Fellow Scientist Says Dr. Hubley
Took Own Life on Alaska Glacier
FAIRBANKS, UP)—The last hours
of Dr. Richard C. Hubley were
described to a coroner’s jury yes
terday by a fellow scientist who
said the 31-year-old glaciologist
was “one of the finest examples of
humanity I have ever met.”
The story of Dr. Hubley, scien
tist from Tacoma, Wash., and
Washington, D.C., who died on
8,000-foot Call Glacier in the
Brooks Range north of here the
night of Oct. 28-29, was told by
Robert Watts Mason Jr.
Mason told the jury he felt Dr.
Hubley was a suicide.
The 23-year-old assistant was
alone with Dr. Hubley for three
days before he died and with his
frozen body for a day afterwards
before others in the Arctic Insti
tute’s International Geophysical
Year research party returned to j
the isolated camp.
Mason said he woke up on the
ihoming of Oct. 29 “a little fright
ened or a little uncertain of what
was going on” because the diesel
generator, which ordinarily ran
24 hours a day, was silent.
Mason said his first reaction
was fear that Dr. Hubley “might
have killed himself.”
He said he started out in search
for Dr. Hubley, following tracks
in the fresh snow despite the dark
and cold until he found the scien
tists body 200 yars from the camp.
Dr. Hubley was stripped to the
waist and lying on his back with
his head up the slope of the gla
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cier, his hands folded on his chest,
Mason related.
Mason returned to the glacier
party’s hut and radioed Fairbanks
for help and sent out a call for
two other men in the party to
return from an observation point
lower on the glacier.
The men on the glacier came
back the day after Hubley’s death
but help from Fairbanks was de
layed three days by weather.
Mason said he had gone to bed
early the night before, extremely
exhausted from a long conversa
tion he had had with Dr. Hubley.
The expedition leader, Mason
said, had announced his intention
.to leave the project because of
what Mason said were “emotional
problems that had given him trou
ble for years.”
Dr. Hubley had been depressed,
disturbed and in a state of agita
tion, Mason related.
Hubley left a suicide note which
will be presented when the in
quest is resumed at a later date.
Mason’s testimpny was taken now.
to permit him to return to the
States.
Mason said “someone’ had
pulled the exhaust off the camp’s
diesel generator inside the small
generator shed, stuffed up the
muffler opening in the wall and
“stayed inside trying to suffocate
himself until the motor went off.”
Dr. Hubley’s shirt and woolen |
undershirt were found in the |
snow outside the shed. Tracks on j
the snow showed he had walked j
about 50 feet, had fallen • or col
lapsed, then dragged himself to
where the body was found.
“He left a very peculiar set of
tracks,” the assistant said, “as if
he had dragged himself not on
his stomach but on his back.”
The temperature was 15 above I
zero that night, Mason recalled.
During the ice ages four mil
lion square miles of1 the North
American continent were covered >
by ice.
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