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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 107, 9 May 1867, Page 2

Ou the night of the 6th of December, 1865, a resident at Shrewsbury, named Evans, left the house of a friend with the intention of returning home, but mysteriously disappeared on the way, and was never again seen, either dead or alive. Tbe affair created some excitement at the time, and a reward was offered for aDy in formation that might lead to a solution 0 f the mystery, bufc none transpired, and it was at length concluded that Mr. Evans had fallen into the Severn, and that his body had been carried away by the stream. His wife, however, steadfastly refused to believe in his death, and even continued to pay his usual subscription to the club of which he was a member, in the expectation of his ultimate return. After a lapse of 14 months, all doubt has now been set at rest by the discovery of the body of the unfortunate man in the Severn, at a place calledCressage, six miles distant from the spot where he probably fell in. An old woman gathering wood on the bank accidentally caught sight of It clinging with outstretched arms to some bushes which had arrested its further progress down the stream. The only articles. of clothing remaining upon it •were a necktie, a collar, a pair of stockings, and a surgical elastic sock on the left leg. Mrs. Evans arrived afc Cressngo on Thursday, and was at onco enabled to to identify the body of her long-lost husband by means of the elastic sock. There were no marks of violence upon the body, and, considering the long period during which it had been in the water, it was iu a remarkable state of preservation. — Times, February 9.