A SCENE IN. COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 173, 21 July 1906, Page 11

A SCENE IN. COURT.

.:£UXATIC'S.-SIRCGGLE ..WITH KltrHT .„.„ ".,', " .WARDERS. ~,..' " '" '■" • The trial at the, Montgomeryshire Assizea of Roland Llywarch,' a; London dairyman, for the murder of au old farmer, named John Evans, in Vhillside cottage at Sarthheidio,'>hded 111 a'".ve"ry""dramatic' fashion 'at half-past 10 'on'.Satiifday: iiight: ' After an absence from Court of a quarter of ah"hour the- that Llywarch was guilty, but that, he-jivas-insane at the time of the • murder...-Llfwarch flung himself -against dock-nearest the-jury and yelled,.'"X am. not: guilty; I am not guilty, .you;.: liars." .■ A warder' tried to secure" him, but he threw him off easily. . Other warders and- constables spraug-intb: the 1 dock,-; and eijfht-of- tjieni -closed- with Llywarch,-who struggled- so- desperately- that-the. -front of the dock.was,.siniislied to pieces. -The Court .was., in .an uproar, .and. the barristers wind others near.them..niiule a".wild rush fi'om the neighbourhood* of the .dock..!. Eyentuiitly L jy"*'. nr , c h overpowered and handcuffed. but. he'did not cease to 'struggle.-while Mv Justice .Wa!ton passed sentence of deten* tion r durlng his Majesty's" pleasure. Still * 'struggling,' he wwars r carried- out of" the "dock, and he dhi""hot"stop,.untn'r.bn 7 th'e':way to the'police station, ; .a deputy chief.constable appealed* to him in Welsh to go anletlv for the t*l-e-of hk wlxe>i n _-___ < _ t<!W! / Wntf _r are preaent Llywarch ted been commit- : t»* on a charge of murdertnc Mrs Bvana i S&ySL!?* l ! ,**-**• W«ctment ywki I ON fPDMMtA Wttfc. : ■ • ■ • •• __«„_..;...