Peer Blackmailed for £50,000
THREAT TO REVEAL LETTERS FROM HAREM GIRL LONDON, July 24. The Daily Mail reveals that John Bruce Thornton, who was sentenced on Friday for his plot to kidnap Lord Nuffield, contracted a runaway marriage with an Indian prince’s harem girl whom the prince had sent to Paris with a retinue iu order to learn French. He 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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Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 175, 27 July 1938, Page 12
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