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    1. [MON] News Items APRIL 1st to JUNE 30th Number Two-Hundred eighty.
    2. J GRIFFITHS
    3. Western Mail Friday June 5th 1926. A verdict of "Accidental  death" was returned at the inquest at Mumbles on Thursday on Arthur John EVANS 25, of Market-street, Morriston, who was killed at Limeslade, Mumbles, on Saturday night. EVANS was one of a party in a motor lorry, which slipped down a bank and overturned. EVANS was pinned underneath. The Coroner said he thought the driver of the motor lorry had made an error of judgement. George E. GRIFFIN, an apprentice fitter, of Station-terrace, Aberthaw, was fined 20s. and costs by the Cardiff Stipendiary (Mr. St. John FRANCIS-WILLIAMS) on Thursday for reckless motor-cycling on April 20, in Cowbridge-road. Defendant was signalled by a tram conductor to avoid alighting passengers near Beda-road. The brakes were applied, the cycle fell, throwing a pillion rider off, and knocking down a little girl who got off the tramcar. Dendant told the court the mishap was due to the greasy of the road. Edwin John THOMAS, laundry proprietor, Cardiff, summoned at Cardiff on Thursday for reckless motoring in Newport-road on May 5, was fined £4 and costs by the Stipendiary(Mr. St. FRANCIS-WILLIAMS). John SMITH, an elderly cyclist, said his machine was "bumped" by the defendant's car from behind and he was dazed and cut when he was knocked off the bicycle. Albert CROOK, Melrose Cottage, Cross Keys, was at Cardiff on Thursday fined £4 and costs for riding a motor-cycle dangerously. Defendant did not appear. Alighting at the Market-road clock from the Cardiff Corporation tramcar he was driving, George PINE, 75, May-street, Cathays, was knocked down by a motor-car in Cowbridge-road, Cardiff, on Thursday. He was conveyed to the Cardiff Royal Infirmary. Richard Edmund Leslie ASHBY 18, of Leicester, was summoned at Cardiff on Thursday to three months' hard labour for stealing a bicycle belonging to John Vernon SAMBROOK. It was stated that he had been previously convicted for bicycle stealing. "Suicide during temporary insanity" was the verdict of Mr. R.H. DAVIES, coroner, at the inquest at Brynmawr on Thursday on Lilian R. JONES 26, wife of William JONES, collier, who was discovered lying dead on the roadway near her house in Fitzroy-street, Brynmawr, the previous day. Police-sergeant BENDLE described the discovery of the body and said a bottle containing poison was found in the woman's bedroom. The three children were in bed at the time. Dr. Bernard CARLYNE said death was due to shock following the taking of corrosive poisoning. The bottle contained crtude carbolic acid, used for disinfecting purposes. "The end has come. Pray for me," was the remark advanced to his son by Joseph CHILTON 58, a Brynmawr collier, before he fell on the roadside and died. He was on his way toRhosfach to gather coal at the time. Dr. A..L. JONES said death was due to valvular disease of the heart and the coroner recorded a verdict to that effect. David REES 36, an unemployed workman, of Pontycapel Cottages, Cefn Coed, sustained a fracture of the leg and other injuries whilst digging for coal. John Patrick

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