The Corsicana Daily Sun
Friday,
October 3, 1941
pg. 14
BODY OF
DENISON MAN FOUND ON HIGHWAY; BELIEVED WAS
SLAIN
Durant,
Oklahoma, October 3 - (AP) - The body of
William E. Hawkins, 43, of
Denison, Texas, was found on U.S. Highway
69, a quarter mile north of
the Red River today and officers said he had
been robbed and slain.
Hawkins last
was seen at 9 p.m. yesterday in a Denison
cafe with 2 men whose identity had not been
established.
Officers here
believed he had been killed in Texas and his
body dumped on this side of the river.
His neck was
broken.
His
body was found north of the Red River bridge
between Denison and Durant
on October 3, 1941, less than six weeks
after his wife filed for
divorce. His neck had been broken.
The
1930 Census lists him and his family in
Tillman County, OK. They moved
to Denison sometime in the early 1930s, in
time to be included in the
1934 City Directory. They aren't listed in
1938, but they are shown in
1940 at 808 W. Nelson Street. He's listed as
a laborer; his wife and
17-year-old daughter were both maids at the
Hotel Denison. In the 1940
Census he was working as a stonemason on a
WPA road project. When he
was killed the following year, The
Denison Press said he was a WPA time
checker
