Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1922-07-19
ZIMMERMAN IS FOUND GUILTY..
Recommended to Mercy Of tho Court.
Self-Defensc Was His Plea.

Albert Zimmerman at 9.05 o'clock
tonight, Zimmerman being charged
with the murder Of Pink Huggins.
Sentence was not passed, pending tho
hearing of a motion for new trial.
Taking the witness stand in his
own behalf this morning, thinner.
man admitted killing j. Pink Hug
gins on the Charlotte road on Nov.
z, 1921. He Gained self-defense,
alleging that he shot Huggins after
the latter had grasped him by the
throat and thrown him down. He
was drunk when he shot Huggins, he
said, and he remembered shooting
only one time, though he might have
shot more than once.
Leading up to his story of the
shooting Zimmerman said that he
was a native Of Clifton, Spartanburg
county, and Is now 25 years Of age.
With his parents lie came to this Sec
tion of the State in 1914. The family
first lived near Blacksburg, and later
at the Cannon Mill in Yorkville AZ
terward they tried farming, living on
the Jones G. Allison farms, near
Yorkville. He got acquainted with
Huggins and Mrs. Huggins at the
Cannon Mill in 1919. Later Huggins
moved to farm near the farm on
which he was living with his parents,
he said. About that time Huggins
told him, 81 know ono who loves you
better than anybody else, and III
tell you later. Then Higgins iu-
vited him to the Higgins home,
where he was given wine. He was
invited to 60 to the York fair at Rock
Hill in 1919 with Mr.. and Mrs, Hug
gins, and went. He was left alone
with Mrs. Huggins for the first time
then, but there were no unlawful re-
'lations between them, he declared.
He was invited to the Huggins
home by Huggins the following week
to help him load cotton. He went.
Huggins went to town with the cot
ton and told him to play with Nlrs.
Huggins and the children, ne testi-
fled. 1t was on this occasion that he
entered upon his life Of immortality
with the wife of the man he killed.
He testified that he gave her ten dol
lars. He then entered upon a sort Of
rowing life with the Huggins family,
living at Lancaster, Rock Hill, Shell
Gy. Walhalla and Marion.
Part Of the time he boarded with
the Higgins family, his unlawful re-
lations with Mrs. Huggins continu-
ing, he said, with the full knowledge
OF her husband. Later Huggins came
to him with a proposition to take
Mrs. Huggins and the children and
have them for his own. Huggins Of
fered to contribute to the support Of
the children, he asserted.
He said he told Huggins that he
was not sure that he could do this,
since his mother and father, living
IN Rock Hill, were depending upon
him for support. He visited the Hug
gins family at their home on Char
lotte road on Thursday prior to the
night Of the killing, he said
He spent the night there, leaving
Friday morning for Rock Hill. He
remained with his parents until Sun
day afternoon, when he started back
to Shelby. Huggins had asked him
to stop at their home in Yorkville on
the return to Shelby. He did not go
into the house and did not see Mrs.
Ruggins. He stopped at the store,
where he found Pink Huggins and
his son, Arthur. He helped them put
up the chickens. Then he went back
into the store, while Huggins went
into the house after ginger, he testi-
fled, and they drank two or three
bottles. They got pretty drunk. Hug
gins suggested walk down the road.
After they had been in the store per-
haps an hour they walked. Huggins
wanted to know If he was going to
take Mrs. Huggins and the children
away, as he wanted him to do, he
testified. His reply was that he had
not decided, since he had to support
his parents. Huggins exclaimed, ooh
yes, you - --, you WILL" and
grabbed him by the throat, thinner
man declared. There was struggle.
Finally he got his hand on his auto
matte and fired, he said, and drop
ped his pistol in the scume. Then