From Western Mail - Saturday 17 December 1955
Teacher accused of murdering wife
  A 48-YEAR-OLD Cardiff
schoolmaster was committed for trial yesterday charged with the murder of his
wife, Agnes Elizabeth Jones, mother of four children. He is
Iorwerth Jones, of Princes-avenue, who appeared before the Cardiff Stipendiary
Magistrate (Mr. Guy Sixsmith).
  Mr. Peter Barnes, on behalf of the Director of
Public Prosecutions, alleged that on the night of November 22, Jones struck his
wife with a hatchet. Mrs. Jones was taken to hospital with three head wounds
and died two days later.
Happy family
  "It is a tragic case because until this fatal day they were a
perfectly normal, happy family." he said.
  Police-constable John Green, who went
to answer the call with Detective-sergeant Gwilym Evans, described the time
he spent alone with Jones. He said that Jones, was continually wringing his
hands and burying his face in them.
In a disjointed conversation he told the
constable that he had not slept for about "two or three weeks"
  Later Jones told
the officer. "It started last summer. She could not sleep and then I got it."
  Jones was committed for trial at the next assizes. He pleaded not guilty and
reserved his defence
From Western Mail - Tuesday 20 March 1956
TEACHER WHO KILLED WIFE FOUND INSANE
  For an hour-and-a-half, at Glamorgan
Assizes in Cardiff yesterday, the jury listened to the tragic story of a
devoted father and husband who killed his wife with a hatchet.
  The husband, a
48-year-old schoolmaster, Iorwerth Jones, of Princes - avenue, Cardiff, was
found guilty of the murder of 43-year old Agnes Elizabeth Jones, but insane.
  Jones, who used to teach at Metal-street School, Cardiff, was ordered to be
kept in custody as a Broadmoor patient until her Majesty's pleasure be known.
Mr. Roderic Bowen. Q.C., M.P., who appeared with Mr. Norman Francis for the
prosecution, said Jones and his wife had three children, the eldest of whom
they had adopted. It was a perfectly happy household.
Wife's health
  After the birth of her last child, Mrs. Jones's mental health gave grounds for
anxiety, and she was to have entered Whitchurch Hospital as a voluntary
patient on November 23.
  In the early hours of that day, Jones attacked his wife with a
hatchet while she was in bed. She died two days later.
Jones told Police-constable J. P. Wheatley, he had not been able to sleep for
about two or three months.
  Detective-inspector John Thomas, who had known Jones for
years, said he was a devoted husband, father and churchgoer.
  Called by the
defence, which was conducted by Mr. Philip Wien, Dr. J. P. Spillane said he
found Jones to be suffering from melancholia, a disease of the mind. On the
night in question, he did not know fully the nature and quality of the act he
was doing.