Women Who Levy Blackmail

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 90, 20 January 1891, Page 4

Women Who Levy Blackmail

'The'stories about the advantage taken ' o>f the c confpartment system in' English cars by female advent urers are snot greitly exaggerated. In London, in ?the .sulphurous and cavernous underground^ railroad, one day woile I was a j j. passenger tliere, an Engl shman told me <H>f two instances of attempted blackmail ' that were fresh in his mind In one he , a. conspicuous part ' Happen ng I -tto be' J left alone with a woman in a comTpartment, sfie raised an outcry when the I Strain slowed up at one of the stations I I Re asked heriwhat >'as the^matter, »nd she s.auMhat, unless he gave her a sum of , money she intended to have him arrested He defied ,her and she sci earned agun, -and continued her crie* until the train - stop"peli"ana~a~guar3 came ~to~tlie i door. To him my acquaintance ' told the' plain Story of what had occulted, and it chanced" that the * guard believed him, "live se<»n you travelling a bit too '~©ften l up,and down the, road^'-thc guard said.,tp her : "iand I'll advise you to say no more, but leave before you get into -trouble/ ' I <?his gentleman said that very shortly =»fter this 'happened he was travelling on ■; the same lirle, when he noticed a man i -and woman" get off at a StaUoiTand go to ' 4hc lunch counter ' She followed beh nd "hei com( t .anio.n, insisting that there was not tim» to get whateier he waDted. He tra« very couiilacent and leisurel-, howevee, andjusl as the guard was shutting 'thttioorJte urged the, women to run. She, did 4p, ta^id lit t helped htr into the car as it betran o move. Then he slammed the - door and rem uned on the platform while *.the train sped away. " " That nas a narrow escape," he said | -" Ti»afcVoman and I were together m a i compartment, and she insisted upon talking to me - I am r certain she is a blaektnailer. I flatter in j self I outwitted ,her pretty neatly." — Harper's Weekly.