thomas alexander hartley jr
Rocky Mount, Sept. 5.-Thomas
Alexander Hartley, Jr., 31, circula- tion manager of The Evening
Telegram, was found at his home last night dead of a bullet wound.
Coroner J. G. Raby said it was a "clear case of suicide."
Funeral services will be conducted in Winston-Salem, his native. city, but arrangements had not been completed today.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Ruth Smitherman Hartley, also for- merly of Winston-Salem, and two children, Jeanne, 9, and Tommy, 7.
A mood of despondency was con- sidered to have caused the tragedy. A note found near the body stated no reason for the suicide but in general corroborated the report that Hartley had been despondent during the week-end.
Mrs. Hartley and the children learned of his death when they re- turned to the house, 733 Tarboro Street, about 8 o'clock last night after a walk downtown. Hartley was found in the bedroom with a wound from a 22 calibre pistol through the left temple. A physician said he had been dead about an hour.
Hartley had come to Rocky Mount as circulation manager of The Eve- ning Telegram in December, 1936, moving here with his family from Winston-Salem. He had been associated with a Winston-Salem newspaper, and earlier had worked for a time in the circulation depart- ments of newspapers in Washing- ton, D. C., and Rochester, N. Y.
He was a son of Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Hartley, Sr., of Winston-Salem. Among surviving relatives are a brother, Richard C. V. Hartley of New York City, and two sisters, Mrs. C. O. P. Trexler and Mrs. A. A. Sawyer, both of Salisbury.
Funeral services will be conducted in Winston-Salem, his native. city, but arrangements had not been completed today.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Ruth Smitherman Hartley, also for- merly of Winston-Salem, and two children, Jeanne, 9, and Tommy, 7.
A mood of despondency was con- sidered to have caused the tragedy. A note found near the body stated no reason for the suicide but in general corroborated the report that Hartley had been despondent during the week-end.
Mrs. Hartley and the children learned of his death when they re- turned to the house, 733 Tarboro Street, about 8 o'clock last night after a walk downtown. Hartley was found in the bedroom with a wound from a 22 calibre pistol through the left temple. A physician said he had been dead about an hour.
Hartley had come to Rocky Mount as circulation manager of The Eve- ning Telegram in December, 1936, moving here with his family from Winston-Salem. He had been associated with a Winston-Salem newspaper, and earlier had worked for a time in the circulation depart- ments of newspapers in Washing- ton, D. C., and Rochester, N. Y.
He was a son of Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Hartley, Sr., of Winston-Salem. Among surviving relatives are a brother, Richard C. V. Hartley of New York City, and two sisters, Mrs. C. O. P. Trexler and Mrs. A. A. Sawyer, both of Salisbury.