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TREHERBERT.

THE RECENT POISON CASE - Mr. David John, Trecynon, writes:- "With your kind permission I would like to make a few remarks upon the report of this case in last Saturday's issue. The impression which it naturally conveyed to your readers does wrong to Mr. Davies, the husband in question. I believe, in a case in which family feelings are so delicate, your correspondent should make himself quite certain of all the details before he hurries into print. The fact of the poisoning is hard enough to us, without supplementing it with unwarrantable insinuations. Mrs. Davies (who is my sister) was not driven to the steps in consequence of quarrels, &c. - far from it. Mr. Davies married her, and, further, undertook to bring the pecuniary confusion to order. She concealed nothing from him; and the liabilities were stated at so much, which was to be paid in three equal instalments. However, Mr. Davies was made aquainted with some additional claims, though of a doubtful kind, but which, nevertheless, were aggravating. This weighed heavily upon both, but the wife felt peculiarly grieved; inasmuch as Mr. Davies had entered voluntarily into all this trouble, she felt so strongly and deeply for him that in a moment of wild despair she committed the rash act. Mr. Davies has, I know, been ungenerously judged by the public; but I can assure you that my sister's own words were sufficient to convince me that he has been most wilfully and unkindly treated by the public. Mr. Davies is a man of undoubted integrity, and I am deeply sorry that the rash step committed should have placed him in such an unhappy situation."