The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-27
HUGGINS IN JAIL
FORMER POSTAL CLERK CHAE.GED
 WITH ROBBERY.
Little Negro Arrested sunday Night For Entering Post0fFiee Boxes in
 Selma, duplicates he ex-
 GOvernment EmpI0ye.
Advertiser Bureau.


 ". N. Huggins, a negro, formerly the night mailing clerk at the Selma postoffice, was arrested at a late hour last night and carried to the Dallas county jail.
 The arrest of Huggins was made as the result of sworn statement which was made Sunday night before Uni tetd States Commissioner I, D. Lioyd by the little negro boy Emile Blew ins. who was arrested Sunday after noon for robbing lock boxes of mail matter at the postoface.
 In Commissioner Lioyd's office Sum day night several attemrts were made to induce the little negro to give away the name of the instigator of the rob berries. Finally Blevins said that he would tell the whole story and stated that Sunday night about dark he met Huggins at the side gate of the resi- dence of W. S. Monk at the corner of Broad and Second streets.
 He said that he was going to his work at the Hotel Albert. where he was employed as a bell boy, when, iA passing Mir. Monks residence he was accosted by Huggins. Huggins gave him the bunch of keys and told him to go to the postofice and with them uu- lock two boxes and take the mail out and to bring it to him at the corner about o'clock after he had finished his work. The number of the two boxes which the hoy said Huggins had told him to get the mail from were those rented by N. Waller and Compa- ny and L. and F. Lamer.
 After this confession by Blevins, Commissioner Lloyd and his deputy started out in search of Huggins. They looked around the city for couple of hours and then started for the union passenger station on Broad street Al. 4a r. drug store and as they assed this place Huggins was sven, The deputy went in and placed him under arrest and carried him to the county jail.
 Tn talking to the officer of his ar- rest. Huggips said that the confession of the little negro was a lie. He ayers he had nothing to do with lhe robbing of the boxes. He had worked in the postofice and that he knew better than any one could tell him that if he did rob any of the boxes of their contents that he would be arrested. He said that even if he had and from some of the letters had taken checks that they would be worthless to him for if, he presented them to be cashed that he would be arrested.
 For a long while Huggins was the night clerk at the postoffice but about the middle of October he was sus- pended In the cellar of 1he postoihce there was found quantity of mall matter and the hiding, Of this mail was traced to him and he as sus- pended for delaying the mail,
 After he had been susD ended Hug gins wrote a long letter lo the post master general telling his side of tho case and impresslng upon that official that he had been suspended on accouhs of race prejudice. An order was issued from the office of the postmaster gem eral reinstating him and he was put back to work.
 He had been back to work only a few days when the grand Jury of the United States Court which was then Tn session here began to investigate the matter The grand jury returned sew eral indictments agalnss Husgins ana he was arrested and rlaced n the Da'~ las county jail, where he remained for about twenty-four hours before he was able to make bond. After getting out of iail he secured employment as a waiter in the dining room at the Ar cadia Hotel. He had only left thaf hotel a few hours last night before 10 was arrested upon the sworn state- ment of the Blevins boy.
 The case against the two negroes will be heard before United States Commissioner Lloyd Friday morning at 10 o'clock.