HAD BEEN ARRESTED.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20509, 10 January 1935, Page 10

HAD BEEN ARRESTED.

Clergyman Dead in Limekiln. The Rev David Jenkins, a forty-eight-year-old Church of England clergyman, was found dead in a lime kiln at Haverfordwest, Cardigan, at 8 a.m. the other day. writes the London “ Daily Express.” He had been dead for about half an hour. A few days before he was committed for trial at the local Police Court on charges of stealing. Mr Jenkins, who lived at Llangorse. Llanrhvstyd, was recently in charge of a church at Amgoed, Whitland. Jenkins was charged at a special Police Court with stealing a bunch of keys and a spoon, the property of the Castle Hotel, Haverfordwest, and a pair of scissors belonging to Elizabeth Jane Griffiths, a bookkeeper at the hotel. There was a further charge of stealing tw r o towels, the property of the Great Western Railway, but this was outside the jurisdiction of the Court. Jenkins pleaded not guilty. Woman’s Evidence. Evidence was given by Elizabeth Jane Griffiths that on November 16 she left the keys of the office, the safe and the cash box on the counter. Jenkins came in. pulled out a bottle of whisky from his coat pocket and drank it, using bad language to the hotel boots. Constable Thomas said that when Jenkins was searched at the police station no keys were found, but the spoon and scissors were in his coat pocket. He said: They must have been put in my pocket. At the December Quarter Sessions, to which Jenkins was committed, he was to have appealed against a recent conviction for being drunk and disorderly.