October 21st: letters

Rhyl Record and Advertiser, 21^st October, 1893.

[…] The Bench decided to hear the evidence of Polly Sheppard, with whom Coombs had been keeping company. This witness said Wilkie had annoyed and struck her, and she knew deceased had gone to prisoner’s parents, created disturbances, and declared he had brought her into trouble. Coombs had nothing to do with Wilkie after walking out with witness. Questioned as to the letter in which she referred to the destruction of other letters, witness said these were not Wilkie’s letters to prisoner, but his letters to deceased, which the latter had returned. […]