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IDANGEROUS PLACE TO BATHE…

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I DANGEROUS PLACE TO BATHE IN. Mr. D. Rees, the district coroner, held an inquest on the body, at Barry Island Police Station, on Saturday afternoon. The father of deceased, Mr. J. W., Jones, secretary of the Ammanford Co-operative Society, gave evidence of identification. The deceased was staying at Penarth on his holidays, and came to Barry for the day with his sister. Evidence was given by Lynn Nor- man Richards, a lad, of Taff's Well, staying at 10, Harbour-road, Barry, that he went with deceased to bathe in the Harbour, and instead of diving towards the shore the deceased, who could not swim, leaped outwards, and got beyond his depth. Deceased be- came frightened and shouted for help. Witness ran to the boat-house, and called the boatman, John Rogers, who waded into the water up to his shoulders, but could not get any fur- ther, as he had received injuries to his body lately. Witness then called to a lad named Evan Griffiths, of 108, Woodland-road, and asked if he could swim. Griffiths, fully dressed, at once jumped into the water, but could not find deceased. A lifebuoy was also procured, but as the de- ceased did not come to the surface it could not be used. George Reed, another boatman, said with the aid of grappling irons, he afterwards found the body of de- ceased and P.C. R. Diamond and Mrs. Taylor, of 4, Kenilworth-road, had the body removed to 5, Romilly Avenue, the residence of deceased's aunt. Dr. Gillon Irving was sum- moned, but pronounced life to be ex- tinct. The Coroner remarked that the old harbour was a dangerous place to bathe in, on account of the slope and the quicksand. Everything possible had been done to save the deceased, and it was a plucky act on the part of Evan Griffiths in swimming out, fully dressed, in an attempt to effect a rescue. A verdict of "Drowned whilst Bathing was returned.

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