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--E NEW YEAR -fD THE PEOPLE.j

THE CRISIS nr THE COAL TRADE.

LOCAL NOTES.

ROUND THE TOWN.

IN AND AROUND BARRY.

LLANHARRAN AND YSTRAD HOUNDS

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BARRY.

BARRY DOCK.

CADOXTON.

PEXARTH.:

BONVILSTONE. ]

LLANCARFAN. i

PENMARK.

LLANBETHERY.

ST. BRIDES-SUPER-ELY.

CADOXTON POLICE COURT.

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CADOXTON POLICE COURT. THURSDAY.—Before Mr. O. H. Jones (chairman), and Colonel Guthrie. Row IN A QUARRY.—John Andrews and — Leach were charged with committing a violent assault upon John Parfitt, quarry owner, Barry Dock, at his quarry at Kingsland-crescent.—Mr Jackson prosecuted, and Mr. F. P. Jones-Lloyd defended.—There was a cross summons against Parfitt for assaulting Andrews.—The Bench dis- missed both cases. SEQUEL TO THEPENCOEDTRE "GHOST" AFFAIR. —Alfred Palmer, Rosina Palmer (his wife) and James Moist were charged with assaulting Mary Jane Carroll, a milk vendor, living at Pencoedtre, near Cadoxton.—Mr. Jackson defended.—Plaintiff said she lived at Pencoedtre, and when on December 13th between twelve and one o'clock in the night was walking from her house to meet a female friend, she passed nine men and boys and a woman, The three defendants were amongst them. Palmer accused her of being the alleged ghost—that had been talked about—and struck her his wife also did the same, knocking her in the hedge. The man Moist also struck at her. Witness was most brutally assaulted.—Cross-examined I did not get over any hedge to come into the road. I have never heard about there being a ghost there.. I did not pick up any stones, and throw them. The whole nine of them knew me, and they all struck me. I had had no drink that night; my husband was not taken home in a cart that night. They all said they had caught the Pencoedtre ghost, and were going to take it to the police-station in order to claim a reward.—Bella Dalziel deposed to being the person whom the plaintiff was walking to meet. She saw plaintiff next morning, and saw that she had been badly knocked about. — Police-constable Solomon said the plaintiff came to him at about three o'clock in the morning. Her face was badly bruised, and both her eyes bore evidence of assault. She com- plained of having been assaulted. — Timothy Mahoney, for the defence, said he was one of the nine men, and on the night in question he saw the plaintiff come from the field on to the road with her shawl over her face. She was not coming from the direction of her house. Palmer said. "Stop ghost." Complainant replied with :1 dis- gusting expression, and afterwards picked up stones and threw one at Moist, which left a. mark for a week. Mrs. Palmer smacked her face for calling her a bad name. Neither of the others touched her. Witness, in reply to the bench, said he, with the others, went uprto Pemo^dt^g'foT the purpose of seeing the ghost which waf stated in the "papers to be about there.—William" Matthews corroborated, and said when they saw the com- plainant first she was wearing a mask. He be- lieved her eyes were blackened before. Near the King William IV. Hotel complainant threw more stones, one of which struck Moist., and the other struck witness on the hemi the mark from which had not yet disappeared.—Mr. Jackson asked for a cross-summons and for the case to be adjourned for further evidence to be brought forward. His client, Mrs. Palmer, had been in bed for a week, as the doctor would prove, from the effects of a blow from a stone thrown by the complainant.—The Bench refused the cross-summons and the ad- journment, and characterised the assault as most brutal, and said they had a good mind to send them to prison without the option of a fine. Each defendant would have to pay £2 each and 15s. 9d. each costs, or go to gaol for fourteen days with hard labour.

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