According to a letter to the Editor of the Brisbane Times by someone called himself "HUMANE".in January 1844, the following story emerged:
John Evans left Langlo Downs for Charleville in good health, for the purpose of having a spell, with 40 or 50 pounds on him. Arriving at Langlo Crossing, he found the coach for Charleville full. He had to wait for the next one. He then commenced drinking, and from that time to the time of his death, he had nothing to sustain life but bush grog. He laid under a waggon in a filthy condition till the day before he died, death evidently being caused by bad grog and gross neglect. The persons who supplied him with grog never offered
to tender him my assistance till too late, yet they were told what a state he was in, and must have seen it themselves.
John Evans was a very quiet inoffensive, industrious man. A sort of inquiry was made, and it was stated that the deceased was in bad health, and died from natural causes, which is nonsense. He was retching and vomiting till his death.
The article continued: "A few weeks ago, a man left the same place under the influence of drink, and was found some time after by a stockman, dead and putrid, not a great way from the Charleville road. I suppose that man died through natural causes ... "
