Western Mail Friday April 30th 1926.
How an Ebbw Vale man disappointed his fiancee was told to the bench there on Thursday when
Miriam PRATTEN, of Newtown, Ebbw Vale, summoned Alfred ROSE 22, collier, Ebbw Vale, with
respect to her child. Mr. W.A. JONES, Ebbw Vale was for the complainant. Defendant did not
appear.
Complainant said that ROSE was the father of her child. The summons was issued for a
hearing a month ago and an adjournment was then granted because he promised to marry her.
They arranged for the marriage to take place at the Tredegar Registry Office on April 7.
He was at her house on the 6th they had supper together, and made the final arrangements
by which he was to meet her so that they could go together to the registry office. She
turned up the next morning but he did not appear.
The Bench made an order for 6s.6d. a week, with three guineas cost and the court fees.
A verdict of "Suicide whilst temporarily insane" was recorded by the coroner
(Mr. D.J. TREASURE) at the inquest on David DAVIES 71, deputy-steward of the Wentsland and
Bryngwyn Estate, who was found dead in his bedroom on Wednesday near an open gas jet.
Stanley DAVIES, a son, said his father had been ill and depressed since he had a nervous
breakdown two years ago. His accounts were all in order, and his domestic affairs gave him
not the slightest cause for worry. He found his father lying on the ground covered with a
coat and an eiderdown quilt near an open gas jet. Witness wished especially to pay tribute
to his mother for her devotion to his father for such a long period. Her devotion was
outstanding
Mr.W.H.V. BYTHWAY (solicitor) said the lords of the manor could not have had a better
servant than Mr. DAVIES during his 50 years in Pontypool.
A railwaymans' widow, Mrs SPICER, who lived alone in a house in Five Dells-lane,
Bridgend, had not been seen about for some days, and neighbours becoming suspicious,
informed the police.
When the door of the house was forced open, Mrs SPICER was found lying in the bedroom in
an unconscious condition. It was found that she was still alive, and Dr. JeffreyJONES, who
was called in, ordered her removal to the Bridgend Workhouse Infirmary.
As far as can be ascertained Mrs. SPICER has no relatives in Bridgend. She had been in
failing health for some time.
There was a fatal accident in Queen-street, Cardiff, on Thursday afternoon, a man named W.
BARRON 52, of Angus-street, was knocked down by a bicycle and later that night he died at
the Royal Infirmary from a fracture of the base of the skull. He was knocked down when he
was standing between two stationary tram-cars near the Empire during a busy portion of the
day. He was struck in the thigh, and the impact threw him so heavily that his head came in
contact with the side of one of the cars.
Several people were slightly injured in a motor accident which occurred in Park-street,
Bridgend, on Thursday. The road had been freshly tarred, and Mr. J.T. COOK, fishmonger, of
Taibach, was driving a car, accompanied by his wife and mother-in-law, Mrs. Sarah EVANS.
The car skidded on the loose gravel, veered round, and fell over on its side. In its skid
it collided with another car driven by by Albert WAITE, chauffeur in the employ of Dr.
WILLIAMS, Tonypandy. He was driving Mrs. WILLIAMS and Mrs MULLINS. None of the occupants
of the cars was seriously injured, but COOK, his wife, and mother-in-law received cuts and
suffered from shock.
Mr. D.J. TREASURE recorded a verdict of "Accidental death" at the inquest at
Pontypool on Thursday on Sidney William WALL 29, sheet-worker, of Griffithstown, who died
from a fractured skull after a motor-cycle accident on Saturday.
Samuel ERVANS, a steelworker, who was with WALL on another motor-cycle said that just
after WALL had passed him on the way to Newport at a speed of 30 to 35 miles an hour, his
machine started to wobble, then skidded and crashed into a tree and telegraph post on the
left-hand side of the road.
The new chairman of the Nantyglo and Blaina Urban District Council, Mr. Llewellyn
WILLIAMS, was born at Nantyglo, where he has spent the whole of his life. He worked in the
mines from twelve years of age until the genersl stoppage at the colliery five years ago,
and during the past three years he has been assistant relieving officer under the
Bedwellty Board of Guardians, of which he had previously been for seven years a member. He
has for over ten years been a member of the council hat has now appointed him as its
chairman. He filled the position of the Griffin Colliery Lodge for several years, and was
afterwards secretary.
Mr. Joseph HERBERT 48, of 9, Chepstow-road, Cwmparc, a colliery rider, died at the Pentwyn
Cottage Hospital, Treorky, of fatal injuries received in an accident at the Dare Ocean
Colliery in the early hours of Thursday morning.
Mr. C. SEELEY, who is at present a student at Cardiff Medical College, and plays centre
three-quarter for Abertillery Rugby Club, has been awarded a Lord Kitchener National
Memorial Fund Scholarship value £125 per annum, for four-and-a-half years at St.
Mary's Hospital, London, from October 1 next. He is the second son of Mrs. E.J.
SEELEY, headmistress of Abertillery Church School (where he received his early education),
and subsequently attended Abertillery County School, Hereford Cathedral College, and
Cardiff Medical College.
John Patrick