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...suicide arrived soon after from Harold W. Saxton ’19, filled with code and jargon. Saxton referred to Cyril as “Salomé’s Child” and someone else as “Dot.” He refers to Roberts?? “campaign,” raids against clubs, “tricks” and a “souse” party, apparently in reference to a party with alcohol that would have been in illegal in 1920, the first year of Prohibition...
...only actual Harvard student named was Roberts??and he was the one person no one would accuse without great confidence in the charges. Ernest Weeks Roberts was the son of Rep. Ernest William Roberts, a man who had represented Massachusetts in Congress for eight years and was still an important political figure in Washington and Boston. There would need to be strong proof to accuse a congressman’s son of being homosexual. The proof came on May 25, when George Wilcox wrote to Greenough and, more importantly, enclosed Roberts?? letter to Cyril...
George Wilcox also discovered that the “Ken” mentioned in Roberts?? letter was Cyril’s freshman roommate, Kenneth Day. Referring to all the evidence in the letter, he concluded: “It will be enough anyhow to put Putnam [Roberts] out of business if you choose...
...order to proceed methodically, The Court asked Roberts?? proctor in Perkins Hall, code-named “S27,” to compile a list of all the students seen in Roberts?? room, or in the company of the men connected with that room. On May 26, the proctor wrote Greenough that Day and Edward A. Say were “often” found in that room. He also mentioned that Cummings and two other students were somehow involved, although two days later he asked to have the other two students removed from investigation...
...brake [sic] away from it concluded suicide the only course open to him,” the anonymous letter read. “The leader of these students guilty of this deplorable practice and the one directly responsible for Cyril Wilcox’s suicide is Roberts, 2C. Roberts?? rooms at Perkins 28 where he and more of his type have, during the past college year, conducted ‘parties’ that beggar description and how in the World such parties ‘got by’ the Proctor is quite beyond me. At these...