A POLICE appeal regarding a hundred-year-old death has been inundated with responses, Dyfed Powys Police have said.
In their appeal, police said PC William Davies died as a direct result of injuries received while attempting to apprehend violent sheep-rustlers in Chirbury Street, Montgomery in 1903.
He died three weeks after the incident, leaving a wife and four children, one of which, William Henry Davies was involved in the Abermule rail disaster of 1921, where he worked for the Cambrian Railways Company.
This information and much more has come to light as a result of a recent appeal.
Facts have been unearthed from Yvonne Rideout, Ontario, Canada; Dawn Gill in the Powys Archive in Llandrindod Wells; Ann and John Welton, local Montgomery historians; and from Michael Davies, the great grandson of PC William Davies himself, who responded to the appeal, intrigued that his forbear was the subject of an inquiry after so much time had elapsed.
The appeal is on-going to unearth further details of the events surrounding PC Davies’ death, and hopefully a photograph or picture.
The possibility of a restoration of the gravestone is to be researched and a re-affirmation of the facts celebrated with the descendants and other interested parties are planned.
Any person with further information, please contact Antony Topazio or Kevin Smith on the non-emergency number 101 and your message will be forwarded.