This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: YOUNG, BENSON Classification: Death Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/nYB.2ACE/888 Message Board Post: >From the Holdenville Democrat 1-20-1927 Pg. 1 6 Year Search For Man Ends At His Grave A six year search for P. W. YOUNG, wanted here to answer to a charge of disposing of mortgaged property, ended last week at a grave in the De Queen, Arkansas cemetery. YOUNG was living on a farm near Holdenville in 1920. He suddenly disappeared, after disposing of certain property against which the Farmers National Bank of this city held a mortgage. G. L. BENSON, president of the bank, immediately launched a search. He kept on the absconding mortgagor’s “trail” and traced him through more than a dozen states. Occasionally the trail would fade away, but the persistent banker never failed to recover it. He finally located YOUNG’s family in De Queen, Arkansas but YOUNG could not be brought to an accounting. He was dead and buried in De Queen Cemetery. “Such searches sometimes lead us to the hunted man’s grave, but we never give them up as long as the wayfarer lives,” said the banker. A few years ago Mr. BENSON made a trip to a neighboring state for the sole purpose of viewing the remains of a suicide who was being brought back to Holdenville to answer the charge of disposing of property mortgaged to the bank. The man jumped out the window of the train on which he was being returned to Hughes county and before officers could recapture him he had committed suicide by hanging himself to a tree. “I wanted to be sure that the dead man was the “right man”, the banker declared. Incidentally, he brought back the piece of barbed wire used in the suicide and had it on “display” in his office for sometime.