NOVEL BLACK MAIL.

Inangahua Times, Volume V, Issue 32, 22 April 1878, Page 2

NOVEL BLACK MAIL.

Tho prnotioo of extorting black mail ( from fn.sliiou.iblo ladies ia a regular br inch of busiuoai among tho worst chis* of rogues in Pans, A capital example of this species of piratical industry was affordod tit tho Tribunal of Correctional Pilice, when o lady to whom Parisian socioty ouffht to fool indebtod, had tho courage to appour in Court mid proouro tho oonviotion of tho sooundrol who had attempted to viotimiso hor by moans of a threatening lottor. Tho documout began by statins that a papor of a vory com* promising naturo had fallen into tho hands of tho writer, and politoly sußßOstod that tho. only way to ovoid a soandnl was to buy Inok tho paper in quostion a! tho modor&to priooof a, thousand frano noto. Tho, lady, was to appear, af « certain hour in anoninibua offioo named, and to indjoato.horidontity by ho)din« conspicuously inhorliand, tho oovotod bank noto. Tho appoint tticn£ was kept ; tho lady was ob* served quiotly.scatod: in tho offico, and a young man, rooognisin^ tho noto, carno. triuniphaatly to claim, his booty. His rlco was prpmatyro, for he, had hardly ■ncpostod l^pr whpn two ngouts of policr, | who had, boon skilfully placod in.ajnbush, Irushpd out and soourod him on tho spot. ! An,oxport in writing was fortunatoly ablo to, calnbli^h tho idontity of tho tno, oharnolors, and thp dofoatpd adventurer hns boon rplcgatpd to a yonr's imprisonment, during rhjoh ho, will havo, loisuro to rcfleot on the want of disoriminatipn ho showed in tho choioo of his iptondod vio« tim.— Englishman.