Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1906-06-06
0EIR TO MILLIONS A SUICIDE
Thomas o Jones of Pittsburg
Pa, Shoots Himself
WAS I'LL OF NERVOUS DISORDER
And Was About to Go to a
Retreat.
Arose At an Early Hour In the Morning
and shot Himself in the Head-Was
Very Rich Man ana Heir TO Millions.

Pttsbmg. Pa, June 5.-Thomas
OConor Jones. assistant general manager
and practically head of the Jones S
Laughhn Steel Co. in the absence of his
cousin, President B. F. Jones, Jr., COM
mitted suicide this morning at 4 o'clock at
the Hotel Sohenley where he lived, by
shooting himself through the head
His mother, Mrs Cecilia c. Jones Muir
dock who was IN am adjoining room ran
into his apartment and raised his head
from the pillow just as he breathed his last.
Every effort was made to prevent the
fact that Mr.. Jones had taken his life from
becoming public. The coroner's Office
was not notified until after Q O'Clock. Then
on attempt was made to have Chief Deputy
Coroner Lowe suppress the facts, but he
refused
In his 36th year. heir to a fortune esti-
mated conservatively at $1,000 600 many
times a millionaire in his own right, one of
the foremost steel experts in the United
States, Mr.. Jones had everything to live
| for
He did not leave a scratch of a pen to
tell why he had taken his life, and he died
in his mothers arms without utterlng a
word.
For some time Mr.. Jones had been i'll
/
| feared that he would be driven mad and
recently imgined that he was going blind
| II is believed that these worries were re-
sponsible for his taking his life.
| All arrangements had been completed
for taking him to Cambridge Springs, Pa,
this morning. Last night his mother
went through all of his effecN in his room,
preparatory TO packing the trunks and
found no weapon OF any kind. In some
] manner, however he got revolver. The
| coroner believes that it was smuggled into
his room bv some of the hotel attaches.
The revolver with which he killed himself
was cheap ono OF .3S calibre, and not the
kind of weapon which n man of wealth
would buy.
When Deputy Coroner Richard Carney
arrived at the hotel this morning it was
| unmistakably a case of suicide. Three
witnesses were examined. The mother
of the dead man made the following state
ment:
Last night l went into my sons room
to give him his medicine. He was cheer
ful and talked with me. AT , O'Clock
this morning / again entered his room
He was seated az the window / talked
with him some little time and then went
to nv room and retired. He seemed 10
| It OH AAkNAN NAANAA a ANNN ANAtAAf rhN Nt'Nt'
/ was awakened by a pistol shot and hur.
ried into his room, where l found him
dying.
The statements of Manager Jane.
Riley of the hotel and DR.. T. NJ I. Nc
Keenan,. a nerve specialist who was at.
{ tending Mr. Jones and who was sum
moned Immediately after his death, wer,
merely to the effect that they had found
him dead
$. F. James, Jr. his cousin and business
partner made the following statement:
/ eve are all horrifed at the suicide o
my cousin Tom. / am at loss to under
/ stand why he should have taken his life
He had been III for some time, suffering
from nervous disorder. He had beer
having trouble with his eyes and feared
that he would 60 blind He also feare,
/ that his nervous trouble would drive him
insane. These are the only reasons that VI
know of for his taking his life. Ii is on
, instance in which YOU can truthiully sa.
/ that there was no woman in the case.
Thomas OOonor Jones, after attending
] minor colleges, graduated from Yale AM