RR Detective Searches Home, Declines to Charge Walter Hunt with Theft of 3 Cups, 3 Saucers, Aug. 2, 1926

3 Cups and 3 Saucers All the Booty Found. . . A.C.L. Officials Will Not Prosecute Walter Hunt, Indian, Because of Small Value Placed on Goods Found in His Possession—Other Things at Home of One of Alleged Wives

A.C.L. Detective Meggs of Richmond, Va., assisted by county officials, searched the premises of Walter Hunt, Indian, of Saddletree township Saturday morning for thing alleged to have been stolen by Hunt while he was cook on an A.C.L. Pullman out of Richmond, the search ending in the recovery of three cups and three saucers belonging to the A.C.L. railway. Because of the small value placed on the goods found and the red tape necessary to get Hunt back into Virginia for trial, officials dropped charges against the Indian. A few things belonging to the railroad were also found in the home of one of Hunt’s alleged wives, a colored woman living in Richmond, Va., a few days ago, but the value of all the things recovered was not enough to charge Hunt with felony.

Hunt was bound over in recorder’s court a few weeks ago on a charge of bigamy, two wives—a colored woman from Richmond and an Indian woman of Robeson county—both testifying against him. When the case came up in Superior court, the Richmond wife was taken suddenly ill and left for her home. Hunt was therefore released because of a lack of evidence.

From the front page of The Robesonian, Lumberton, N.C., Monday, Aug. 2, 1926

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