BLACKMAIL
astonishing revelations.
[United. Press Association- r ßy Electric Telegraph—Copyright.]
(Received this day at 8.30. a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 16.
Mrs Cecil Chesterton, sister-in-law of G. K. Chesterton, furnishes. , astonishing revelations.; of : organised blackmail by. a gang of elderly woipen who meet regularly in a Loudon doss house, within, the sound of Boio Beils, and study the newspaper and otherwise keep track of happenings in social and political world. If a man is standing for Parliament, .or marrying a rich woman, agents'of this group establish confidential . relations with the servants and collect gossip from friends. It may be a youthful escapade is resurrected affording a chance of humiliating tile husband and children, „4JL blackmailing letter is written. Young, girls are particularly sustlptible, and when married are often obliged to pay a regular annuity to the gang. The blackmailers evil work is done quietly and unobstrusively.
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 February 1930, Page 5
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