ANOTHER ACCIDENT AT THE "WORLD'S FAIR"
At 10 minutes past nine on Tuesday evening a seaman, named Albert Newcombe, employed on board the s.s. Briscoe, while swinging in one of the swings at the World's Fair, Penarth-road, accidentally fell out, and sustained severe injuries to the head and neck. P.C. Latham conveyed the man to the Infirmary, where he was detained.
SOURCE: South Wales Daily News 6th April 1892
DEATH AT CARDIFF WORK- HOUSE.
Mr. Greenhalgh, master of the union workhouse, Cardiff, has reported the death of Albert Thomas Newcombe, which took place at the union hospital on Friday. The deceased on the 2nd of April last fell from an aerial flight at the World's Fair, and sustained injuries to his spine. He was taken to the Cardiff Infirmary, and was under treatment at that institution until the 14th of July, when he was removed to the union hospital. He, however, made no progress, and died on Friday morning at eleven o'clock
SOURCE: Evening Express 26th November 1892
FATAL ACCIDENT AT "THE WORLD'S FAIR," CARDIFF
On Saturday afternoon at the Cardiff Workhouse the coroner for the district- held an inquiry into the circumstances, attending the death of Alfred Thomas Newcombe, a' ship's fireman, 27 years of age, belonging to South Shields. It appeared from the evidence that in April Inst the deceased fell from an aerial flight or trapeze wire stationed at the "World's Fair" on the Penarth-road, and injured himself severely. He was taken to the infirmary in an unconscious state, and in July was removed to the workhouse, where he died on Friday from the effects of injury to the spine, which Dr. Sheen deposed might have been caused by the fall. A verdict of Accidental death was returned.
SOURCE: Evening Express 28th November 1892