BLACKMAILING GANG
AM AMERICAN SENSATION.
V WEALTHY SOCIETY MEN AS «fv VICTIMS.
(Per Press Association.— Copyright.;
(Received September 21, 11.20 a.m.) WASHINGTON, September 20. The heads of the Department of Justice bureaux at Chicago, New York, and Philadelphia met at Washington to-day to try and arrange for the secrecy of the testimony of many wealthy society men concerning the operations of the most daring band of blackmailers in America's history. The Department of Justice has evidence showing that the gang, operating with beautiful women, fleeced their victims of over 1,000,000 dollars by threatening " proceedings under the "White Slave law, which provides severe penalties for men accompanying women on interstate journeys. The Department of Justice cannot up the gang without the testi'^/ony of the victims, who protest that V.:.«f. would ruin their reputations if they testified, arid efforts are boing made* to discover legal means of proceeding in /camera.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AG19160921.2.24
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3560, 21 September 1916, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
148BLACKMAILING GANG Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3560, 21 September 1916, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Ashburton Guardian Ltd is the copyright owner for the Ashburton Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Ashburton Guardian Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in