COUNTESS BLACKMAILED.
BLACKMAILER BEFORE THE POLICE COURT. DETAILS OF THE CASE. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) (Received 9, 11 a.m.) London, Decejnber 8. The prosecuting counsel at the Police Court stated that Countess Domain molt John Hamilton Dobbie in Australia and New Zealand in 1899. She also knew Dan O’Connor in Australia. Dobbie in 1908 was engaged to be married. O’Connor and the Countess wrote an anonymous letter, which counsel described as libellous, to Bobbie's prospective mother-in-law, hoping to prevent the marriage. The prisoner secured the letters and used them as a basis for blackmailing. The prisoner interviewed O’Connor, and sought to induce him to incriminate the Countess, who afterwards was taken to prisoner’s office and terrified into signing four bills of exchange for £IOO each under threat of her and O’Connor’s arrest. The prosecution stated that Dobbie was now in Australia. The Countess was reputed to be worth £12,000 a year.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 99, 9 December 1911, Page 6
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153COUNTESS BLACKMAILED. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 99, 9 December 1911, Page 6
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