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neighbourhood for the missing weapon, which is a heavy object with a flat edge two inches across, and could be an TO DEATH iron bar, or even a narrow brick. Since the search commenced SIX-YEAR-OLD LAD SEVERELY on Saturday afternoon police have continuously searched for the weapon, systematically INJURED covering every inch of the area. THE murder of 33-year-old Mrs Ruby Carter, and_ Some places, including the fields between Penllyne and the attempted murder of her six-year-old , have been searched twice, but at the time of going son, Alan, on Saturday afternoon in the bedroom to press on Wednesday the of their home, Pear Tree Cottage, Penllyne, Cow­ murder weapon had not been bridge, cast a shadow of fear over the numerous found. small communities which make up the Vale of Our three photographs show Mr and Mrs George . ______Carter on their wedding When 29-year-old Mr Evan ened to Penllyne and immedi­ day. George Carter returned home ately commenced their in­ Mr George Carter (in light from work in the afternoon, he quiries. raincoat) and his father, found the battered, dead body They discovered that the Mr Evan J. Carter, arriv­ of his wife lying on their bed, husband, Mr George Carter, ing at the inquest. had left his home at about And little Alan Carter, who and his son, Alan, lying on a 5130 a.m. on Saturday to go to is now critically ill in nearby bed, still alive but work in a asbestos hospital. suffering from severe head in­ plant, where he is employed juries. as a process worker. His wife EMERGENCY OPERATION and child were in bed when he left the house. Closing the Mr Carter picked up his son, door behind him, he had and, rushing to his car, drove latched but not locked it. him to Cowbridge to the sur­ Mr Carter had got into his gery of Dr. Cumming Nay- car and driven it to Cowbridge, smith. where he picked up two work­ Dr. Naysmith was out. and mates; then he drove on to Mr Carter then took the boy Rhoose. to the home of his (Mr Carter’s) father, which is over ‘COVERED WITH BLOOD’ the Co-operative Stores, in Returning to Cowbridge at High Street, Cowbridge. about 1 p.m. after completing His mother went across the his work, he went to Cowbridge road to the chemist’s shop of Girls’ High School, where his Mr R. H. Williams, and by good wife was employed as a fortune found Dr. Naysmith cleaner, but found that she had there Dr. Naysmith examined not been at work that day. the boy, and had him con­ He returned to his home, veyed immediately to and, on entering the bedroom, General Hospital where, after found that his wife had been examination, he was rushed by brutally slain, her head having ambulance to Morriston Hos­ been battered in with a blunt pital, near Swansea, which instrument. The sheets on specialises in brain surgery. their bed and her night-dress An emergency operation was were covered with blood. performed. As the parents’ SEARCH FOR WEAPON permission was required before the Operation could be per­ On the next bed lay Alan,! formed, Mr Carter and his his head horribly battered, but ■■■ Mr F"— Carter, were he was still alive. first riiMieil Iiiiiii Mi—.!— ro ..Detectives, who rushed to Mdrriston. in -a --poHẄ^Sr...... quarters in the Fox and DOOR ON LATCH Hounds Hotel, which is Detectives, under Detective immediately opposite the Car­ Supt. Tom Williams, head of ters' cottage, and parties of the Glamorgan C.I.Û., hást-1police commenced scouring the VALE OF FRIGHTENED DETECTIVE WAITS NEAR WOMEN ALAN'S BED A detective in the Glamorgan ‘Y think he realised sub­ HE Vale of ÇUamorgan has become the Vale of Frightened Police waits in Morriston Hospi­ consciously th at I was there.” tal for Alan Carter, son of the Despite the hopes of the T Women since the murder (writes Tony Hughes). police that Alan will be able to Residents of the many murdered woman, to recover i assist them in the inquiries, or - isolated villages throughout , consciousness in order to record ’ perhaps name the murderer if the area are taking stringent ‘Most Eerie Sight’ any clue which the injured it is a local person, they do not MURDER WEAPON STILL NOT child can give. Although not hold out much hope that Alan precautions to ensure that no There