What Happened to Charlie's Pocket Contents

[Brian]

02/19/07 at 01:34 PM
iluvnumber3
Few questions........

Do any of you know where the actual contents went that were found in his pockets? Did they stay in police files (Stokes Co.), or did Arthur receive the pocket contents (newspaper ad, notes, pencil, etc...)? Does anyone know where the store ad was from that was in his pocket? A local store, or in Winston Salem perhaps?? I know that does not really matter now, but then the authorities could have asked the store associates if Charlie had been in their store. (And also who the "crib" or whatever furniture was for.)
iluvnumber3

sissy
02/19/07 at 01:46 PM
sissy
In my opinion the new baby furniture, was for Marie. They already had a baby in the crib they had. If Marie was pregnant they would have to put the new baby somewhere.
sissy

02/19/07 at 03:41 PM
Lou
It was a cradle the baby was in and she would have been growing too fast to have stayed there much longer. Perhaps he was looking to buy a baby bed for his own baby as she would have been outgrowing the cradle but much too little to put into a regular bed. Just a thought.
Lou

02/19/07 at 04:10 PM
iluvnumber3
Quota:
Originally Posted by Lou
It was a cradle the baby was in and she would have been growing too fast to have stayed there much longer. Perhaps he was looking to buy a baby bed for his own baby as she would have been outgrowing the cradle but much too little to out into a regular bed. Just a thought.

I am confused. In the pictures of the crime scenes, there is a crib/baby bed present. It is not a cradle. I have no children, but I know a cradle is usually small and rocks. Am I wrong?
iluvnumber3

02/19/07 at 04:20 PM
Lou
It looks much like a cradle to me and one like I have. Mine can either rock or not. It has gone through three grand babies and you can only use it for a few months.
Lou

[Angela]

We never found out what happened to the contents in his pockets. I'm sure the cash was taken and spent, probably by Marion Lawson. It should have gone to Arthur and perhaps it did. I hope so. I wish I knew what happened to the suicide notes which were written on the back of the tobacco receipts he had gotten from the latest sale of his tobacco crop. The thing in the picture looks more like a baby bed to me than a cradle. Every baby cradle I've ever seen is lower than a baby BED.

[Brian]

It's my thought that Charlie wasn't planning to buy anything with the money in his pocket.

When they went to Winston-Salem to buy new clothes and get a portrait taken Charlie would have needed cash. I suspect Charlie withdrew some amount of money from the bank in preparation for the trip. He probably didn't know exactly how much he would need. I think the $63 found in Charlie's pocket was the amount he had left over after the trip. He either didn't have a chance to take it back to the bank to redeposit it or, he had no need/desire to redeposit it because he knew he would not be needing money where he was going.

[Angela]

There was a "chest'" listed in the auction report that said a total of $63.00 was found, some of it in that chest and some of it in his coat pocket. I think alot of important things are in that chest wherever that chest is. It's with one of Marion Lawson's great grand-daughters but we cannot locate her. She remarried and no one knows her husband's name or where they moved to after having had a falling out with one of Marion's grandsons Michael.

[angel71242]

Man! Wouldn't that be incredible to find that thing!!!!!!