Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1922-06-30
BODY Or HAWKES.
FOUND In RIVER
Bullet Hole in Eye Showed
Death Due to Suicide
Stone Fastened About Waist-Appar-
emily Intended Body Never TO BE
FOunG-Dissappeare Here limo TX

r"uH"-DlssapDeared Here June 10
With rock tied around his waist and
a bullet hole in his head, the BODY of
Charles ). Hawkes. of Greenfield, Mass,
who disappeared in Bratteboro Thurs
gay night, June 10, after telephoning TO
h hnso ho9sckeeeper in Greenfield to come
mere after his automobile, was found
Saturday night lodged against the flash
boards on the Connecticut River Power
COS dam which crosses the river from
Vernon to Hinsdae n. II.
The body was found by Leon Pickett.
an employe at the power plant. who
was crossing the dam in the evening to
go, 20 his home on the Hinsdale side.
Nhen somewhat more than half way
across the river Mr.. Pickett saw the
body among some driftwood which had
been stopped by the flashboards, He re-
turned to the power house and notified
the llinsdale sclectmen by telephone
and they and the medical examiner went
to the dam by way of Brattleboro and
gave permission for the removal of the
body, which was drawn in the water to
the Vermont side and then taken out.
large stone, 20 inches long by 10
inches wide and about six inches thick
which would weigh not far from 20
pounds. was found tied about the waist
from which it was apparent that Hawkes.
did not intend that his body should rise
ing. it is probable that the whereabouts
of his body would have remained mys-
terry, but a bullet hole in his right eve
showed that death was due to shooting,
which prevented the displacement of the
air in his lungs with water, and in due
time the body arose as the result of nat
ural laws, despite the weight of the
stone.
On the evening of his disappearance
Hawkes. wrote letter to his house
Keeper. Miss Ruth Akley of Marlboro.
who was his housekeeper in Greenfield.
telling her not to look for him as he
never would be found. He did not say
he intended to commit suicide, but it was
assumed that he planned to do so as he
enclosed some money and said he should
have no further use for it.
After the body had been taken from
the river search in the pockets of the
clothing revealed an Odd Fellows mem
bership certificate bearing the name of
Charles s. Hawkes., also an automobile
registration card bearing the same name.
Identification was established by this
means. With the exception of the
hands the body was not decomposed.
When identification had been estab-
lished Undertaken @. Il. Mccarthy of
Greenfield, who lives in the house in
which Hawkes. and Miss Akley had a
tenement. was notified. and he came after
\ Greenfield.
Funeral services were held at the
Mccarthy undertaking rooms on Bank
Row in Greenfield Tuesday at 100
o'clock, Rev. w. Henry Mclean, pastor
of the First Methodist church. ofciat-
ing, The burial took place in Shelburne
Falls.
Hawkes. was G2 years old and was en-.
ployed by the Greenfield Tap & Die Corp.
He formerly was a mail carrier in Wal
pole, N. H., where his wife died eight
| years ago. After her death his niece.
Miss Ruth Akley, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Clifford Akley of Marlboro, went to
keen house for him. On account, it is
SAID, of his dislike toward young man
who called on Miss Akley Hawkes. told
her on Thursday, June Is, that he
guessed he would 90 mp home, meaning
Mr.: Alleys. and he left that afternoon
in his Chevrolet car.