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    1. [GLA] News Items October 1st to December 31st 1926. No. 294.
    2. J GRIFFITHS
    3. Western Mail Tuesday December 7th. 1926.   No. 294. ABERFAN MAN'S GRIEF. Remarking that the man took his life by throwing himself in front of the train, the North Glamorgan coroner (Mr. R. J. RHYS) returned a verdict of "Suicide" at an inquest held on Monday at Merthyr Vale on Charles ARSCOTT (68), a colliery workman, of Bryntaff, Aberfan.   It was stated that the man had grieved over the death of a daughter, who was killed in a recent motor accident at Cardiff. CARDIFF WIDOW KILLED BY A FALL.  Falling down the stairs at 22, Edward-street, Cardiff, about three months ago. Mrs. Emma Eliza NASH (80), a widow , died on Saturday. At the inquest by the Cardiff Coroner on Monday a verdict of "Accidental death" was returned. ABERAVON MEN SENTENCED.  David Hopkin DAVIES, Green Park-street, Aberavon, and Edwin R. DAVIES, Sandfields, Aberavon, were at a special Port Talbot court on Monday sentenced to three months respectively for being found in the enclosed premises of the Port Talbot Corporation yard on Friday night last. BOY'S FATAL HEAD WOUND-Lad To Young To Go For Trial.   The story of a fatal quarrel between two schoolboys in a stable was related at the inquest held on Monday by the North Glamorgan Coroner (Mr. R. J. RHYS) on David LEWIS (11), of Taff-street, Merthyr Vale.  E. R. ROBERTS (12), said he was standing outside the stable door with another lad, Peter O'BRIEN, on November 26, when LEWIS came out crying "Oh my eye, oh, my eye." LEWIS was bleeding from the nose and from a wound near the right eye. Previously he had heard a boy named Joseph SMITH, who was using a pitchfork to turn up some bedding in the stable, saying:" I will stick this pike in you if you don't go out." LEWIS was the only lad with SMITH at the time.   Peter O'BRIEN (11), stated that SMITH and LEWIS had been quarrelling.  Joseph SMITH (12), said he was clearing up the stable. LEWIS and O'BRIEN refused to leave and he turned them out. There was a pitchfork in his hand, but he would not say whether LEWIS was struck by it. The stable was then in darkness.   The Coroner: You hit him right enough, and you just learn to tell the truth. you are to young to be sent for trial for this sort of thing, but what you deserve is a good whipping.    Dr. KING said that LEWIS died three days later from concussion of the brain and hemorrhage, which was undoubtedly due to a blow received on the inside corner of the right eye. No great force would be required to cause the injury. He thought that the butt end of the pike shaft must have caught the lad.    In recording a verdict in accordance with the medical evidence the Coroner remarked that if the persons concerned were grown-up people it would probably have been a case of manslaughter. He had no doubt that the boy SMITH lost his temper with LEWIS and poked him with the pitch-fork handle, and unfortunately struck him a fatal blow. He trusted that this would prove a warning to SMITH to keep his temper under control. "Don't use anything you may have in your hand to hit a boy," remarked Mr. RHYS. "If you must strike anyone, use your fists. Those are nature's weapons." SMITH the Coroner further observed, was to young to answer for his action in a court of law. John Patrick.

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