STRANGE DELUSION
WEALTHY WELSHMAN. BELIEVED HE WAS RUINED. (Received 10 a.m.) LONDON, February i. Evidence was given at the inquest concerning the death of Mr. Evan Jones that after receiving £150,0001 from the sale of his estate he declared that the. money would have to go ta 1 creditors and the family would be' penniless. This delusion was due- to illness, as he left £250,000. A verdict, was returned of suicide ' whilst of unsound mind.—A. and N.ZL- ' Mr. Evan Jones, of Llanelly, was found on December 20 last hanging from a tree in a quarry near his residence. The deceased was described as a modern Dick Whittington, He began life as a draper's boy, and afterwards became a shipowner and colliery proprietor.
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Northern Advocate, 6 February 1926, Page 5
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122STRANGE DELUSION Northern Advocate, 6 February 1926, Page 5
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