This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Fitch, Chicro Classification: Death Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JW.2ADE/8029 Message Board Post: Suicide Cause Of Victim Found Hung The body of Charles Raymond Leileit, approximately 30 years old, was found by his mining partners hanging from a rafter in an old mine shack 7 ½ miles northwest of .Jawbone Canyon Cafe on Saturday, Jan 28. The exact date of his death is unknown but the deceased is thought to have been in the rugged area since Monday. He was a research engineer with an aircraft company and his usual residence was 3320 Iroquois. Long Beach. A veteran of World War II, he was single and born in Rock Island, Illinois. An inquest held at the O’Donnell Funeral Home where the body was taken, declared the death to be apparent suicide. He is survived by brothers Edward of Lawndale; William of Long Beach; and Donald, Benny, Samuel and Joseph all of Denver Colorado. Also surviving are two sisters, Amelia Fitch of Denver and Helen Chicro of Pueblo, Colo. The body was shipped to the Bengston Home Mortuary in Denver for funeral arrangements. Posted by East Kern Genealogical Society Courtesy of Mojave Desert News California City, Kern, CA Published: 02 Feb 1956