A GIRL'S DEATH.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17206, 25 July 1921, Page 7

A GIRL'S DEATH.

CORONER'S VERDICT. (By CaM®—Pnes Associa Hon—Copyright * (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association) (Received July 24th, 5.5 p.m.)LONDON" July 22. At Abertillery, the verdict of the Coroner's jury was wilful murder against Jones. Throughout the boy took oopiotls notes of the evidence, and continually" consulted his solicitor. He was quite calm and Unmoved while his mother gave evidence of his having Had a bathe and being found without his shirt, which he explained he had accidentally dropped into the water. [Harold Joneß, aged 15 years, was arrested at Abertillery. Monmouthshire, and charged with the murder of Florence Little, aged 11 years, whose body, with the throat cut, was found hidden in an attic in Jones's home, after several thousand people, including Jones and his father,, had fruitlessly searched all night for the missing girl in the neighbouring fields. Jonea was acquitted at the Monmouthshire Assises l>y a jury, inoluding five women, on a charge of murdering Freda Bruflell, aged nine years, who disappeared after going on an errand to a shop in Abertillery, where Jonea waa employed. A witness testified to hearing Bcreams in a shed adjoining the shop. Brunell's strangled body was found on February 6th, after several days' search by neighbours, ( in a lane previously searched. The trial aroused intense local fepling.]