WOMEN BLACKMAILERS
LONDON GANG’S METHODS ASTOUNDING REVELATIONS (By Cable—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Recd. Feb. 17, 10 a.m.). LONDON, February 16. Mrs Cecil Chesterton, sister-in-law of G. K. Chesterton,, furnishes astonishing revelations of. an organised blackmail by a gang of elderly women, who meet regularly in a London dosshouse within sound of Bow bells, and study newspapers and otherwise keep track of happenings in the social and political world. If a man is standing for Parliament, or a woman is marrying a rich man, agents of this group establish confidential relations with the servants, and collect gossip from friends. It may be a youthful escapade resurrected, affording a chance of humiliating the husband and children, and a black mailing letter is written. Ytung girls aro particularly susceptible, and when married are often obliged to pay a regular annuity to the gang. < .. The private lives of the blackmailers are outwardly respectable. The evil work is done quietly and unobtrusively. ______
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Greymouth Evening Star, 17 February 1930, Page 5
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