MONMOUTHSHIRE MURDER

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 246, 12 July 1921, Page 5

MONMOUTHSHIRE MURDER

EVIDENCE DISCOVERED TN JONES’S HOUSE. (Roc. June 11, 5.5 p.m.) London, July 10. An investigation of Jones’s houso showed that the murder was committed downstairs anti tlio body hauled by a rope through a trap-door to the attic. There were bloodstains all up the stairs. It was evident that several attempts had been made to wash away the stains.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. [Harold Jones, aged 15 years, was arrested at Abertillery/ Monmouthshire, and charged with murdering Florence Little, aged 11, whose body, outraged and', 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 tlio missing girl in neighbouring fields. Jones was acquitted sixteen days earlier at the Monmouthshire Assizes, by a jury (which included five women)’ on a charge of murdering Freda Brunel I, aged 9. who disappeared while going on an errand to a shop in Abertillery, where Jones was employed. A witness testified to hearing screams in a shed adjoining the shop. The child had been strangled, and: her body was found on February 6 after several days’ search by neighbours in a lane which had previously been searched. The trial aroused intense local feeling.]