SHOCKING MURDERS

Evening Star, Issue 17710, 11 July 1921, Page 5

SHOCKING MURDERS

CHARGE A6AIHST A SOY. Preas Association—By Telegraph—Copyright, LONDON, July 9. Harold Jones, aged fifteen, has been arrested at Abertillery (Monmouthshire), on a charge of murdering Little, aged eleven, whose body, outraged and ■with the throat cut, was found hidden in an attic in Jones’s homo, after several thousand people, including Jones and his father, had fruitlessly searched all night for the missing, gjrl in neighboring fields. Jones was acquitted sixteen days ago at the Monmouthshire Assizes by a jury (including five women) on a charge of murdering Freda Brunnell, aged nine, who disappeared after- 'going on an errand to a shop in AhoftUlcry, where Jones was employed. A witness testified to hearing screams in a shed adjoining the shop. Freda Bninnell’s strangled body was found on February 6, after several days’ search by neighbors, in a lane which had previously been searched. The trial aroused intense local feeling. —A. and NZ- CaWa, (Received July 11, at 11.45 a.md An investigation of the Jones’s house disclosed that the murder was committed downstairs. The body was hauled by_ a rope through a trapdoor into the attic. There were bloodstains right up the stairs. It is evident that several attempts were made to wash away the stains.