BLACKMAIL BY MICROBES.
Becently many well-known Chicago ladies received anonymous letters the writer of which had devised a now form of blackmail. The letters read in part: —"By opening this letter, you have liberated about two million bacilli which I have cultivated. _ Without doubt you are iufccted.by this time. But do not become excited. My prophylactic will any number of germs of this disease in the body if used before the ninth day." The writer demanded £500 from Mrs Frederick Steele, a prominent philanthropist,, and £5000 from Mrs Julius Rosenwald Price for his remedy. Both ladies placed the lettors 'in/tho. hands of the police, who •submitted" them" to the chemists-em-ployed by the Post ' Oifiee. The chemists reported that the letters contained a pasty substance inhabited by colonies or germs which were apparently ■harmless. " '
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Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14839, 3 December 1913, Page 9
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133BLACKMAIL BY MICROBES. Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14839, 3 December 1913, Page 9
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