EXTORTION BY LETTERS.
♦ SOCIETY WOMEN THREATENED LARGE SUMS DEMANDED. A. and N.Z. WASHINGTON, Feb. 24. Several of the most prominent Washington society women recently received letters threatening them with death unless they paid sums varying from 15,000 to 25,000 dollars. The letters were not of the ordinary type of anoroymous letter, but were written on good paper, in faultless English.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18026, 27 February 1922, Page 7
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60EXTORTION BY LETTERS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18026, 27 February 1922, Page 7
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