THE WELSH MURDER.
VERDICT AT INQUEST.
By Telegraph.—Press Assn —Copyright. London, July 22.
At Abertiilery (Monmouthshire) the verdict of the coroner’s jury was wilful murder against Harold Jones. Throughout the fi 1 teen-year-old boy took copious notes of the evidence, and continually consulted his solicitor. lie we* quite calm and unmoved while his mother gave evidence of his having had a bath and being found without a shirt, which, he explained, had accidentally dropped into the water.
[Jones was arrested at Abertiilery and charged with murdering Florence Little, aged 11, whose body, outraged and with the throat cut, ws? found hidden in an attic in Jones* home after several thousand people, including Jones and his father, had fruitlesslv searched ail night for the missing girl in the neighboring fields. Jones was acquitted sixteen days previously at Monmouthshire Assizes by a jury, including five women, on a charge of murdering Freda Brunnneil. aged nine, who disappeared after going on an errand to a Shop in Abertiilery, where Jones was employed.]
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Taranaki Daily News, 26 July 1921, Page 5
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169THE WELSH MURDER. Taranaki Daily News, 26 July 1921, Page 5
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