Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1906 — PREFERS DEATH TO BLINDNESS [ARTICLE]

PREFERS DEATH TO BLINDNESS

Thomas Jones, Pittsburg Steel King, J Fearing Loss of Sight, Kills Himself. Pittsburg, June 7. — Knowing that all Ms money' could not buy him a cure for the disease from which be be.lieved he was tiecoming blind, Thomas O’Conor Jones, heir to $50,000,000, worth several millions in his own right, and one of the heads of the great Jones & Laughlin Steel company, Committed suicide in the Hotel Schenley by shooting. A social favorite, a large owner In a prosperous business, with only thirty-eight years of his life elapsed, and with everything he could desire, except health, the prospect of loss of sight, couplQd with the fear that the nervous trouble with which he was afflicted would drive him insane, he concluded to end his life. Jones for some years had been associated with B. F. Jones,. Jr., in handling the immense business of the Jones & Laughlin company, which has the largest independent mills in the country.