Blackmailers’ Plot in Prison
FAKED PHOTOGRAPHS OF OPERA STARS
United States men have nipped in the bud a plot hatched in North Dakota prison to blackmail opera stars by means of . faked photographs. The stars who were to be blackmailed included Lily Pons, Rosa Ponselle and Carmella Ponselle. The originator of the scheme was Theodore Larson, who is serving a life term for three murders, and his accomplice, Frank Fowler. With the help of George Schultz, a guard at the prison, photographs of nude women were passed into them. Larson then cleverly superimposed photographed heads of his intended blackmail victims on tue nude stdies. The composite results were then rephotographed. Fowler drafted the extortion demands and Schultz, it is alleged, made it possible for the mail to leave the prison.
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 368, 24 February 1937, Page 7
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130Blackmailers’ Plot in Prison Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 368, 24 February 1937, Page 7
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