DR. WILSON'S BLACKMAILERS
ONE CASE DISMISSED. i Received 8 a.m.) NEW YORK. December IS. The case against Walter Dunn of send- j iflg threatening letters to Dr. Woodrow! Wilson, the President-elect, has been; dismissed. j A motion is pending to dismiss the case j against the other two accused owing to j l*>ck of evidence. Three men (the Dunn brothers and I Seeley Davenport i were arrested at New- J Mk (Jfew Jersey i for sending threaten-i ing letters to Mr. Woodrow Wilson. The ! letters threatened Mr. Wilson with death j anless he paid £1.000. Mr. Wilson left | farlier than he intended for his holiday I m the Bermudas because of the receipt ' of the letters. j The men were traced to the j Xew Jersey highlands, where they were j surprised ai:d captured after a desperate • encounter. When their mountain abode I was searrhed it was found to be packed with gur,s. _
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 303, 19 December 1912, Page 5
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