Monmouthshire Merlin 1866

19 May 1866.

DISTRICT INTELLIGENCE

PONTYPOOL. TOWN HALL.—SATURDAY. [Before H. M. KENNARD and JOHN THOMPSON, Esqrs.]

USING THREATS.-Sarah Pitt summoned Hannah Lewis for sureties of the peace. Mr. William H. Lloyd appeared for complainant, and Mr Greenway for defendant.—The parties reside at Glascoed —The complainant, who is a widow, said that defendant had threatened her from time to time, and on Saturday last came after her and threatened her, and said that she kept her husband. It seemed that defendant and her husband have for some time led an unhappy life, and defendant said that her husband loved complainant better than he loved her, and had been with her for as much as seven weeks together, saving that he came home once or twice in the day just to keep up appearances. She had witnesses to call, she said, to prove what she had asserted.—In answer to Mr. Greenway, complainant said that she had had a “bidale" or “kidley wink."—Defendant's husband was there, but she had nothing to do with him, and did'nt want to have, and he had not been at her house for the last two months only once.—The Bench said that as complainant swore that she was in bodily fear of defendant, they must bind the latter over to keep the peace.—She was also ordered to pay 10s. 6d. Expenses.

(Sarah and Hannah were neighbours at Rose Cottage and Bush Cottage respectively, on Poplar Lane. They later fell out again in 1868 as seen in this court case, concerning Sarah’s lodger and soon to be husband, James Williams).