(appeared in paper 12/28/1933)  HEAD STRUCK POSTS ON
INTERCITY VIADUCT AS HE LEANED FROM CAR, SAYS THE KANSAS CITY PAPERS
BERNARD HENNESEY AND KELLIS WRIGHT, OTHER OCCUPANTS OF THE CAR, HELD FOR
QUESTIONING
   Tuscumbia relatives and friends were shocked and deeply grieved to
hear Saturday morning that John Hawken, son of Mr. and Mrs.  S. P.
Hawken of near Tuscumbia, met death in  a tragic manner Saturday night
while he and Bernard Hennessey,  19, and Kellis Wright, 25, were driving
westward from Kansas City Mo., to Kansas City, Kansas, over the
intercity viaduct.
  According to reports in the Kansas City Papers, his head struck
several posts on the viaduct as he leaned from the rear window of the
car.  Hennessey told Capt. Stanley Beatty of the Kansas City, Kansas
police department that it was several minutes after the  accident before
he and Wright knew that their comrade had been injured.  They said they
discovered it when they noticed Hawken's head and shoulders protruding
from the open window. Capt. Beatty found blood on several posts on the
viaduct.
    Young Hawken was employed at the Kansas City Packing and Fibre Box
Company, where his uncle, W C Hawken, also worked.  He was boarding at
the home of Jas. Anson, who married a cousin of Hawken.
    Mr. and Mrs. Hawken, parents of the victim, received word of his
death at 3 am Saturday and Mr. Hawken departed as quickly as possible
for the city, and arrangements were made to bring the  body to Tuscumbia
for burial.
   John was born near Tuscumbia April 5, 1909, and was therefore 24
years, 8 months, and 17 days old.  He was an honest and  industrious
young man, an employee in whom one could put the utmost dependence, and
it is regretted that so stalwart a young man, just in the prime of life,
should meet with so untimely a death. The host of relatives and friends
here and elsewhere deeply  sympathize with the parents, his brothers and
sisters.
    Besides his parents, he leaves to mourn his death five sisters and
three brothers.---Mrs. Truman Vernon of Eldon,  Mrs. Forrest  Lewis of
Pawhuska, Oklahoma, Mrs. Malachi Wyrick of Tuscumbia, Perry of Jefferson
City, Miss Myrtle, Miss Francie, Wayne and Jesse at home.
   Funeral Services were conducted at the Tuscumbia Christian church by
Rev S A Crouch, pastor, with a choir of eight young men with T C Wright
in Charge.  These services were held at  10;30 am Christmas Day, and the
building was packed to overflowing.  The Eldon Funeral Home had charge
of the burial arrangements.
     The body was laid to rest in the Tuscumbia Cemetery.  Pall bearers
were six of his intimate friends---H. L Wright, Lloyd Stone, Homer Clay
Wright, Tollivar Lawson, Otto Richardson and Emmett Crane.