HUSBAND’S TRAGIC DISCOVERY

WIFE FOUND DYING IN THE KITCHEN

FRONT DOOR THAT WAS LOCKED

In a sorrowful domestic tragedy reported by the South Wales Daily Post in July 1929, Swansea was shaken on Monday evening by the death of Mrs. Jessie Hill, wife of the well‑known Swansea and Welsh International bowls skip Mr. Evan Hill, confectioner of 88 High Street. Returning home from town, Mr. Hill found the front door locked, and, unable to gain entry, climbed through the back window, where he was met by a scene of profound distress: his wife lying unconscious upon the kitchen floor, a bottle of Lysol close at hand.

Despite urgent efforts to summon medical assistance, Mrs. Hill passed away before Dr. Harrington could arrive.

Aged 49, she had been in delicate health since the death of her mother some months earlier. Yet earlier that same day she had attended a wedding and later gone into town, giving no outward sign of the tragedy that would follow.

Swansea stands with the bereaved husband, whose discovery remains one of the town’s most poignant domestic sorrows of the year.