Western Mail Saturday June 5th 1926. Shem DAVIES, haulier, of Stuart-street, Cardiff, was sent to prison for a month by the Cardiff stipendiary on Friday for cruelty to an aged mare, which was said by a veterinary surgeon to be suffering from "every indication of acute starvation." An inspector of the R.S.P.C.A. said the animal was tied to an empty manger; it staggered from side to side; there was no food or water near it. It ravenously ate corn given to it by him on Wednesday. Two days later defendant said he fed it on Monday. Charged with stealing £26 worth of jewellery from 36, Kingsland Crescent, Barry Dock, a week ago, Thomas KIELY and John MURPHY were sentenced on Friday, the former to three month's hard labour, and the latter for a month. Edward JONES was placed on probation. Glascoed school-children have presented their headmaster, Mr. Arthur WILLIAMS, with a silver-mounted walking-stick on his appointment as headmaster to Hafodyrynys Elementary School. Charged on a warrant with perjury at Cardiff Police-court on May 27, Raymond Luther CRAYFORD 31, formerly in business as a grocer at Swansea, was on Friday remanded by the Cardiff stipendiary. Detective HODGES took prisoner into custody and charged him with committiing perjury during the hearing of a paternity case (in which he was the defendant), denying a material allegation. The remand was till Thursday next. Bail was granted in a personal surety of £20 and two other sureties of £20 each. In adjourning the inquest opened at Exeter on Friday on Harry SPICER 18, patient at the Western Counties Institution at Starcross, Devon, the deputy-coroner said the case would take some time to consider, and many inquiries would have to be made. SPICER, a native of Cardiff, died following an injury to his eye, caused, it is alleged, by a billiard cue while he was playing with other members of the institution. The deputy-coroner suggested that the case might assume a serious aspect. The only evidence offered was that of Thomas SPICER, of Harvey-street, Cardiff, who identified the youth as his brother. The inquest was adjourned for a fornight. CARDIFF GOLDEN WEDDING. Mr. and Mrs. David William LEWIS, of 11, Hendy-street, Roath, Cardiff, celebrate their golden wedding to-day (Saturday). They were married at Tabernacle Chapel the Hayes, Cardiff, by the late Rev. Nathaniel THOMAS. Mr. LEWIS'S father was the licensee of the Salutation Hotel. He (Mr. LEWIS) went to sea when he was twelve years of age, and by the time he was fifteen he had made several voyages to New Guinea. Then he became an apprentice at the Rhymney Railway engineering sheds, and after 25 years ashore, he returned to sea, securing his chief engineer's certificate. During the war he was employed by Messrs. SPILLERS and BAKERS, and he retired a few years ago. Mrs. LEWIS was born in Cornwall. Their only son died some years ago, but they have two daughters alive, thirteen grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren. Frederick George SMITH, married, of 4, Exmouth-place, Chepstow, was admitted to the Royal Gwent Hospital on Friday with a fractured skull. While riding a motor-cycle he was involved in a collision with another motor-cyclist near the Ford-lane, on the main Newport-Cardiff Road. It was stated late last night that SMITH was in a critical condition. Wanted immediately, General; all duties; business house; reference.- Apply OVERINGTON, Porthcawl. Councillor J.R. LLEWELLYN, J.P., at Barry Finance Committee on Friday appealed to the District Council to take the representatives of the press more into their confidence. It would be in the interests of all if the committees furnished the press with all reports. The Chairman (Mr. Dudley T. HOWE) said the press would be confided in more entirely than hitherto. John Patrick