Western Mail Monday April 19th 1926. INQUEST- at Pyle. " If people carried out their proper duties, this man would have been safe." said Mr. Moses THOMAS (deputy coroner) at the inquest at Pyle on Saturday on J.H. COOK, colliery repairer, 4, Mackworth-road, Porthcawl, who met with an accident at Newlands Colliery on Friday. The colliery owners were represented by Mr. Dan PERKINS, Port Talbot; the Ministry of Mines by Mr. OWENS; and the South Wales Miners Federation by Mr. Page SQUIRES and Mr. Thomas JENKINS. John DAVIES, repairer, of 25, North-avenue, Kenfig Hill, said he was working about 25 yards higher up the slant than COOK when three trams got away. He did not go down; he was overcome by shock. He realised that something had happened, and later on going down as COOK, was being carried up on a stretcher. He had blocked the trams by putting a piece of timber across from a post to an old arm protruding from the ground, and considered that sufficient. Unfortunately, the protruding arm was only in the ground about 18 inches., and was, in consequence, not strong enough to hold the trams. He believed it was firmly embedded in the earth, and had tested it with a sledge. He did not use a chain because he did not have one, and agreed he had never asked for one. The only instruction he had received from the fireman or overman was to carry on with his work. He did not know until afterwards there was a chain twenty yards below. Robert BARHAM, colliery repairer, who had been working with COOK, said he heard trams coming down, and he and COOK jumped out of the way, but the tram fell on the side to which COOK had jumped. E. MORGAN, fireman, said he passed the men working on the slant, and, on inquiring, was told by the repairer that everything was all right. He did not make any examination. He did not notice if any chain was holding the tram. He agreed if he had made a proper examination and chains had been used the accident might have been averted. The company provided chains and hooks. John HARRISON, overman, gave evidence that he had given DAVIES no special instructions. He did not approve of the way he had used the arm to hold the block, it was absolutely unsafe method. There were chains provided. Dr. HANNAN attributed death to shock from grave external and internal injuries and extensive hemorrhage. In recording a verdict of "Accidental death," the deputy coroner remarked: "Somebody is responsible for this accident. The fireman has got his duties to perform for which he is paid. He did not carry out those duties. It was not sufficient for the fireman to ask if it was all right : a man is not paid a high salary for that." Mr. William GLASS, of Rhondda House, 139, Bute-street, Treherbert, ironmonger, who died on January 1st, aged 76 years, left  estate of the gross value of £1,339, with net personalty £145. Probate of the will, dated September 20, 1924, has been granted to his son, Mr. Albert Edward GLASS, of the same address, ironmonger, and Mr. Arthur Francis CRICK, of Custom House, Gloucester, Excise officer. Testator left his residence and his business as an ironmonger to his son Albert, £100 to his son William, £100 and certain furniture to his daughter, Caroline CRICK, and the residue of the property to his son Albert and his daughter Caroline in equal shares. Miss Caroline Elizabeth GIBBINS, of Edge Hill, near Neath, who died on February 9, aged 58 years, daughter of the late Mr. Frederick Joseph GIBBINS, left estate of the gross value of £14, 602, with net personalty £12,276. Probate of the will dated August 14, 1922, has been granted to her sister, Miss Margaret Winifred GIBBINS, of the same place, and her brother, Mr. Theodore GIBBINS, of Glynfelin, near Neath, manufacturer. The testatrix left- £1,000 to the Neath branch of the Christian Alliance of Women and Girls, or if the branch be non-existent, then the sum is to be paid to the Christian Alliance of Women and Girls of Great Britain. The residue of the property she left to her sister, Margaret Winifred GIBBINS. In Canada four-year-old Trevor JAMES, an orphan from a Glamorgan town, has found refuge from the desolation which threatened him following the death of his parents. Trevor's mother died when he was two years old, and his father two years later. He is now within the family of his uncle in Canada. Narrating the story of the child's transport from tragedy to hope, the "Montreal Star" states that when his father died "he found himself alone in a great silent house that was once a home-alone in Glamorgan." When Mr. T.J. JAMES, of Daneforth-avenue, Toronto, heard of his nephew's plight he cabled to friends to send the boy across the Atlantic on the White Star liner Doric. The ship was a new and wonderful world for Trevor, who was unofficially adfopted by officers and crew. Marvellous was the ocean, Trevor's joy at the things which were befalling him did not reach its height until he started on the 1,000 miles train journey from Halifax, where he was in the care of the Travellers' Aid Society. His uncle met him at Toronto, and the little Welsh lad found a haven from the distresses of his loss. John Patrick