanding from the highest authority, but the general election completely altered the aspect of affairs. Had the Liberals been returned with practically an unimpaired majority, no authority would have dared to resist the demands made by the Ministers of the Crown. If an election ensued now, and the LiberaJs were returned, the King would be compelled to concede guarantees. He could not conceive that the highest authority would be anxious to have a general election fought upon the question of his refusal to give guarantees.

RAN INTO TAXI-CAB. At the inquest at Penrhiewtyn on Monday touching the death of Mary Ann Davies (10). daughter of Adam Davies, labourer, of Pantyrheol, who was knocked down and killed by a taxi-oa.b on Saturday night, Alex- ander Holbrook, of Ffaotlaiid-xosd, the taxi- cab driver, said that one tra.mca,r was stand- ing on the crossing at Pantyrheol and another was approaching about 60 yards away- He intended passing the standing car on the right side, but when he noticed the other car ooming he applied the brakes and turned to the left side. Aa he came along- side the down car he saw the child cross the Toad, a.nd he swerved out of the way as much as he could in order to avoid her. Deceased, however, ran into the taxi-cab, and fell against the mudguard. Dr. F. S. Jones said the cause of death was shook. Police-oonstable David Jones, who was sta.nding not far away at the time, said there was not the slightest blame attached to the driver as far as he could sec. The jury returned a verdict of "Accidental death," and exonerated the driver from all blame.

STABBED IN THE CHEST STORY OF A MELEE ON A BARRY TRADER. JOB. Mason, a negro seaman, was Aarged at Barry on Friday with wounding Joe. Rue- sen, a Uusfiian. The affair arose out of a drunken quarrel on the steamer Queen Louise at a. Danish port. While lying in his bunk intoxicated prosecutor alleged he was stabbed in the chest, and some Spaniards accused Mason of the act. Mason had been fighting with a Swede, and went to get a rasor. Thomas Gillespie, who said he was the only man sober, stated he took a rasor and a pocket-knife from Mason, but Rnsaen wae ehailetoging &oyone to fieht. The Beaeh stopped the ease and duchamoo r.

LAW OF SUNDAY CONCERTS CARDIFF WATCH COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN EXPLAINS. It is the policy of the Cardiff Wth Com- mittee to encourage sacred concerts on Sundays rather than oppose them, so Mr. J T. Richards, chairman of the committee., told one of our representatives on Monday- A question was put to Mr. Richards as to why Herr Kandt. had been refused permission to hold a concert at the Parkjhall on Sunday last, and the cnairman at once launched into a.u explanation of the legal position in rela- tion to the gi anting of music and dancing licences- h The watch commltt,. said Mr. Richards, "have n° lK>WrH w^Lh'h<jid or giant per- mission in regard to sacred concerts oi- Sundays, where those events are held in halls licensed for music and dancing In reality, a breach Oof the law is oonrmitted in each instance when sacred concerts are held in licensed halls, but the police would not think of taking action unless there were something objectionable in the programme. Herr Kaudt u.ppea,re1 before the. ooiamittee, and we explained the legal position to him, believing tl.at ho would be able to read between the lines, and take the hint, that he night hold his concert without fearing unpleasant conse- quences. However. he seems to. have mis- apprehended the situation. Still, the fact remains that Sunday concerts are illegal acoording 10 the strict inter,;retatio i of 'he law." It was pointed out to Mr. Richards that places of worship sometimes promoted sacred concerts, and Mr. Eichards replied that hey also oommitt.ed a breach of the law, but. similarly, in their case the police would not take action, unless the programme were objectionable. =

JmS. MARY 6HEBONOW, Of Ring Heitat, Solva, wboee de&th at the age of 94 yeaxs is announ-d. Mrs. Gromow was the oldest residerat in the neighbourhood, and had lived at King Berckxt for gJwnt 65 years. [Photo. 0. M. Bees, Sotaa.

