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Show loin INVOLVED in the inon SENSATION Higgiabotham was brought before Judge Co-n this afternoon, pleaded not ! guilty, and H'a bonds were fixed at $3000 He will be before the court again on December 2. Fostofflce Inspector L. A. McGee arrived from Salt Lake thl afternoon and filed with I nited States Commis ! sloner S. T. Corn a complaJnt charging charg-ing los E Hlgglnbolham with using the I nited States mails to defraud, 'alleging that a letter demanding j money of Harold J, Peery, written by : him, had been sent through the malls. Mr. Higglnbotham s relatives have employed Judge H. H. Henderson to defend him and it is said by his ' brother Frank Hlgginbotham. that 1-onds will be furnished in whatever sum mav be required That another case charging Joseph Hlggtnbothsm with using the mails j for the transmission of letters con I tainlnp obscene w.rds will be filed shortly Is forecast by Inspector Mc I Gee. Because Hlgginbotham expressed a ! wish to ro to Salt lake to fill a date j with a certain woman yesterday. In spector McGee, Deputy Sheriff J I. Hobson and city detective Charles Pino ck went to Sail Lake to make further ln estigations regarding the blackmail letter to Mr. Peery. The officers were of the opinion that the relations with the woman would form a connecting lluk with the Peery blackmail scheme, but they were sur-I sur-I rlsed to learn that the letters to Mrs L A. Stunhueser were entirely of a different nature. 'I he letters were dated September 26 and October 20 of this ear The warn the woman thai If she does not raise funds for the writer she will l.r. exposed to ridicule and her bus band will be told of t'liiiRR that ha happened in the past, which will prove embarrassing to her. The amount to be exacted was not stated In the letters but It is the opinion of the ofTlcers that the object of Hipginboth-Sm Hipginboth-Sm s sought for Visit to Salt like was to make definite terms regarding mon ey. Today, after the officers told Hlgginbotham Hlg-ginbotham that they had seen the letters written to Mrs. Stunhueser. and that the knew he was the author of them, the man confessed. Mrs Stunhueser was a former resident resi-dent of Ogden, living as neighbors to the Hlgginbcthams, and when her bus band was apprised of the fact that rligginbotbani had written such let ters to his wife, he expressed greal surprise. The officers have other matters In hand that when thoroughly Investigated, Investiga-ted, they say will further Involve Hlgginbotham Hlg-ginbotham m the meshes of the law. Mr Hlgginbotham will be arraigned before Commissioner S T. Corn this afternoon, his bond fixed, and a time 6et for the preliminary hearing. |