Could I ask a big favour of someone who has unrestricted access to the British Newspaper Archives to locate and send me an article?
There is reference to a John Hawes in the Page 3 Ipswich Journal of 10 February 1844 in regard to, I presume, an arrest. This article appears in the online search as (I searched for the name ' John Hawes' for 1844). The article has in the free search option the following:
.....named John Hawes, coming into Ipswich, from the direction of Westerfield. Knowing Hawes to be a suspicious character, ard observing that his pockets appeared unusually....
Thanks and Merry Xmas
Paul