The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-08-05
Barber at Winthrop Harbor Be.
Iieves He Shaved Judge
CIarksoa Two Weeks Ago
NO TRACE In HUBBARD WOODS.
John Burns Believes That if Clarkson
Had His Beard Taken Off Present
Clues Are Of Little
Use in the Hunt
(From Thursday s Daily

!
Judge Joseph r. Clarkson was found
at Winthrop Harbor on Wednesday
when John Burns who has been close
ly following the trail Of the missing
man found a barber who declares that
he shaved Clarkson s beard off some
time within the last two weeks. The
lbarber does not remember the date.
| but he insists that a man closely fol
lowing the description Of Judge Clark
son came into his shop and had his
beard shaved off. The story is a lit
tie lame in that the baber stated that
he thought that the beard had been
growing for about six weeks. The
beard worn by the missing judge was
not a heavy one and it would have
been easy for an amateur in the ton
serial line to have considered it a.
growth of month or six weeks. One
thing is certain and that is that if
Judge Clarkson had his beard shaved
off all the clues that have been heard
from in the neighborhood Of Glencoe
are of no value as all of the people
who claim to have seen Judge Clark
son in this section declare that he
had a beard.
Burns started out this morning with
a view Of making certain in regard
to the story of the Winthrop Harbor
bbarber. 1t is regarded as pretty GER
tain that the missing judge was in the
neighborhood of Winthrop Harbor ten
days ago and this clue has been con
sidereu by his friends as the most
valuable found as yet, There was
nothing to the statement that Clark
son had been seen at the Hubbard
Woods late Tuesday for when Mr..
Burns investigated the story on We'd
nesday he found that the man seen
did not answer the description of the
missing judge.
A telegram from Memphis, Tenn,
shows a remarkable parallel to the dis
appearance of Judge Clarkson which
has just ended happily The story of
tine Memphis man IS disappearance and
MS return is told in telegram from
Memphis as follows:
"Mysteriously missing since Feb. 8,
his family believing he had met with
foul. play, HI. L. helms, 50 years old,
farmer of Tacaleeche, Benton county,
Miss, has been located at New Albany,
Miss, through the Memphis police de-
partment. helms, who served in the
Fifteenth Alabama in the war between
the states, a survivor Of the battles
OF Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge and
Bull Run, is sufferer from a peculiar
mental alteration, and will be brought
to Memphis sanatorium tomorrow by
his son. The case puzzles neurologists.
"Apparently in the best of health
and spirits, Mr.. helms left his home
in Tacaleeche, Miss, fourteen miles
distant, to have his watch repaired.
When he failed, to return home in a
reasonable length of time, his family
became worried greatly. The police
of half dozen cities were notified to
be on the lookout for the missing man.
Unwilling to believe his father had
met tragic death, w. helms assisted
the Memphis police in searching for
! the missing man. Postal cards and
4 circulars bearing the likeness and de-
scrfption of Mr.. helms were sent
broadcast. soon after the strange dis
appearance.
No trace, however, was found until
yesterday. city Marshal Rowell Of
New Albany, Miss, found Mr.. helms
wandering aimlessly about on the
streets. After communicating with
Nelms' son, in Memphis, City Marshal
Rowell accompanied the aged man to
his home, where a joyful welcome
awaited him.
From the time I went into a
jewelry store in New Albany last
February to have my watch fixed ex-
planned Mr.. helms over the telephone
last night, until now, my mind has
been blank. I am sure I dldn It know
who I was, or where | was. would
certainly like to know where / put in
my time and what / did during that
time. [ have sort of vague idea
that | was in Holly Springs, Miss, but
l am not sure about that'u
MAN NOT CLARKsoN
(From Fridays Daily
Another Clarkson clue was run to
earth this morning and proved worth
less in solving the mystery attending
the disappearance OF the we'll known
Kenosha attorney. Just before six
0 clock this morning Ben Jensen. a
i farmer residing OH the Sheridan road
six miles south os keuosha, notified
the police that nian wLc he felt cen-
WINGED was tho missing kenosla man
had been seen abort his farm during
the early hours Of the morn,lg Tie
report caused censiSs:as.:s sxcisern,:7t
among L.. fricn9s os tie II i-s;sg la,ey-
er anc within la,f al hoa- afs1s til
report had teeli received in tic city
two automobiles had left for the Jen.