BLACKMAIL CASE.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXIII, Issue 15922, 7 May 1912, Page 7

BLACKMAIL CASE.

COUNTESS DEMANIN'S EVIDENCE

United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, May 5,

Countess Demanin, giving evidence in the blackmail case, said that she told Marshall , that O'Connor wrote anonymous letters to her daughter. She asked Page why he gavo O'Connor so much champagne. Page replied that it was a " convenient method of loosening people's tongues to learn what you want." O'Connor wrote anons'mous letters at a tea party at Kensington. She denied that O'Connor was her cat's-paw to carry out her venom, although she agreed with what he had said and written.