Western Mail Wednesday June 2nd 1926. "This man has a bad record, and from an early age has shown the tendency to steal bicycles. He has had six convictions for this class of offence," said Court-inspector FRANCIS at Cardiff on Tuesday in a case in which William COLEMAN 24, pleaded guilty to the theft of a cycle and overcoat, value £2.10s., the property of Herbert CHIVERS, Obaston, Monmouth. He was sent to gaol for three months with hard labour. Albert Edward DICKENSON, a postman of Treharris, pleaded "guilty" at Merthyr on Tuesday to stealing a silk jumper value 16s.11d. and a postal order for 15s. Mr. Taliesin GRIFFITHS, who prosecuted said that DICKENSON had been two years in the postal service, and was paid £2.7s.9d. a week. The jumper, which had been despatched from Merthyr, was found in defendant's house, and the postal order, sent from Lewes, was cashed by DICKENSON in Cardiff. Defendant, who is a married man with a child of six months, told the magistrates that he was compelled to keep two homes going, his family being in Cardiff and he living in Treharris. In binding over DICKENSON to be of good behaviour for six months the Stipendiary (Mr. R.A. GRIFFITH) remarked that the man had been exposed to great temptation, and expressed the opinion that the wages paid him were not sufficient to keep defendant and his wife respectably. At the close of proceedings at Tuesday's meeting of the Glamorgan Agricultural Committee Mr. James JAMES (Sheepcourt), one of the best known farmers in the county, sought to reply to what he descibed as "a cowardly attack" made upon him in his absence by the Rev. D.M. JONES (Senghenydd) at a meeting of the committee held on February23. Mr. JAMES, was referring to a press report of the meeting, and the Chairman (Mr. Claude THOMPSON) asked the clerk (Sir Thomas Mansel FRANKLEN) for his ruling. The Clerk said Mr. JAMES, had no right to trouble the committee with what had appeared in the newspapers. "We are not responsible." he said, "for what appears in the press." Mr. E.H. MOLES (addressing Mr. JAMES): Had not the Rev.D.M. JONES and yourself better go on the green? (Laughter.) A Member: And I will act as referee. The matter dropped and the proceedings terminated. Mr. B. Edward HOWE, West Glamorgan coroner, held an inquest at Port Talbot Police-station on Tuesday on John BREESE 58, collier, of Margaret-street, Felindre, Aberavon, who collapsed while in a relief queue on Friday, and died after being taken home. Mrs. BREESE, the widow gave evidence that her husband had been injured in the arm at the colliery last January. He complained of being unable to sleep night or day owing to the pain in the arm. On Friday he went to the relief queue and had to come home. He complained of pains in the chest, and said if they did not ease he would collapse. Thomas BREESE, son, said he was standing in a different queue on Friday morning, when he was told that his father had been taken from the queue to the Workmen's Club. He found him in terrible agony and took him home. Dr. R.T. WILLIAMS said that as a result of a post-mortem examination found death due to heart failure. The heart was very much enlarged, almost double the ordinary size. There was no connection between the death and the injury to the arm. A verdict in accordance with the medical evidence was returned. Anna PALMER, an elderly widow, of Stoughton-street, was summoned at Cardiff on Tuesday for neglecting her daughter, Laura PALMER, a mental defective, aged fifteen years and eleven months. Mr. Tom JOHN prosecuted for the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Dr. Mary I. ADAMS, assistant medical officer, said she found the girl on the floor of a bedroom scantily clothed and suffering from lack of sunlight and fresh air. Defendant refused to allow her to be removed to a suitable institution. Inspector KEMPSTER said the girl had not been out of the house since her father died three years ago. On May 27 witness applied for a warrant for her removal to the City Lodge, where she was now detained. Defendant said the girl was all right till her father died in May 1923. After seeing him her daughter covered herself up and said:"Mother, daddy is cold and can't speak to me. I don't want to see him now" The blind of the bedroom was kept down at the girl's own request. The girl wanted always to be in the company of her mother. The Stipendiary (Mr. St. John FRANCIS-WILLIAMS) sent the defendant to prison for two months, with hard labour. Violet RUSH, of Mill Parade, Newport, has died in Woolaston , House Infirmary, Newport, from the effects, it is stated, of salts of lemon poisoning. She was found in a state of collapse on the roadside at Malpas on Sunday night. A verdict of "Death from natural causes" was returned at the inquest at Newport on Tuesday on Arthur Harold FELTON 48, of 4, Gibbs-road, Newport, who collapsed and died whilst playing tennis at the Home Farm tennis courts, St. Julian's, on Saturday afternoon. Mr. FELTON was playing a friendly game when suddenly after returning a long shot, he fell to his knees. On going to his assistance onlookers found him to be dead. Dr. J. Lloyd DAVIES said that the probable cause of death was a rupture of an aneurism of the aorta. For stealing coal from Llanbradach Colliery Joseph ELLIS and John EDWARDS, unemployed miners of Llanbradach, were fined £2 each at Caerphilly on Tuesday. Thomas JAMES, coal merchant, Llanbradach, was fined £5 for receiving. John Patrick