Western Mail Saturday May 22nd 1926. James PASSEY, butcher, Trelewis, was fined £5 each on two counts at Bargoed on Friday for failing to give three hours' notice of the slaughter of animals as required by the Public Health Meat Regulations. Mr. John EVANS prosecuted for the Gelligaer Council, and Mr. Ivor M. CULE, Merthyr, defending, pleaded guilty to one of the charges. Mr. EVANS explained it was the first prosecution of its kind in that court. It was essential that a person before slaughtering an animal for sale for human consumption should give three hours' notice. There was a proviso, however, that where immediate slaughter was necessary because of injury or illness to an animal notice should be given as soon as was reasonable. In this case Sanitary-inspector ROWLANDS received the following text of a telegram from defendant: "Beast Trelewis slaughter-house. Kindly inspect.- PASSEY." Urias ROWLANDS, sanitary inspector, said it was obvious by the look of the carcase that it was diseased. Mr. CULE'S defence was the animal was ill, was immediately slaughtered, and that notice was sent to the sanitary inspector as soon as possible. A coloured man named Elmi MOHAMIT 30, was remanded on bail by the Cardiff Stipendiary on Friday on a charge of unlawfully and maliciously wounding another coloured man named Horatio STRAKER, by striking him on the head with a stick in Bute-place. Mr. Sydney JENKINS, prosecuted for the Seamen's and Firemen's Union, and Mr. J. Lewis WALTERS defended. Bowlers, golfers, and sportsmen generally throughout South Wales wil learn with deep regret of the death, from a heart attack, on Friday of Mr. D.A. SUTHERLAND, of Cornhill Villa, Swansea. He was 51 years of age, and leaves a widow, two sons, and a daughter. (There is quite a long obituary). "I find that it was purely an accident," said Mr. R.J. RHYS, coroner, at the close of an inquiry held at Tylorstown on Thursday into the death of Edgar LLEWELLYN, aged 32, of 28, Llanwonno-road, Stanleytown, a banksman, employed at No.9. Colliery, Tylorstown. On May 1. LLEWELLYN, who was a member of the Wattstown Male Voice Choir, was returning with other members from an eisteddfod at Pontypridd, where they had won a chair. Near the entrance to the Standard Colliery, Ynishir, he was knocked down by a car driven by Donald FRASER, the son of the headmaster of the Hendrefadog Schools, Tylorstown. FRASER was driving Mr. T.W. BERRY, Rhondda, director of education., Mrs. BERRY, and Miss BERRY to their residence at Penygraig. Alfred FACEY and Rees DAVIES said that they were walking up the road behind LLEWELLYN, when they saw him move first to the middle of road and then back again. Immediately after they saw the headlights of the car. Then the car struck him. They heard the horn sounded. Mrs. Aldyth Muriel BERRY, who was riding in front beside the driver, said that FRASER sounded his horn continuously. He was not going more than ten miles per hour. She saw LLEWELLYN a fraction of a second before he was struck; he seemed to hesitate in front of the lamps. He staggered a little, as though the lights had dazed him. Had he moved on he would have escaped. Donald FRASER said LLEWELLYN started out into the middle of the road but hesitated, and was on his way back to the side of the road when the car struck him. A verdict of "Accidental death" was returned. John Patrick.