were few persons about will be able to assist them to a unauthorised person has the in the village of Fenllyne on always a t the bedside, the marked degree. slightest chance of entering Sunday night when the body of FOUND detective is within easy reach of The reason for this was Mrs. Ruby Carter, the murdered the glass cubicle in which the explained to reporters by a their homes. woman, was taken by hearse to On Tuesday the Police trans- i to the Jime of the nightly This week I have made my injured boy lies. i senior Glamorgan detective on the Home Office Pathology fared the headquarters of I press conference given by 1 Sunday when he stated that usual rounds of the Vale, but centre at the East Glamorgan After being examined by Dr. Cumming Naysmith in his 1 almost invariably in cases such .instead of just knocking at the Hospital. Church Village, Pnlice^rinn íl^O n^Ä t’ been Ä as this a person who receives PoLce Station to Police Head- Supt. Mannings, toid re­ grandmother’s home, Alan was brain injuries loses his memory at Bridgend, owing to porters he was still waiting for rushed to Bridgend General that the court room of all events which occurred up &f

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T H.E. Mayor of Cowbridge (Councillor K e n n e th M . Hutchins) today painted a word picture of “a vale of fear in which women walk in dread.” OF He was referring to Penllyne and the surrounding area following the brutal murder of Mrs. Ruby May Carter, who was found last Saturday battered to death in bed at Pear Tree Cottage, Penllyne. ‘This killer,” said th e villages and parts oi Cowbridge Mayor today, “has caused by the team of detectives work­ much fear and dread. He is ing on the case. FEAR They will also hove in their dangerous.” He appealed to people living possession detailed reports from in the district to volunteer in- the forensic scientists, the result lormation and said: “It is of tests by the fingerprint obvious there is a great deal oi' experts and the, completed post­ fear among the women folk as mortem report. long as this man is at large. This morning, children from "If anyone can think of any Penllyne and the neighbouring unusual incident they saw on villages again had a police Saturday they should go to the escort from school. police at once. It is up to us all And this evening, when they to trap this murderer. “People are keeping indoors walk home through the darken­ more than ever before because ing country lanes—these is no of their fears, ityen the surger­ street lighting in the area—they ies of local doctors are empty at will be under the eye of police night because people are scared officers in patrol cars. to go out.” This applies to children Forensic science officers today attending the schools of , took samples of about 100 blood St. Mary Hill and . spots on the wall around the top T h e Chief Constable of of the bed in which Mrs. Carter Glamorgan, Mr. Cecil H. was killed. Watkins, said that the county director of education. Dr. Emlvn Memory search Stephens, had asked him to pro­ vide protection for the children because he was " a little per­ by residents turbed.” A number of police cars have Today, also, police sifted been detailed for the job. through hundreds of quesion- naires already completed by people living in the Vale of Death drama was Glamorgan, They were asked to search their memories for anything r e -e n a c te d that might lead to the identity of Mrs. Carter's killer. Meanwhile, last yesterday Already the “ quiz ” answers Detective - superintendent Man­ have disclosed the presence of nings, Chief-inspector Tom Wil­ strangers in the area within a liams (head of Glamorgan day or two of the woman’s body C.I.D.) and other senior officers, It is up to us all to being found. accompanied by scientific Superintendent Jack Man­ officers, re-enacted the death nings. of Scotland Yard, said drama at Pear Tree Cottage. today: “ We have not ruled out They believe they have learnt the possibility of a stranger a lot from the position of the trap this murderer being involved.” body of Mrs. Carter and that of By tomorrow night a more her son, Alun, who was found detailed pattern will be available lying on top of the other bed, for the team who are