The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1915-08-06
MORRIS HUFFMAN
SAYS HE ROBBED
MUELLER MARKET
Tells Chief HutsOn He Didn't
Enter Browns and Deever's
In Haarig.
SAYS HE PLANNED TO
ROB OSTERLOH STORE
Chief Looking For Confederate
of "Reformatory Graduate"
Arrest Likely.

Morris Huffman, a Reformatory
graduate" and well known character
in Haarig, yesterday broke down and
made confession to Chief of Police
Jeff Hutson, telling in detail how he
robbed the Mueller Bros. Branch Meat
Market on Good Hope street in Haarig
early Tuesday morning.
"Hutty," a. he is popularity known
on the South Side, declared in his con-
fessiCn so far elected, that he con-
fined his operations to the meat shop
and declined to offer suggestion as
to how the Deever Bros. feed store,
next door, and the Braun Bros. Gro
Gerry, three doors removed down the
street were looted on the same night.
He admits to the police it looks
mighty peculiar" At the same time
he confessed that he had planned to
pull off two other "iobs" in the last
week
Huffman surrendered himself Tues
day evening to Chief Hutson asking
at that time what he was wanted for.
The chief held him pending investiga-
tion and began sweating" his prisoner
for an explanation of his presence near
the scene of the robbery about the time
it was supposed to have been commit
ted.
Huffman early yesterday afternoon
finally significd his desire to tell about
the robbery.
He said h., loafed about the meat
market late the night before about
closing time in order to get an idea of
the loot that might be obtained if the
"job" should be pulled off. He talked
about his Reformatory experiences
with the clerks in the meat market and
philosophical" on the treatment that
big and little Crooks" receive.
Sometime otter midnight, his story
was, he returned to the meat market,
clambered up to the transom, ripped
off the screen, and reaching inside,
pushed open the window. He declared
that he got from the cash register
only S27.
He was accompanied by confeder-
ate, he acknowledged to the police, but
it is said he has steadfastly refused to
tell hte name of the accomplice. The
police, however, still are looking for
a man whose identity they have been
advised of.
"Hutty" denied that he had opened
the door leading in Deever Bros. feed
store next door and attempted to loot
the money drawer and destroyed a
sack of flour.
Chief Hutson, last night declared he
had reason to believe that "Hutty'
was "mistakcn" about that statement
Huffman will be taken before Prose
cutting Attorney Caruthers this morn
ing when he will be questioned further
| in regard to his connection with the
other two Jobs.
, Huffman declared that he and nj:
; accon plice had made their plans to en-
: ter the Mueller Bros. Meat Market OF
: Broadway.
t He told the details of an attempt HI
made last Saturday night to rob th'
5 Osterloh Book Store on Main stree
1 near Broadway.
/ He said that he had climbed to th'
: roof in the rear part of the building
= and had succeeded in raising a sky
: light to effect an entrance. Huffman
s declared that he desisted from tn
= work because he was afraid that tn
= noise of his entering through the sky
o light would svund an alarm and frus
trate the "job"
The transorl had been raised and tn
sky-l:ght tampered with, according t
Miss Ostecloh.
o Huffman is only II years old. H
was sentenced to two years in the Re
formatory for burglary in Cape Cir
l, ardeau. He had been released fror
! that institution about or 4 month
e ago.
n When he gave himself up to the pc
n lice, search failed to disclose an
money upon him. He declared his az
e complice On the robbery "job" &c
l. away with tire swag.
e The police believe the other ma
! they are searching for still is in tow
a. and they expect to turn him up With