Grady-Thomas County GaArchives Obituaries.....Newton, Charles E. June 1, 1920
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The Cairo Messenger, Friday, June 4, 1920
The body of Mr. Charles E. Newton, young cattle buyer and successful business 
man of Thomasville, was found near his butcher pen about a mile from the city 
limits on the Coast Line railroad near the place of W. A. Rehberg, by a party 
of searchers on Tuesday afternoon.   He had been missing since noon Monday and 
when a party of searchers had been looking for some time, Mr. A. C. Walden, his 
close personal friend, a partner in business, and manager of the Oak City 
Market here, found the body lying near an oak tree, with a bullet hole in his 
forehead and his rifle with one empty cartridge in the chamber lying at his 
side.  In his pockets were papers which furnished evidence that led the 
coroner's jury to declare the act suicide, although his reasons for his act 
have proved a mystery to the police.  Among the papers found in his clothing 
was a statement bidding farewell to his young widow, stating that he had made a 
mistake in his life and that he expected to return after he had made amends 
for "his rotten spots."

He also left a detailed statement of his financial condition in a memorandum 
book.  No evidence has been found to corroborate his statement that he had been 
a failure in life.  He had been married a short time and his home life was said 
to have been very happy.  The statement also included several words to his 
business partners stating "do the best you can with the business, and give my 
little wife a square deal."  "Tell Grover the same."  "Don't let it worry you, 
Dick, because it is my own trouble."  "So hoping you all well." number of 
sorrowing relatives and friends attended the last sad rites. Besides a father 
and mother, two brothers survive. The Messenger extends condolence to the 
bereaved ones. 

Mr. Newton was successful in business and was interested in a market in 
Thomasville as well as the Oak City Market here.

His friends throughout the city were shocked at the unexpected death and cannot 
account for it except that he was temporarily deranged by reason of the 
perplexities of his business transactions


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