VILLAGE OF TRAGEDY

Greymouth Evening Star, 14 April 1932, Page 5

VILLAGE OF TRAGEDY

FOUR DIE IN FOUR DAYS An air of tragedy recently depressed the little Cardiganshire village of Llanwenog. On four copsequtiye days the vicar, his churchwarden,- a deacon, and a local farmer died apd were buried in the village churchyard. All four were doing business in Llanbyther, an adjoining village, on one day. The next day the first of them died.

While the vicar was actually making the fuperal qrrpngepients he himself fell ill and died. The day following saw the third, pame added to tlie death-roll. Mews of the culminating tragedy wap received during the vicar’s “Timer al. Ojpe of the bearers failed to appear. -While pie coffin was being lpW^T d info the grave it typs made kpown that li'is body ha<l bqqn found hanging frojp a staircase ip Bwlch Bychan, a 'lpriply mansion" WPgre hp caretaker. " ’ . For thirty yqars the man hgs\ worked'alone ip the eerie of this deserted mansion. The houjffi is surrounded by fir trees, and insipe everything is as it was left when tpg last-tenant died three ago. the passage of tipie—and the bedg remain as they sqre made up 1902.” ip thp'ball soWebs cluster qg the heads of foxes, hares, and othgp trophies of the chase.