CRIME OF BLACKMAIL
——— WICKEDNESS DENOUNCED TWO MEN SENT TO GAOL LONDON, 2nd July. “Blackmail is one of the most wicked crimes that can he committed. It is moral murder.” declared the Recorder of London. Nir Ernest Wild, m sentencing John Preston and Samuel Leslie, both actors, for conspiring to blackmail a candidate at the general election. The Recorder commended the unnamed candidate lot his coinage in bringing the blackmailers tiy jusliic. The "accused, he added, had deliberately embarked upon a wicked scheme to obtain nionev bv suggesting to the candidate, that'they had information calculated' to injure him socially and politically. ' , Leslie was sentenced to hvaryenrs miand Preston to two years.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 18 July 1929, Page 5
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110CRIME OF BLACKMAIL Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 18 July 1929, Page 5
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