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a wT Pi? cP a Fughea for the package, Cs clea 8 : * peceipt 2 for ‘this package, eigning “D. 2D. Roughton by W. A. Hughes"; -- ‘. - ‘Doster to agent Fagan of the Charlotte office: Lye So age TS. a5 yore... rh rr rr a "Height N tater Give feet, gen: inches. ta a Pt We i eee) Pounde - & a or Ta a ae 2 Bu ta. Pela io elender **) SR Bee a Racers J blue; right oye protrudes quite” el TT pos Me on _Rosioeably \: “Sor “Rationality Aner iean : a ; ‘ a — .* The following | investigation Bas Sondue ted OF ee agent, it. L Fegan, Charlotte, North Carolinas tee “F . Ps pitas, 1, fe Bia Fy tt ” agent’ Pagan ‘interviewed Re 2. Doster, Stetina agent, atbeone* ue North “Sarotine, who advised that’ one. &.: Ae Hughes,” ‘Yepresenging hime - “y a self t6 be a Special Agent of the Railway Express Compeny, Inés ,-et . Poe 8:05 A, M., on February 15, 1934, got off the south-bound Seaboard * me train at Gibson, and went into the railway exprese office and demanded a package, stating that the package Wes sent to D. D. Roughton; that - this package bore the word "pistol", was @ pine-wood box, two feet long, five inches wide and three inches thick; that Hughes steted his verri- tory as a Special agent is South Carolina, end thet he is ghecking up on guns being shipped in that territory; .that Bughee paid thie en waa: "used in Cy $250, 000, 00, robbery out Woate ae ve Da tn os _ ; ss Doster ‘purther advised Agent Fagen thet Hughes signed a. ' that the package was sent from Richmond, Va., by Frenk Roughton,° on Jenuery 18, 1954; that a charge of. thirty-seven | sents wes paid By . Fe Mr. Doster said that Hughes presented some credentials that ‘looked "phoney" te him; ..that these eredentials stated_ Mat Hughes | a is a “Special Agent of the Reilway Express, Company." oe 7 : PS Doster said that be: ‘became suspicious, end ‘etter Hugh». had left and gone on in the south-bomd train, he (Doster) called the station at McColl, South Carolina, and bed the train conductor check up on Hughes; that the condustor notified him ¢ that Rughes was travel ling on a Seaboard Air Line ennual pasa. ae The following description of Hughes's was "given by Station Agent Agent Fagan telked to Chief of Police Williass, who advised that he had heard nothing about the above until Mr. Fagen brought it to his attention, The following investigation was conducted by Special agent L. O. Carver of the Cherlotte office. —_ 2