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SERIOUS CASE AT ABERAMAN

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SERIOUS CASE AT ABERAMAN MARRIED MAN SENTENCED FOR ASSAULTING A GIRL. At Aberdare Police-court yesterday (before Mr. T. Marchant Williams, stipendiary, and Messrs. T. C. Davies, E. George, E. W. Jones, and Dr. Evan Jones) Evan William Thomas, a married man, living at Aberaman, and James- Samuel, a young man about twenty years of age, residing at the same place, were charged with assaulting Mary Ann Thomas, a. girl just over sixteen years of age, on the 6th of May, 1902. It transpired that the defendant Thomas absconded immediately after the committal of the alleged offence, and was only arrested at Ferndale last week, when he was sent down to Swansea Gaol pending the police-court pro- ceedings. Samuel was let out on bail to appear after the arrest of Thomas. Mr. William Thomas defended. In the course of her evidence the prosecutrix deposed that in the month of May, 1902, she wa3 in the service of a lady, named Mrs. Davies, who lives at Cwmbach. Between nine and ten o'clock on the morning of the 6th of May, 1902, she was walking along the road from Cwmbach to Aberaman. She was carrying two jugs filled with milk. On approaching the bridge which crosses the river by the Plough Pit, Aberaman, she saw both the defendants inside-the fence. They allowed her to reach the other side of the bridge, after which Thomas appeared and stopped her, saying, "Give me some milk." She replied that the milk was not hers to give. Meanwhile Samuel had run up some- rubbish pits close by and shouted out to his friend, "There is no one coming." Thomas, seeing that the girl refused to give him any milk, threatened to throw her and the jugs into the river, and proceeded to take the jugs llrom her, which he placed on the ground, at he same time trying to push her down. In the course of the struggle the prosecutrix fell against the side of the bridge, and while she was thus placed, the defendant Thomas endeavoured to put her on the ground. She screamed, and presently a Mr. Bishop came up. She said that the men bad stopped her, and would not let her go on with the milk. At this stage the learned stipendiary inti- mated to Mr. Thomas that the charge would be reduced to one of common assault. Cross-examined by Mr. Thomas, the prose- cutrix said she stated that it was not her milk to give away. It was those words she addressed to the defendant when the latter stopped her. Mr. Bishop also gave evidence. Addressing the defendants, his Worship observed that they had narrowly escaped being sent to the quarter sessions, the proce- dure he would have adopted had it not been for Mr. Bishop's evidence The girl was a most respectable person, and had, doubtless, spoken the truth. The magistrates were, how- eveif, prepared to assume that it was a struggle, and decided to dismiss the charge against Samuel, while Thomas was sent to prison for six weeks. ="—————

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