SUICIDE OF A DOCTOR

                 AT ABERFFRAW.

On Tuesday night, 11th inst. Dr. William Evans Thomas, aged 33, late of 190, Green-Street, Victoria Park, London, returned home in company of his father. Mr Henry Parry Thomas, chemist and postmaster, Aberffraw. He was not very well and spent the night with his father. Mr. Thomas senior thought it advisable to watch him.  While his father was talking to Mr. Wm. Jones, Ty Croes, in the shop, the deceased was seen going behind the counter with his pipe in his hand, and after taking something from a drawer, he left. His father followed him in a few minutes, and failing to find his father downstairs, he went into his (the father’s) bedroom and there he found him lying on the bed dead.He had taken an ounce bottle of prussic acid from the shop, and had swallowed about half its contents. An inquest was held on Thursday by Mr B. Jones Roberts, county coroner, and the jury, of whom Mr R Jones, Bodfeirig, was foreman, returned a verdict of suicide during temporary insanity. Much sympathy is felt for the father and relatives of the deceased.                                

Holyhead Mail –   March? 1889