Saturday evening usually no doubt has its many little wonders and “scenes,” but it is not often that one comes under one’s notice like that which came under one’s notice like that which came under my notice on Saturday evening, I was walking along the Cardiff road, and heard a strange story about stone throwing.
Some time ago Mr Lauurie became seriously annoyed, and possibly not a little alarmed by some mysterious stone throwing which was going on in the vicinity of his residence, and by which his windows were suffering destruction.
The police took the matter up, and close watch has been kept, a reward of £5 offered for information on the matter, but all without avail. The mysterious stonethrowing still goes on. On last Saturday night, the best “talent” in the borough force for “finding out” things was brought to bear upon the affair, but though one of the watchers, actually, I am told, got struck by a stone, no discovery could be made of the perpetrators of the outrage. It is certainly a mysterious affair.
South Wales Daily Telegram, 3rd October 1887.
Newport Stone Throwing Scare.
For some weeks past the windows of the residence of Mr L.G. Laurie, Cardiff-road, have been mysteriously broken. On Saturday evening two police officers concealed themselves on the premises, and the smashing of glass continued in their presence. The officers, accompanied by the servant girl, searched the grounds, and the mysterious window breaking still went on.
Eventually the girl was discovered in the act of mischievously throwing a stone through the window. When taxed with this, she readily admitted it and confessed that she had been the perpetrator of the whole of the mischief.
The girl, who hails from Abergavenny, and appears to have a mania for such foolish practices, has been sent home to her parents.
Star of Gwent, 7th October 1887.