The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-06-26
BODY OF HAWKES. FOUND.
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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 ). 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 c. f. Mccarthy of
Greenfield, who lives in the house in
which Hawkes. and Miss Akley had
tenement, was notified. and he came after
the body about II O'Clock, taking it 20
Greenfield.
Funeral services Will be held at the
Mccarthy undertaking rooms on Bank
Row in Greenfield tomorrow at 40
o'clock, Rev. w. Henry Mclean, pastor
of the First Methodist church, otiiciat-
ing. The burial viii take place in Shell
burne Falls
Hawkes. was 81 years old and was EN-
ployed by the Greenfield Tap & Die Corp
He formerly was a mail carrier in Wal
pole, Y. 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
keep house for him. On account. it is
said, of his dislike toward a young man
who called on Miss Akley, Hawkes. told
her on Thursday, June -, that he
guessed he would 20 up home, meaning
Mr.. Alleys, and he left that afternoon
in his Chevrolet car.
Around ) o'clock that afternoon he
telephoned from the Office of the Brattle-
boro milk plant near the former Bradley
farm to Miss Akley TO come to Brattle-
boro after the car, saying she would find
it on the common. She asked where he
was going, but lie made no reply. Next
morning Miss Akley came here and found
the car as he had stated. After she had
LETT for Brattleboro a letter to her,
mailed here by Hawkes.. was delivered
at Greenfield. and Mr. Mccarthy at once
came here with it. The letter expressed
the hope that Miss Akley always would
be happy. asked her not to 90 to the
expense Of hunting for Hawkes., as he
wrote he never would he found. and in
it was some money, for which he wrote
he would have no further need. The
ear was taken to the Brattleboro
garage, and a search was made here in
Chesterfield and Westmorelaud, \. H..
Hawkes. having an adopted son IN the
last named place.
The only tangible clew to indicate
that Hawkes. might have committed
suicide was the finding of his revolver
holster in a lumber pile at the Chester
field end of the suspension bridge, two
miles north of here.
Late in the afternoon that Hawkes.
disappeared Mrs Clayton Gray of West
Chesterfield was driving toward Brattle-
boro when a man in a car passed her,
going in the same direction, and stopped
at the lumber piles near the suspension
bridge. When Mrs. Gray reached that
point the man was in between two piles
of lumber. Later he passed her again
on the Vermont side of the river, and
when she reached the common she saw
the abandoned car there. After reading
about HAWKES. disappearance Mrs
Gray told her brother, Lowell Wyckof,
who works for the Direct Importing Co.
here. and on his way here from West
Chesterfield to work Saturday the youny
man stopped at the lumber piles and
found the holster tucked in between
planks Miss Akley identified it as be-
longing to Hawkes..
Whether Hawkes. returned to the
suspension bridge and shot himself on
the bridge and fell into the river. or
whether he went to the three bridges or
to some other point nobody knows.