The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-03-09
HAWKES. and GIRL
STILL MISSING
Their Whereabouts Have Not
Been Learned Here.
WERE SEEN In WASHINGTON
A Couple Answering the Description Of the
Young husband and Pretty Miss
Hattie Gibbons Seen Near
the Station.

Three days have elapsed since Freder-
lex c. Hawkes. came home from his work
at the American Can Company's factory
and after changing his work-worn gar
ments, affectionatelyz embraced his pretty
wife and told her he was going out to do
favor for a friend. He turned and kissed
his three young children good night. He
stepped from the front door out into the
street and since that time only one trace
of Hawkes. has been found. He was seen
in Washington at the Pennsylvania de-
pot with a girl presumably Miss Hattie
Gibbons, of North Twenty-third Street.
this city, to whom Hawkes. had clandes-
timely been paying attention while at home
his wife sat and in all her thoughts idol
lied him.
SEEN. IN WASHINGTON.
Mr.. Fred Spurs worked at the can fac
tory and so did Miss Gibbons. They were
sweethearts: were engaged to be mar
RED and when the news came that Miss
Gibbons had disappeared the same night
"wednesday that Hawkes. babe his fam
lily goodbye the young lover realized that
his heart had been juggled with by the
girl. When Mr.. Spurs heard of the dis
appearance of Hawkes. and Miss Gibbons
he at once surmised an elopement and
determined to go to Washington. There
a man and a young woman answering the
description OF the couple had been seen
at the Pennsylvania depot by the
station hands. AT the depot all trace
of the couple was lost. Mr.. Spurs visited
all the hotels at the Capital. He inquired
of the clerks and employees; he visited
the police headquarters and incidentally
questioned a number of hackaen, but
none of them had waited upon or seen
any one answering the description OF
the couple.
The opinion is held by Mrs. Hawkes.
and Mr.. Spurs that the couple did not
stop in Washington for any length of
time, but continued on to Baltimore where
Hawkes. has worked and is well acquaint-
ed with the town. There is another sur
mise that New York or New Haven is
their destination, as Miss Gibbons had
been heard to remark shortly before she
went away that she would before long
be in New York.
The Detective Department was notified
OF the elopelnent yesterday morning and
Captain Alex Tomlinson is at work upon
tho case. He has followed the usual
procedure in such cases of sending out
descriptions and photogra phs Of the cou-
pie.
A rather startling feature Of the case
as it now stands is that should Hawkes.
and Miss Gibbons be apprehended out
side of the State they could not be
brought back. The legal understanding
between States does not make the breach
of such laws of enough moment to allow
Of a rcquisition.
TALK WITH THE WIFE.
Mrs. Hawkes. was seen at her home, No.
o203 Short @ Street, yesterday morning
She denied the statement made Friday
that she had spent Thursday night at
Mrs. A1cDowell's. near Seven Pines.
II am from Baltimore" she said with
all the pride of a Marylander, but my,
family is now living at Columbus, o.
met my husband at Baltimore and we We're
married there with the consent of my
parents, and we have always lived hap
PLY. T don't know what to make of
Fred. He must have been hypnotized by
the pretty vixen. OH
..Bow would you receive your husband
| should he return?' was asked Mrs.
| Hawkes..
Il will never take him back. He shall
never darken my door. He shall never
| see his children"
| And in the next breath Mrs. Frederick
| G Hawkes. said:
"I idolize that man. I will always
| love him. No other will ever be petted
nv me as he has. God bless him.
| Mrs. Hawkes. says her husband covered
| every movement before his departure in
| a way that did not once arouse her Slls-
| picion. One OF her children is quite sick,
| but as soon as it RECEIVERS she intends to
find employment.
The affair has created considerable eX-
| citement i'll Paramount and on Church
| Hill, as tho families of both parties are
well known, and their action cannot be
reasonably accounted for.