Newport Chartists Vol.13, p.4

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Thomas Arthur aged 10 years Blacksmith says

my father is dead - I worked with him when living - I

abide with John Owen of the Parish of Aberystruth

Blacksmith - I lived with him 4 or 5 months - my

mother lives in Cardiff - no one else but I and John

Owen work in the Shop - I knew Mr Trew the

Shop belongs to him - I saw John Owen making

things he called Stay nails for two or three days - I

I didn't know what they were for - I never saw such

things before - he was making them two or three days

before they did rise - (the Chartists) - he made a good

lot - 50 or 60 - I never saw any one come to the shop

but Mr Trew may have come in - John Owen was
making them all times of the day - It was two or three

days before the Chartists rose that John Owen was

making the Pikes - the pike produced is like those

he made - he filed them at the edges & called them

stay nails - John Owen was at work all day

before the Chartists rose - I heard him say that he

& his Brothers were going to Llangunninder on the

Sunday before the Chartists rose - John Owen

did not work in the Shop the week before the Chartist

rising - He told me he was going to Merthyr as his

Brother was married but I never heard his Brother

was maried - John Owen told me the Pikes which

he called stay nails were for John Hopkins at the

Victoria Works Carpenter - I did use to ask him

what they were for & he used to say they were for

fastening Shelves up to the walls at the Company's

Shop. - I never saw stay nails like them - I

never saw any of them in the Shop after John Owen

went away when the Chartists rose

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