"THE WELSH FAIRIES. One interesting item in a, more than usually good iseae is a set of vex*" by Mildred Howefls, entitled, The Welsh B^airiee," which appears in the current number of *• The Century Magiazine." Ta&iag up a weH-kraowta topic, Misff ScuweOe deals with it very prettily in her lyric, as will be seen from the follow- ing:- We aire tihe little people Who diwell in hill and dale, Or on the mountain paeeee Where clouds go drifting pale. The souls of thean that perished Before the good saints came, We died in pagan darkness, But innocent of blame. Yet since to Christian Heaven Our spirits may not win, God gave us this fair country We loved to. sbellter in. The honeet folk about us. Good hope and gifte we brrng, And to our gold harps' music Joyous we dance and sing. But in our hearts lurks sad-ness,. For on the Judgment Day, We, with our hills and valleys, For ever pase away.

PILFERING CHILDREN. SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST A MOTHER AT NEWPORT. An extraordinary series of theft charges against little girls, and of receiving on the part of the mother of one of them, was before the Newport magistrates on Monday. The two little girls were Cordelia Mairy MereAeld, aged twelve, and Lucilla Thompson Abbott, aged ten, both living in Ailesbury-street The charges of theft preferred against them were: —Stealing a roll of ribbon and a pair of stockings from a shop at 34, Commercial- street, a box of toys, a mouth organ, a wristlet and a pencil-case from a stall at the market, nine packets of sweet peas from another stall, a pencil box from another, a pair of child's button boots from a shop at I 42, High-street, a pair of "fitkots from 30, High- street. another pair of boots from 1Z, High- street, a door mat from a shop of 50, Com- mercial-street, a boy's flannelette shirt from the shop 154, Shaftesbury^-street, and six toy soldiers from a sitall at the market. Mary Merefield, the mother of the ehler girl, was charged with feloniously recei-Tlng in five of the cases, viz., the three boot caees, the door mat, and the toy soldiers. The two girls were arrested in High-street by Polioe-oonstabJe Davies on Saturday. The smaller girl (Abbott) was wearing a cape and the other was oarryiug a. trail basket. In the J basket some of the things stolen during the day were found. One of them bad a pair of scissors, evidently for the purpose of cutting1 the strings upon which boots and other goods ,ere hung at shop doors. To Police-constable Hensby the little girl Abbott she had been go--ng about with the other girl (Merefield) for about three weeks. Sometimes she would wear Menefield's long cape. They used to out the boots down with a pair of scissors. She was afraid to take them to her own house, and they used to take them, to Mrs. Merefield's house. Mrs. Merefield's husbaad told the magis- trates that at times his wife (who wae 411 years of age) was very absent-minded, and did not appear to know what she was doing. He said he wished tc make a confidential statement to the magistrates, and thereupon went to the edge of the benoh and whispered to the justices. The Bench diaaharged the little girls with a caution. Mrs. Merefield was told that had it not been for her delicate condition she would have been dealt with very severely. But as she had promised to become amenable to the influenee of a number of Christian women whom the Church Army would bring her into contact with, she was bound over for six months.

CONDEMNED MAN'S LETTERS BUTLER PROTESTS INNOCENCE OF BASSALEG CRIME. Wiltiam Butler, who was sentenced to death at Monmouthshire Assizes on February 24 for the double murder at Bassaleg, has been writing letters to some acquaintances in that village, but they have evidently been through the hands of the schoolmaster warder at the prison, some of the passages having been struck out. Mrs. Champion, of Pye-corner, whose hus- band is employed at Tredegar House as an ostler, received the following letter from Butler on Saturday Dear F-riond,ffou know where I am- senitonoed to death by I did not do the murder, but the do know who did it. The money that I borrowed off you and your son you will find buried near the back kitchen. Ask Mr. Champion to dig there, and he will find some gold sufficient to repay him. I should like to see yon or any other of my frietfljds from Basaaleg. Mr. Alfred Baker has also received a letter from Butler, in whi-cth the condemned man says:— You know where I am-sentenoed to death -but you know that I did not do the rrmninr It is awtftfcl to send an innocent man to his deaith. do know who done .1 murder. You or your molther can have my tools. My 1ast word is, I am innocent. I should like to see you or any- one from Baeealeg any day.

