HE NEEDED FUNDS.
BLACKMAILING A SINGER. fiDITOIt SENT TO GAOi. Bp Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright. ROME, Mar&h 30. ' Innocent . Cicala, editor of a Taranto newspaper, was sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment for blackmailing Dorothy Maevad, an American prima donna.
Cicala, needing funds for his Socialist candidature for Parliament, showed her proofs of an article which he declared was about to appear in Rome accusing her of espionage in the interests of France. He pretended to defend her, and asked for £SOO to enable him to suppress the article. He obtained all her ready money and jewellery, and called next day for, the balance, when lie was arrested in the presence of representatives of other journals, who were concealed behind a gereen.
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 46, 31 March 1914, Page 7
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119HE NEEDED FUNDS. Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 46, 31 March 1914, Page 7
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