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Alexandria Gazette
Alexandria, Alexandria County, District Of Columbia
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Sixteen-year-old Clay Higgins, a mail carrier in Grayson County, Virginia, was convicted in the United States Court at Abingdon, Virginia, of robbing the mail of about $300 and sentenced to four years in the Maryland House of Refuge. He was transported to Baltimore by Deputy Marshal John D. Dailey and clerk Jas. R. Witten.
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Deputy United States Marshal John D. Dailey and Jas. R. Witten, clerk to the marshal of the Western district of Virginia, arrived in Baltimore yesterday afternoon, having in custody Clay Higgins, a lad sixteen years old, six feet in height, and poorly clad. The lad was convicted on Saturday last in the United States Court at Abingdon, Va., before Judge John A. Paul of robbing the mail of about three hundred dollars. He was sentenced to the Maryland House of Refuge for four years. The robbery occurred in Grayson county, Va., where the lad was employed as mail-carrier.
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Grayson County, Va.
Event Date
Saturday Last
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sentenced to the maryland house of refuge for four years.
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Clay Higgins, a sixteen-year-old mail carrier, robbed the mail of about three hundred dollars in Grayson county, Va. He was convicted on Saturday last in the United States Court at Abingdon, Va., before Judge John A. Paul and sentenced to the Maryland House of Refuge for four years. Deputy United States Marshal John D. Dailey and Jas. R. Witten transported him to Baltimore.