Weatern Mail  Thursday April  29th 1926. A six-year-old boy, named Francis MARTIN, of Plymouth Wood-road, Ely, Cardiff, was knocked down and killed by a London train on Wednesday morning. It is stated that the boy while crossing the line caught his foot in the points and was unable to escape before the express reached him. It appears that Martin had left school and was playing football in company with a number of boys. He was killed on the level crossing near the Ely Paint Works. The driver of the express reported the accident immediately on arrival at Cardiff, and the body was picked up by the Ely Station authorities, who had meanwhile notified the police. The body was later conveyed to the Cardiff mortuary. Mr. David DAVIES 72, deputy steward of the Wentsland and Bryngwyn Estate, Pontypool, was on Wednesday morning found by his wife lying dead in his bedroom at his residence, Innishmohr, Cwm Fields. A small jet of gas fire was turned on, and the nozzle is said to have been found in Mr. DAVIE'S mouth. He had been ill and in low spirits for some time. Mr. DAVIES came to Pontypool from Carmarthen as a young man, and had been engaged on the Wentsland Estate for nearly fifty years. For some years he was a member of the Pontypool Council. He held every office open to a lay-man in the High-street Wesleyan Church, and had been a local preacher for fifty-one years. Naomi GREEHALGH, 52, of 3, Adelaide-street, Crindau, Newport, was found dead beside a mangle at the back of her house. Dr. BURKE, who at the time attending a sister of the woman, made the discovery. It is believed that she had a heart asttack. John CHESHIRE, 54, Church-road, Risca, died at the Royal Gwent Hospital from the effect of extensive burns. It is stated that CHESHIRE, who was subject to fits, had a seizure and fell on the fire at home. On Wednesday the coroner (Mr. RHYS) held an inquest concerning the death of Thomas THOMAS, 31, of 66, Madeline-street, Pontygwaith, at Wattstown Colliery. He recorded a verdict of "Accidental death, due to a fall of stone, on the removal of coal." Sheltered for a few days by Mrs. LANE, wife of a Six Bells collier, out of charity, Walter GREAVES, a labourer, volunteered to go for meat for dinner and decamped with the £1 given him for the purchase, and a pair of the husband's boots. Eleven previous convictions were proved against GREAVES at Abertillery on Wednesday, when he was sentenced to two months' hard labour for stealing the money and the boots. Whilst a motor-car belonging to Dr. J.R. ARMSTRONG, of Treorky, was travelling along the Chepstow-Newport road towards Newport on Tuesdasy night, it swerved to the pathway and came into violent collision with the house of Mrs. LLEWELLYN at Langstone. The car was smashed, one of the windows of the house was knocked in, and the plaster was shaken from the walls and ceiling. By an extraordinary chance Dr. ARMSTRONG, who was in the car escaped unhurt. Miss Irene M. EVANS, Caerphilly, daughter of Mrs S. Annie EVANS and the late Captain Percy EVANS, B.M.G.O., has been awarded a certificate for needlework. A conference will be held in London on May 1, when the awards will be presented by Princess Mary Viscountess Lascelles. Alderman A.J. HOWELL is lying seriously ill at his residence, Maesycoed, Penylan, Cardiff, suffering from Pleurisy and pneumonia. This information was conveyed to the Cardiff Parliamentary Committee by the Lord Mayor (Alderman W.B. FRANCIS) on Wednesday, and the committee decided to forward to the alderman their sincere wishes for a speedy recovery. John Patrick