Thornton’s Disgraceful Career
(Received 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, July 24. The “Daily Mail” reveals that John Bruce Thornton, who was sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment with hard labour for conspiring to kidnap Viscount Nuffield, contracted a runaway marriage with an Indian Prince’s harem girl, whom the Prince bad sent to Paris with his - retinue in 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 the daughter of a Persian prince and a Scottish lady, is now living 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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Northern Advocate, 25 July 1938, Page 5
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