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SEARCHED FOR HIMSELF.

COWARDLY ATTACK UPON WOMAN.

To disarm suspicion a Llanelly labourer joined in the search for the pereptrator of an outrage of which he was guilty. This extraordinary story was told at Carmarthenshire Assizes, when David Richard Thomas, of Delabeche Street, Llanelly, was indicted for breaking and entering the house of Miss Margaret Eynon, an elderly milk vendor, of Llewelyn Street, Llanelly, with intent to commit a felony. Mr Clarke Williams (prosecuting) said that Miss Eynon was too ill to attend court that day, and the evidence she gave before the magistrates would be read. Prosecutrix returned from her rounds, and was sitting down in the kitchen, when she heard a noise in the passage, and the next thing she knew was that something was thrown over her head and she was half-choked. Her assailant then beat her about the head. She managed to get out of the house and received the attention of her neighbours. Before she went back, a few minutes after this, one ot the neighbours searched the house and found that the upper rooms had been ransacked and a padlock broken, while another room had been turned upside down, and the mattresses turned over. Shortly before this occurrence a young girl saw accused knocking at Miss Eynon’s front door, and she advised him to go round the back. He opened the garden door and went in, and she never saw him coming out. Some time later he asked a man where Miss Eynon lived, although he himself bad been knocking at her door that morning —a clever attempt to divert suspicion from himself. John Jones, said he found Miss Eynon bleeding profusely, and prisoner, who appeared to be excited, was standing in the road. At Miss Eynon’s request he searched the house, and in doing so was accompanied by prisoner. They were both armed with pokers. Prosecutrix asked prisoner afterwards why he had attacked her, but he denied it. Sergeant Lewis said that prisoner asked him, “What will they do if I speak the truth ?’’ and witness replied that he did not know. Prisoner added, “I know I opened the back door with a piece of stick and shouted Miss Eynon’s name three times in the kitchen.” Prisoner denied the charge, but was found guilty. The judge said that prisoner had committed a cowardly attack on au old woman, who was now iu a weak state of health. He had committed this offence under circumstances which showed an extraordinary amount of daring on his part. If he were older he would have sent him to penal servitude, and he would advise him to stop iu his career or else he would find himself there. He sentenced him to nine months’ hard labour.

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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1275, 23 July 1914, Page 4

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SEARCHED FOR HIMSELF. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1275, 23 July 1914, Page 4

SEARCHED FOR HIMSELF. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1275, 23 July 1914, Page 4

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