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Show jHIOGINBOTHAM RELEASED FROM J JAIL DN BROTHER'S POND Of $3,000 - : If ' - I J .' ': " " J m 'jmt (i ii i Mm W mM Joseph E. Higginbotharn, Accused of Blackmailing. I 1 I Today Joseph E Hlgeinbotham fur-i fur-i nished a bond for his release in the ! sum of 8000 and wae diecharged from the county jail His uond-men are I Frank Hlgginbotham, a brother, and I J. E Cave As soon as he was released h I ! driven to his home in an automrii'r-Mrs. automrii'r-Mrs. Margaret Stienheuser of Salt Iake, who received blackmail letters ' from Joseph E. Hicglnbotham of Og : den, when interviewed yesterday, made the followln? statement: "My husband and I were completely surprised Sunday when detectives from Ojjden came to our homo and , asked to see the letters. Although I can see very plainly upon what they founded their suspicions that the let- : ters were written by Mr. Higgln- hotham. It Is a blow to my hushand , and me, because we were alwa s Boob j close friends of theirs, having lived next door to them for the last three or four years In Ogden. and, since moving to Salt Lake, having entertained enter-tained them at our apartments when they visited here. "One of the letters came to me last summer and another about a month and a half ag- Neither was signed and hoth were blasphemous and obscene ob-scene In fact. thy attacked my J character The only threat made was In the last one, in which the writer 6aid: 'If ou don't behave yourself you will hear more from me.' "When the letters came, both my husband and mself were ery angry and discussod turning them over to the postofflce authorities. However, Mr Stlenheuser decided that the letters let-ters were perhaps written by some disgruntled employee whom he had discharged from hie restaurant, and the matter vedecided tr. eav noth-! 1 Ing about In fact, we disliked to 6how the letters, so shocking was the language used. "Now that the officers h&t suggested sug-gested that Mr. Hlgginbotham w rote the letters, an in-Mdent of which I I thought nothing at the tirvj, seems important. Mr. Hlgginbotham called I me on the phone from Ogden last i Saturday and told me that h- wanted to see me on important business. He was to hae come down Sunday. I 'He didn't come, as t.h- police were probably watching blm too riosel' However, it is ray theory that he planned to confess that he wrote the letters and then get them to destroy them "The Higginbothams visited us In I Salt Lake only about a week or more jaco We had always considered them personal friends." The let 'era to Mrs. Stlenheuser " ere mailed in Salt Lake and received by her on September 25 and October 26. respectively. on |