Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2024 All Rights Reserved USGenNet Data Repository Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ =========================================================================== Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== Lafayette Weekly Courier Friday, 15 September 1916 Despondent because his wife had filed suit for divorce, WILLIAM QUINN EVANS committed suicide Saturday night at the home of his mother, MRS. BELLE EVANS, 203 North Eighteenth street, by taking carbolic acid. He returned to his home at 10:30 o'clock and his mother, who had re- tired for the night, heard him talking to him- self and got up. As she entered the sitting room he placed an ounce vial to his lips and with the remark "This will end it all," poured the con- tents down his throat. He died fifteen minutes later. His face and neck were burned by the acid. MRS. EVANS, when she realized what her son had done, rushed to his side and knocked the vial from his hands. EVANS did not speak after he swallowed the deadly drug. He was sitting in a chair at the time and when his mother ran to the home of JOSEPH PAULEY, next door, to summon help he fell to the floor. Dr. Harry J. Laws was called and when he arrived EVANS was beyond medical aid. The body was viewed by Coroner Earl Van Reed, after which it was taken to the Frank & Son par- lors to be prepared for burial. EVANS had had considerable domestic trouble during the past year and recently his wife filed suit for di- vorce. The deceased was born in this city thirty years ago. He was last employed at the Corwin Electric Works. He is survived by his mother, MRS. BELLE EVANS, a widow and five small child- ren and two brothers and a sister, CLARK and RAY EVANS and MISS DAISY EVANS, who is a nurse at the Methodist hospital in Indianapolis. His father, QUINN EVANS, lives in Los Angeles, Cal. The funeral was held from the Frank & Son par- lors Monday afternoon, Rev. G. W. Watson of- ficiating. Interment in Greenbush cemetery. ===============================================================================