CARMARTHEN EISTEDDFOD ROYAL PATRONAGE: DATE OF GORSEDD PROCLAIMED. At a meeting of the executive committee I of the Royal National Eisteddfod to he held at Carmarthen next year. the Rev. T. R. Walters, M.A., R.D., presiding, the general secretary (Mr. J. C. H. Portnell) read a letter which he had received from General Sir D. M. PTobyn, Keeper of his Majesty's Privy Purse, intimating the patronage of his Majesty and of her Majesty to the National Eisteddfod to be held in the town in 1911. The committee adopted the recommenda- tion of the gorsedd committee that the gor- sedd proclamation should take place at Car- marthen Park on Thursday, June 23 next.

MINOR MATTERS. + POLICE-COURT AND OTHER PICKINGS. THE SEAMY SIDE. Jane Weils (53) was at Cardiff Police-court on Monday given three months for keeping a disorderly house at 67, Alleiton-street. EJSTGLEES POLICE NO GOOD." Nicolas Liviaky (27) was fined 5s. by the Cardiff magistrates on Monday for using bad language in Tredegar-street. Police-constable John Woodward said the prisoner was follow- ing a woman, accusing her that'she took 8s. from him, amd when witness came along the prisoner shouted, Englees policeman no —— good!" IHFUDBNT THIEVES. Edward John Thomas and James Exton were chained at Tredegar on Monday with øt.ea.J¡j¡n¡g an overcoat and mackintosh, value L5 10s., the property of Mr. T. B. Yendall, Duffryn Hotel, Aberbargoed. The men walked into the hotel and tooked the garments. They were each committed for two months' hard labour, there being previous convictions. BOUNDED ON PEACEMAKERS. William Morgan (34) was fined 10s. and costs ait Cardiff on Monday for assaulting Podice-comstable William Siheefoan at 2, Lucas- street, and Frederick Morgan (37), a brother, was fined 5a. and costs for assaulting Police- canstable Frederick Hambleton. The officers were called into the house to separate the brothers, who were fighting. A PORTER IN DISGUISE. John Burnell (28) was ohargad at Cardiff on Monday with trespassing at the Great Western Station. Mr. Arthur Vachell, who prosecuted, said thaJt only last w-eek two boys were before the cohort for a similar offence, but it had no effect. This lad was warned off two or three times, and it was only by disguising a porter in plain clothes that they were able to catch the prisoner. He was fined 2s. 6d. and oasts, or three days. CONSTABLE COMMENDED. Mr. William Walters, who presided at the Swansea County Police-court on Saturday specially commended Police-constable John Jones for a smart arrest at Llangyfelach. A man named John Arthurs (alias Palmer) was charged with killing and stealing geese a.t Penfraint Farm. The officer met the prisoner on the road at midnight, and, becoming suspicious, he went to the farm. Soon afterwards he saw prisoner killing geese and arrested him. Arthurs was sen- tenced to two months' hard labour. FATAL FALL FROM A CHAIR. Mr. W. L. Yorath, city coroner, held an inquest at Cardiff on Monday on the body of Michael Harrington (36), dock labourer, of 3, Morgan-street, who died on Saturday. On Wednesday evening deceased fell off a ohair whilst in the act of lighting a lamp, and his head came in contact with the fender. Dr. Theodore F. Dillon certified that death was due to hemorrhage of the brain and an injury to the back of the head sustained in the fall. The jury returned a verdict accordingly. LEFT THE OOmBT TOGETHER. Rill Holanes at Cardiff on Monday pre- ferred a charge against James Ware (30) of attempting to wound him with a razor, and he produced his coat to show how it was cut om the way to the football match on Satur- day. Holmes admitted that he first called the prisoner a nasty name. William Tutsall said he heard Holmes boast that if he put four fingers on Ware's throat he could strangle him. In view of the provocation, defendant was now cautioned, the two men leaving the court together. LABOURER AS DETECTIVE. William Thomas, tramp, was charged at Pontypool on Saturday with stealing a pair of leggings, value 7s. lid., the property of Herbert Amery. saddler, at Pontypool Edward Jenkins, labourer, stated that the prisoner offered to sell him a pair of leggings for Is. in a common lodging-house, but as they were quite new witness sent for the police, and it was subsequently discovered that the leggings had been stolen from the prosecutor's shop. Prisoner pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to three months' imprison- ment with hard labour. PLEA