BLACKMAILERS
SYDNEY CON AUCTIONS. (Australian Press Association) SYDNEY, December 13. Frank Arnold, aged 32 years, was to-day sentenced to three years’ imprisonment for blackmail; and Olga de Falaise, aged 30 years, who was associated in the same crime, was also convicted. . She was recommended to mercy, and was released on her own recognisance to come up lor sentence ilf called upon within three years. Arnold is to be deported to Canada when his sentence is finished. Arnold and the woman de Falaise had attempted, by blackmail, to obtain a large sum of money from a country journalist. The woman de Falaise had claimed to be a Marchioness. Arnold is a married man, with a wife and two children in Canada.
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Hokitika Guardian, 14 December 1929, Page 6
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