A BLACKMAILER'S SUICIDE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 242, 18 February 1911, Page 9

A BLACKMAILER'S SUICIDE.

CURTOUS AFFAIR IN HUNGARY. A disagreeable affair which will probably assume great dimensions is causing much discussion in Burin l'csth. A ladies' hairdresser named Vigyazo has been conducting an organised campaign against ladies of the aristocracy' and plutocracy, which appears to have been ■long planned. Vigyazo, ;\ strikingly handsome man. of elegant appearance and polish manners, selected the business of a hairdresser for the sole reason that it would bring liiiu into close connection with the intimate secrets of his patronesses. Tims finding himself in possession of sufficient material, he forwarded various blackmailing letters, in one declaring that he had entire 'knowledge of a lady's meeting with her chauffeur, in another giving exact details of the lady's interviews with an officer of hussars, while other letters of the same character contained scarcely veiled threats. The price which he required for his silence varied from Soon to 5000 kronen, or more. An energetic lady, the wife of a millionaire, to whom the blackmailer had written in error, informed the criminal authorities, who arrested the man. It was soon known that be had communicated to the police a number of compromising stories, and it was al-o to be expected Hint in the case of a trial he would (rive the names of those ladies who bad vielricri to his demands for money. But Vigyazo committed suicide bv hnncimr himself in his cell. lf o belonged to a respectable family which had formerly owned a considerable amount of property. '