"Anne Bishop on her oath saith
"I am the wife of the last witness, and
look after the Church. On the 16th the prisoner came to my house and accused
me of having his stones moved and put on Davies' grave and he said
that we had had his name taken off and put Davies on them, and I told
him that it was nothing of the kind that his stones was all right but
he would not hear anything but what we had done so, and said his own had
been there 50 years. I asked him if I should go and show him his mistake
but he would not go. The tombstones of his family are there now in their
proper place. He said when he left the house that he would break them.
After he left I heard a noise of stones being knocked, but I did not believe
he was doing it. I went into the churchyard and saw him standing by the
grave with the tomb stones broken. They appeared to have been recently
broken.
I had seen the stones at 5 and they were
whole and it was 7 when I saw them broken and the prisoner by them there
was a large square stone out of a tomb lying near and from what I saw
it was my impression that this stone had been used to break the others.
The prisoner went away when I went there but by the following morning
the marble tombstone had been pulled down. I gave information that Evening
to the persons who were related to those over whom the stones had been
placed as I thought they might blame someone else."
Witness:-
David W E Thomas
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