BLACKMAIL GANG
ELDERLY WOMEN IN LONDON
ASTONISHING REVELATIONS United P. A.—By Telegraph—Copyright Reed. 9 a.m. LONDON, Sunday. Mrs. Cecil Chesterton, sister-in-law of G. K. Chesterton, has made astonishing revelations of organised blackmail by a gang of elderly women who meet regularly in a London dosshouse, study newspapers, and otherwise keep track of happenings in the social and political world. If a man is standing for Parliament or marrying, or a woman is marrying a rich man, agents of this group establish confidential relations with his servants and collect gossip from his friends. It may be that a youthful escapade is resurrected affording a chance of humiliating wife, husband and children, and a blackmailing letter is written. Young girls are particularly susceptible and, when married, often are obliged to pay a regular annuity to the gang. The private lives of the blackmailers are outwardly respectable and the evil •work is done quietly and unobtrusively.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 899, 17 February 1930, Page 9
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153BLACKMAIL GANG Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 899, 17 February 1930, Page 9
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