attempting seriously injured. to track down the killer of the At Morriston Hospital today 33 - year - old Birmingham - born Alun’s condition was unchanged. housewife, who was expecting a He remains critically ill. Mis father, Mr. George Car­ baby. ter, a 29-year-old process worker, who is visiting nim every day, said yesterday of the tragedy. Education director's "My conscience is clear. I am not worried by rumours and r e q u e s t gossip because there is bound to be gossip in a small place like this. By then they will have "Tnere has never been any received replies to all the trouble between Ruby and my­ questionnaires which have been self. There has never been any­ taken round the surrounding body else for me. We were happily married.” ___ iturday, January 9, I960. OBSERVER; LEADER i " in....«■ GOTLAND YARD CALLED IN ESS CONFERENCES HELD ‘A WONDERFUL MOTHER’~ Sunday morning detectives and uniformed police assembled Mrs Ruby Carter was des­ i the sleepy village to receive instructions from Supt. Tom cribed by her friends as being .ms and his assistants before starting to search for the a very active woman. She was jr weapon and other clues. a cieaner at the CoWbridge r the temporary “Field Girls’ High School, and in her uarters" set up in the Fox The Supt. stated that the spare time acted as a cleaner in Hounds Hotel, nearly 30 rumour that Scotland Yard had a Cowbridge hotel and in a lapermen, representing all been called in was correct, and local tobacconists. Yet she that -born Supt. Jack remained a wonderful mother. nain London newspapers Mannings, and his assistant, iress agencies, stood wait- Nothing being too muòh—or too Sgt. A. Roberts, would arrive (difficult—for her to do for for news. Outside the that night to conduct the little Alan. ?v cottage stood uniformed Yard’s investigations. She was a native of Birming­ ibles, keeping a watchful BROWN SHOES MISSING ham, and met her husband n case any unauthorised when she was spending a holi­ l should attempt to enter Soon after their arrival the day in Cowbridge. Yard men were taken to the On Sunday a number of Mrs >ttage, while in the garden cottage, where they were shown Carter’s relations arrived in the cottage detectives the room which contained the Cowbridge. Although her father, led for clues. body of Mrs Carter, still lying Mr Walter Cummings, was too ill on the bed where she was to travel to Cowbridge, her sfcep- NO PEAR TREE murdered. After their examina­ mother, Mrs Lily Cummings, pite its name, there is no tion Supt. Mannings reviewed her two brothers, Walter aged tree in the front garden the details of the case with 26 and Ray, aged 18, and her Glamorgan detectives. sister, Mrs Irene Gajeur, came i cottage, and, in fact, the Later that night Mrs Carter’s to the Borough. ree in the garden was the body was removed to Church Her brother told reporters Christmas tree, on which Villiage Hospital, where a post­ “We were very worried by the seen hung the Christmas mortem examination was con­ Birmingham Y.W.C.A. murder its for Aiun—gifts now ducted by Dr. C. R. E. Freezer, which occurred near our home, Home Office pathologist. but we did not dream then that discarded on the ground, At a Press conference held on murder would strike at our own the early afternon, while Monday afternoon Det. Inspec­ family.’’ still combed the area for tor Norman Davies revealed the • Supt. Williams held a information that a pair of brown conference in the Cow- shoes were missing and in reply i Police Station. The court to questions it was stated that “I Swear I Did Not where justice has been the murder weapon was a blunt lsed for nearly 100 years, instrument with a two-inch Do It” een turned into ‘an opera- wide straight edge. It Gould be room,’ where the results of a stone of brick, the coal break­ —HUSBAND aquiries were being cata- ing edge of a hatchet or some Mr George Carter,, whose i. similar instrument. wife, mother-to-be Mrs Ruby Carter, was murdered on Saturday, hit out at rumour- mongers m the Cowbridge area )W THE CRIME MAY HAVE on Tuesday n.ght wnen he told reporters: 'T know r am num­ ber one suspect. But my con­ BEEN COMMITTED science is clear. I swear I did not do it. 'm

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