The Return of Mrs. Bevan: The “Dead” Woman Who Came Home
The Return of Mrs. Bevan: The “Dead” Woman Who Came Home South Wales Daily Post As reported in the South Wales Daily Post in July 1926 , the extraordinary case of Mrs. Hannah Hughes Bevan —the Swansea woman long believed to have drowned—returned to public attention with astonishing force when she stepped ashore in England, very much alive. Her arrival aboard the New Zealand Shipping Company’s liner Remuera placed her immediately under police supervision, for she now faced charges of conspiring to defraud the Prudential Assurance Company of £2,881 13s. 6d. —a sum equivalent to about £150,000 today , underscoring the gravity and national interest of the case. A Death That Never Was In 1922 , her clothing was found neatly arranged in a cave at Ilfracombe. The sea was searched, inquiries made, and her death presumed. The Prudential paid out nearly £3,000 —a life‑changing amount at the time, and a modern equivalent of a substantial fortune. But four years later, Mrs. Bevan was discovered...
