The following articles were found in the Wilkes-Barre (PA) Record on the dates shown. If anyone is interested in receiving a copy of these, please send me your mailing address. (I've summarized some of the information.) (Instead of submitting this to any specific Mailing List, I am submitting it to the General list in the hopes that it will be seen by a more diverse group.) Thursday, 21 May 1896, Page 5 "An unusually sad end, surrounded by unusually sad circumstances, is the death of Owen D. Jones, an actor of this city, in Brooklyn...known all over the country as Edmund Drury, an actor of tragic and strong melodramatic parts. He fell in the water near Twenty-Third street about a week ago and his cries for help were heard by the captain and crew of the tug boat Comanche. A rope was thrown to the man, but he disappeared before it reached him. ...The unfortunate liquor habit, however, took hold of him and two years ago this summer he returned to this city and was in this vicinity quite a while, He went to a sanitarium and was apparently cured of the liquor habit. ... On Nov. 20, 1894, he married Miss Josephine Richards of Plymouth and she assisted him in his local theatricals. She also went on the stage with him in small parts when he left this city, but Mrs. Jones soon returned. Jones did not return with her and his friends lost track of him none of them knowing his whereabouts. ...Yesterday in the prothonotary's office was filed an application of divorce in which Mrs. Jones asked their marital relations be annulled. ..." Friday, 22 May 1896 "The news of the death of actor Owen D. Jones at Brooklyn is a severe shock to his aged father, John O. Jones of North Welles street, who has been an invalid for the past eighteen months. ...Owen D. Jones was born at Trefrew, North Wales, in 1861, and was 35 years of age. His mother died when he was a boy. ..." [Father died 8 Sep 1896. Article being posted separately.] Monday, 25 May 1896 "The Elmira Telegram said yesterday in a dispatch dated Wilkes-Barre: 'Speaking with a prominent lawyer regarding the death of actor Owen D. Jones, he said that it was all a hoax and that his wife is going right on with her divorce proceedings. It was said that a body was found in the North River his wife doesn't doubt, but it was not that of her husband. ..." Nancy Cook Pasadena, MD, USA