Western Mail Friday May 28th 1926. In fining Charles Robert CARTER 35, £5, or one month's imprisonment, at Cardiff on Thursday the Presiding Magistrate (Lieut-col, A.P. CAREY-THOMAS, T.D.) observed that the man had "behaved most brutally" towards a police-constable. Pontypridd Y.M.C.A. on Thursdsay organised a walking match for unemployed married miners. The route, from the Y.M.C.A. along tramlines to Broadway, Treforest, by Glyntaff Church to the Cottage Hospital, along Hospital-road to Common-road, proceeding to Merthyr-road, then to Norton Bridge and back to the Y.M.C.A., was lined with people. 1st. James MERRITT.- 2nd.- George SANDFORD.- 3rd.- Joseph DAWKINS, 4th- T. ASHCROFT, 5th, R. GARDNER. Richard BROWN, a pitman, of Plantation-square, Troedyrhiw, hearing that a chicken was unable to escape from a disused local pit, volunteered to go to its aid and lowered himself by means of a rope. The chicken, which had been confined for six days and had been kept alive meantime by odd scraps of food thrown to it by children and others, was found perched on a projecting stone 160 ft. below. Alongside were three eggs which it had laid during its imprisonment. Exhausted by the exertion entailed by his rescue effort and the fowl air encountered down the shaft during the two hours odd he was down there, BROWN experienced much difficulty in making an ascent, but eventually was hauled safely back to the surface, together with the hen  and its precious eggs. Mr. David REES (coroner), assisted by a jury, conducted an inquiry at Penrhiwfer on Thursday into the death of Mrs. Mary BULLOCK 56, of 8, Church-terrace, who was knocked down by a motor-car at Penrhiwfer on May 22, and died at the Porth Hospital last Monday. Ezra DAVIES and Frank SAINT, said the woman seemed to hesitate in front of the car, which was going at a very slow speed. SAINT added that he did not think she saw the car at all. Charles BULLOCK, husband, said his wife was very deaf, and the  driver of the car, John HENDERSON, Talycelyn-road, Penygraig, said the woman walked with a sideways motion in front of the car just as he was on her. The jury returned a verdict "Accidental death" and exonerated the driver from all blame. David Thomas LEWIS, a young man, was fined £5 and costs or a month's imprisonment at Cardiff on Thursday for driving a motor-car reclessly in Corbett-road on April 8th. MR. Fred CROCKFORD, engineer, of King Edwards-road, Swansea, said as he was driving a motor-van over Corbertt-road crossing defendant came on his wrong side of the road from Colum-road at 25 to 30 miles an hour and ran into the van he (witness) was driving, swinging it around and damaging it. Defendant said he was driving at about ten miles an hour and sounded the horn when approaching the corner. Instead of his running into the van the van ran into him. William CRIDDELL, a young man, of 35, Kathleen-street, Barry, one of the mourners walking in a funeral procession in Broad-street, Barry, on Thursday, was knocked down by a motor-car. The vehicle apparently skidded on the wet surface of the road and the procession was temporarily stopped. The injured man was taken to the Barry Town Accident Hospital suffering from abrasioins and bruises to the hands and legs. John Patrick