HANGED MAN’S WILL
CHILDREN XO READ FRUGAL LIVES. I recommend that my children should lead sober, industrious, and frugal lives, and emulate their lather in the development of industries, so as to be of some benefit to their fel-low-men. This exhortation to his two sons and daughter appears in the will of Mr Evan Jones, of the Plas, Trimsaran, Kidwelly. Carmarthenshire, who was found hanging from a tree in a wood on his estate at Tnmsaran, on December 18 last. He left unsettled property of the gross value of £357,437 with nett personality £228,266. Beginning life as a draper s assistant. Mr Jones became interested in the coal and steel industries, and was at one time reputed to be a millionaire.
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Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 3493, 1 November 1926, Page 15
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