Western Mail Wednesday April 7th 1926.
A gardener named Joseph ABBOTT, employed on the Gnoll Estate, Neath, had a terrifying
experience on Tuesday afternoon.
He was engaged on the top of a tree 80ft high, sawing some branches, when one of them
pinned him to the trunk, so that he was helpless.
The people about the spot were unable to give any help owing to the great height, so the
Neath Fire Brigade was requisitioned. When they arrived their ladders were too short, and
eventually a man named David EVANS climbed to the top with a rope with which the injured
man was lowered.
He was attended to by Drs. EVANS and WALTERS, who found bruises on the ribs, hands, and
feet.
He was taken to his home, a cottage on the estate.
The King sent his congratulations to Mrs. BRAIGHTON JONES, of Wrexham, who celebrated her
100th birthday on Monday April 5th.
Miss. M.E. Lilian JONES, of Llangain Vicarage, Carmarthen, on her twenty-first birthday
received valuable presents, including a solid silver tray from the tennants of Greencastle
and other friends.
Watford Vawr Farm, on the slopes of the Caerphilly mountain, carries with it a very
interesting association. It was here that a conference was held , presided over by George
WHITFIELD, and supported by Williams PANTYCELYN, which marked the foundation of Welsh
Methodism.
Some fragments of thin red brick which are built into the exterior walls of
Llanfair-ar-y-Bryn Church (near Llandovery) have been declared by expert archaeologists to
be Roman. It is in this finely-situated old church that Wales' greatest hymnist
Williams PANTYCELYN lies buried.
A distressing accident occurred at Castleden on Tuesday afternoon when Miss Muriel CRANE
18, of Claremont, Penarth, received a gun shot wound in the chest. She was removed to the
Cardiff Royal Infirmary, where the bullet was extracted, but late last night her condition
was causing some anxiety.
Miss CRANE, with three friends, was practising with a rifle. The safety-catch of the
weapon was accidentally knocked out of position and one of her friends picked it up and in
turning around accidentally released the trigger.
Leonard John WEBB, Poplar-avenue, Porthcawl, was at Neath, on Tuesday fined £10, and his
licence endorsed for driving a motor-car recklessly at Croft-road, Neath, on February
22nd. Mr. F.C. SHACKEL, Cardiff, defended
Chief-constable RAWLINGS said that Stanley Leonard YOUNG, of Twyn Coch, was motor-cycling
home from Neath when he was knocked down by defendant's car, which was being driven on
the wrong side of the road. He was badly injured, and although defendant knew that he
knocked someone down, because several people shouted to him he did not stop.
When intercepted at Briton Ferry, he admitted he had knocked somebody down.
Stanley Leonard YOUNG, the injured man, and Ivor GOSLING, an eye-witness, gave evidence.
David JONES, manager of the Automobile Company at Neath, said he saw defendant the next
morning, but said he did not stop because he was in a hurry to get to Briton Ferry.
When his motor-cycle ran into the curb on the Clydach-road, on Monday afternoon John
Joseph MORGAN 24, of Vargwr-place, Morriston, Swansea, was flung a distance of 24 feet on
to a path. He was picked up unconscious and taken to Swansea Hospital and detained,
suffering from injuries to face and head.
William EVANS, a coal trimmer, of 2, Brunel-street, Newport died at the Royal Gwent
Hospital on Tuesday from severe injuries to the head, caused by colliding with a telegraph
post whilst motor-cycling on the Cardiff-Newport road, near the Gaer, just outside the
Newport borough boundary the previous night.
A verdict of "Accidental death" was returned at an inquest on the eight-year-old
victim of an Ogmore Vale tragedy. The lad, whose name was GRAY, of Gorwyl-road, ran in
front of a charabanc on Friday afternoon near the Workman's Hall, Ogmore Vale. The
driver was exonerated.
John Patrick.