Siartwyr Casnewydd Cyf.13, p.30

Disgrifiad

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30

Reg vs Owen

Thomas Arthur aged 10 years
my Father is dead I worked with him when living
Blacksmith ^ abiding with John
Owen of in the parish of
Aberystruth in the C-oy of Monmouth
Blacksmith I have lived with him
4 or 5 months my mother lives in Cardiff
No one else but I & John Owen work
in the Shop I knew Mr Trew the Shop
belongs to him. I saw John Owen
_things he called Stay Nails for
making ^ 2 or 3 Days I did
not know what they were for
I never saw such things before
He was making them 2 or 3 Days
before they did rise (the Chartists)
say what
He made a good lot
50 or 60 I never saw anyone come
to the Shop but Mr Trew may have
come in. Jno Owen was making
them all times of the day It was
2 or 3 days before the Chartists
rose that John Owen was making
the Pikes. The Pike produced is
like those he made He filed
them at the Edges & called them

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Tudalen 2:
[across 2nd fold of page]
Reg vs Jno Owen

Depo: of
Thomas Arthur
Aberystruth [in red ink]


15-11

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[shown top right of the digital image :]
Pencil drawing of a pike head affixed to shaft

[text shown vertically on orientation of digital copy:]
Stay Nails. John Owen was at
work all day before the Chartists rose
I heard him say that he & all his
Brothers were going to Llanguniydr
on Sunday before the Chartists rose
Jno Owen did not work in the Shop
the week of the Chartists rising
He told me he was going to Merthyr
as his brother was married
but I never heard his Brother
was married Owen
told me the Pikes which he called
Stay nails were for John Hopkins
at the Victoria Works Carpenter
I did use to ask him what
they were for and used to
say they were for fastening
Shelves up to the walls at the
Company's shop I never saw Stay
Nails like them I never saw any of them
in the Shop after Jno Owen went away

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contn of previous text?]
when the Chartists rose