BLACKMAILERS.
BIG AMERICAN GANG. EFFORTS TO PROCEED IN ' CAMERA. By Telegraph—Pres* Association—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. WASHINGTON, September 20. Tho heads of tho Department of Justice and tho bureaux' at Chicago, New York and Philadelffliia met at Washington to-day to try to arrange for secrecy of testimony by 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 victims of over 1,000,000d01, by tlircatcning proceedings under the Mann white slavo law, which imposes severe penalties for men accompanying Women on interstate journeys.
The 'Department of Justice cannot break the gang without tho testimony of victims, who protest that it would ruin their reputations if they testified. Efforts aro being made to discover a legahmeans of proceeding in camera.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17280, 22 September 1916, Page 5
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141BLACKMAILERS. Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17280, 22 September 1916, Page 5
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