SPOT OF DEATH
,-MAN’S DREAD FULFILLED
What is the death secret of a certain spot on the road at Cwmllyntell, South Wales? Why did a man so dread the spot tliat ho would go miles out ol his way to avoid it; and yet at last met his death, them? Why ,do the date, November ',‘J, and-'the mystical period,' seven years, figure in these coincidences i ■ Mr./Joluli,Davies, of Yslnulgyn. lais Glamorganshire, who was accidentally ■ killed ait this spot while motoring home from a lunenjl, was iuVoiced in a fatal accident to a boy-at' the same spot on November 3J92d. -He himself was killed Lhor v on. November 1.1, 1929, exactly seven years -later. >■ • Up -had dreaded the spot and avoided it since the hoy was killed. Otherwise, lie was a hard-headed man without fancies or superstitions. ■ ■
7 iJiit (oil November 13, just seven years after the accident that had filled 1 him with this mysterious dread, lie happened to lie, travelling front, a funeral past the very spot ■As he roa'chcd it Mr. Davies companions saw the door of the car —--which had been shut, apparently, wit|i. hi' double-lock handle—suddenly hurst open, and their friend fall into the road. He died live,, minutes later.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXX, Issue 11124, 6 February 1930, Page 2
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