OF IGNORANCE. Thomas Lane (29) was committed to the assizes a.t Cardiff on Monday on a charge of demanding 10s. in money and goods value xi 10s. from Emmanuel Hauser by means of a forged seamon's advance note. It was stated that the note was made payable to Horace Smithson, of the steamship Penwith, but a. witness now said that there was no one by that name signed on. Prisoner, who was arrested by Police-constable WaJter James, admitted taking the note to the shop of Hauser. but said he did not know it was a false note TWO WOMEN AND A POKER. Nora Godfrey (29) wsw charged at Cardiff on Monaay with wounding OaA,hOrine Welsh on the head and arm with a poker. Prosecutrix said prisoner met her in I^niioylan-stfriee* and cried, I've been waiting for you. I'll do six months for you." She was ren- dered unconscious. Dr. Buist said the wound on the head was 1 inches in lengrh and 1:16th of an inch in depth. Prisoner, who said she only rose from bed on Friday last, declared that she had plenty of witnesses, but the prosecutrix was such a terror that they were afraid to come. She was fined lOts. and costs, or fourteen days. WHY SHE WITHDREW. When Mrs. Millie Hobbs, of Havelock-street, stepped into the witness-box at Cardiff on Monday she asked permission to with- draw the charge against her husband, George Hobbs (34), of neglecting a maintenance order. She added that she had not received more than a shilling a week since she was married, and she had seven children. Mr. D. Bees (clerk): And still you wish to withdraw? Witness: Yes. I am going in for a divorce. Mr. Sydney Jenkins (who defended): In that case, your worship, I ask that you should allow the case xo be withdrawn. I am not going to disclose my hand. It is news to me that she is going in for a divorce. Even- tually the case was adjourned for a fortnight to enable defendant to pay. PUGILISTIC SUSPECT. John Joseph King, alias John Regan, who said he was a sailor, was before the Newport magistrates on Monday on two charges-- for fighting in Alexandra-road on Friday afternoon and for being on enclosed premises at the back of Messrs. Phillips' establishment, 164 and 165, Dock-street, soon after midnight. He had been let out on bail after being in custody for the first offence. When Police constable Birch found him at the back of Messrs. Phillips, premises he showed fight, and declared that he did not care what happened to him. The Bench fined him 10s. 6d. in the first case and 21s. in the second, or six weeks' imprisonment in all. Mr. Henry Phillips said he wished to thank the police for looking after the premises so well. SEAMAN WITH A GRIEVANCE. Alexander Cramm was brought before the Barry bench on Monday charged with being drunk and disorderly, assaulting Frank Brewer, a Board of Trade official, and break- ing a window at the offices of the Board of Trade in Dock View-road. Brewer said pri- soner on the previous Saturday had to be ejected from the Board of Trade offices in consequence of his drunken condition. Out- side Cramm took off one of his boots and broke a window, afterwards striking witness a blow in the face. Prisoner: I don't "fink." (Laughter.) Defendant denied the assault, but admitted breaking the window because he had a grievance against the captain of the ship in which he had signed. Prisoner was ordered to pay 10s., or fourteen days, for the assault, the same for breaking the win- dow, and the charge of drunkenness was dismissed, the other sentences to run con- currently. BLAENLLYFNI HEADMASTER HONOURED. At Hermon Chapel. Caerau, Mr. John Dodd. headmaster of the Blaenllynfi Boys' Council School, was presented with gifts Subscribed for by the general public, consisting of secretaire, gold watch, barometer, puree of gold, and a marble clock with ornamental vases. Mrs. Dodd also received a set of silver cutlery. Mr. Dodd has held the posi- tion of headmaster for nearly 22 years, and during that period has identified himself with various useful movements in the upper district of the laynvi Valley. He Has done much good in looal mining circles, and several of the local officials owe their success to his excellent tuition. He has conducted mining and geology classes in Maesteg and Abergwynfi, and at present is the teacher of those subjects at Caerau, Cymmer, and Pomtrhydyfen. Mr. J. Edmunds presided, a.nd songs and recitations were given by well-known local artistes.

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