From the Clarion-Ledger, Jackson, Miss., June 12, 1923, p. 1:
The friends of Charles E. Hooker, a well known figure on the streets of this city, are very much distressed about him and fear for his safety, since finding his coat near the banks of Pearl River Saturday morning. The coat was found about a half mile north of the state fairgrounds under a big tree which was about 100 yards from the river.
Mr. Hooker has been missing, and no one seems to know of his whereabouts, since about the middle of last week. His coat contained some letters by which it was identified, a collar, a pair of socks and a necktie. In one of the letters, two news-stand checks were found, and Assistant Chief of Police Ross, accompanied by a newspaper man, went to the union station yesterday afternoon and got the luggage out. The checks were dated June 7, which is about the last day Mr. Hooker has been seen in the city. No letters of communications to anyone except personal communications to Mr. Hooker were disclosed by the opening of the suit case and the package, which contained heavy clothing.
When the coat was found by one of Mr. Hooker’s friends near the bank of the river, they also found a small sack containing four rolls which were still soft, like they had been left there that morning. It may be that Mr. Hooker is visiting with his brother, Matt Hooker, near Edwards, but telephone communications with him last night were futile, as there is no exchange maintained there after a certain hour in the evening.
Mr. Hooker is the son of the late Col. Charles Edward Hooker, who represented his district in Congress for 20 years, and known and often referred to in this day, as the silver tongued orator of the South. Mr. Hooker is himself an educated man, having been engaged in the time been worried over physical and financial conditions, according to his friends, and it is feared that he might have done himself some bodily harm, or worse.
The friends of Charles E. Hooker, a well known figure on the streets of this city, are very much distressed about him and fear for his safety, since finding his coat near the banks of Pearl River Saturday morning. The coat was found about a half mile north of the state fairgrounds under a big tree which was about 100 yards from the river.
Mr. Hooker has been missing, and no one seems to know of his whereabouts, since about the middle of last week. His coat contained some letters by which it was identified, a collar, a pair of socks and a necktie. In one of the letters, two news-stand checks were found, and Assistant Chief of Police Ross, accompanied by a newspaper man, went to the union station yesterday afternoon and got the luggage out. The checks were dated June 7, which is about the last day Mr. Hooker has been seen in the city. No letters of communications to anyone except personal communications to Mr. Hooker were disclosed by the opening of the suit case and the package, which contained heavy clothing.
When the coat was found by one of Mr. Hooker’s friends near the bank of the river, they also found a small sack containing four rolls which were still soft, like they had been left there that morning. It may be that Mr. Hooker is visiting with his brother, Matt Hooker, near Edwards, but telephone communications with him last night were futile, as there is no exchange maintained there after a certain hour in the evening.
Mr. Hooker is the son of the late Col. Charles Edward Hooker, who represented his district in Congress for 20 years, and known and often referred to in this day, as the silver tongued orator of the South. Mr. Hooker is himself an educated man, having been engaged in the time been worried over physical and financial conditions, according to his friends, and it is feared that he might have done himself some bodily harm, or worse.
From the Clarion-Ledger, Jackson, Miss., June 12, 1923, p. 1:
The friends of Charles E. Hooker, a well known figure on the streets of this city, are very much distressed about him and fear for his safety, since finding his coat near the banks of Pearl River Saturday morning. The coat was found about a half mile north of the state fairgrounds under a big tree which was about 100 yards from the river.
Mr. Hooker has been missing, and no one seems to know of his whereabouts, since about the middle of last week. His coat contained some letters by which it was identified, a collar, a pair of socks and a necktie. In one of the letters, two news-stand checks were found, and Assistant Chief of Police Ross, accompanied by a newspaper man, went to the union station yesterday afternoon and got the luggage out. The checks were dated June 7, which is about the last day Mr. Hooker has been seen in the city. No letters of communications to anyone except personal communications to Mr. Hooker were disclosed by the opening of the suit case and the package, which contained heavy clothing.
When the coat was found by one of Mr. Hooker’s friends near the bank of the river, they also found a small sack containing four rolls which were still soft, like they had been left there that morning. It may be that Mr. Hooker is visiting with his brother, Matt Hooker, near Edwards, but telephone communications with him last night were futile, as there is no exchange maintained there after a certain hour in the evening.
Mr. Hooker is the son of the late Col. Charles Edward Hooker, who represented his district in Congress for 20 years, and known and often referred to in this day, as the silver tongued orator of the South. Mr. Hooker is himself an educated man, having been engaged in the time been worried over physical and financial conditions, according to his friends, and it is feared that he might have done himself some bodily harm, or worse.
The friends of Charles E. Hooker, a well known figure on the streets of this city, are very much distressed about him and fear for his safety, since finding his coat near the banks of Pearl River Saturday morning. The coat was found about a half mile north of the state fairgrounds under a big tree which was about 100 yards from the river.
Mr. Hooker has been missing, and no one seems to know of his whereabouts, since about the middle of last week. His coat contained some letters by which it was identified, a collar, a pair of socks and a necktie. In one of the letters, two news-stand checks were found, and Assistant Chief of Police Ross, accompanied by a newspaper man, went to the union station yesterday afternoon and got the luggage out. The checks were dated June 7, which is about the last day Mr. Hooker has been seen in the city. No letters of communications to anyone except personal communications to Mr. Hooker were disclosed by the opening of the suit case and the package, which contained heavy clothing.
When the coat was found by one of Mr. Hooker’s friends near the bank of the river, they also found a small sack containing four rolls which were still soft, like they had been left there that morning. It may be that Mr. Hooker is visiting with his brother, Matt Hooker, near Edwards, but telephone communications with him last night were futile, as there is no exchange maintained there after a certain hour in the evening.
Mr. Hooker is the son of the late Col. Charles Edward Hooker, who represented his district in Congress for 20 years, and known and often referred to in this day, as the silver tongued orator of the South. Mr. Hooker is himself an educated man, having been engaged in the time been worried over physical and financial conditions, according to his friends, and it is feared that he might have done himself some bodily harm, or worse.
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