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JOHN BRUCE THORNTON’S CAREER SAID TO HAVE EXTRACTED £50,000 FROM PEER. RUNAWAY MARRIAGE WITH HAREM GIRL. By Telegraph—Press Association:. Copyright. (Recd This Day, 9.40 a.m.) LONDON, July 24. The “Daily Mail” reveals that John Bruce Thornton, who was sentenced last week to seven year’s imprisonment with hard labour for conspiring to kidnap Lord Nuffield, contracted a runaway marriage with an Indian prince’s harem girl, whom the prince sent to Paris with a retinue in order that she might learn French. Thornton extracted £50,000 hush money from a peer through letters from the harem mentioning the peer’s name.
The girl, who is a daughter of a Persian prince and a Scottish lady, is now in England under an assumed name.
The blackmailed man • eventually threw off the shackles . and dared Thornton to do his worst.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 July 1938, Page 5
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136ALLEGED BLACKMAIL Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 July 1938, Page 5
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