A BLACKMAILER CAUGHT.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13380, 1 April 1912, Page 4

A BLACKMAILER CAUGHT.

VICTIM'S IDENTITY NOT

DISCLOSED

[Unitkd Prkss Association.]

Auckland, March 31

A woman inniwl Frances Wilson, win; was convicted on Wednesday on a charge of keeping ti disorderly house, was'fined, and <-*hp appeared, at tho Police Court again to-day, charged with being a rogue and a vagabond. Detective Marsa.dc stated that sine© tho previous cape a married man of some standing had complained to the po.ice of the accused, who attempted a. species of blackmail by holding over his heat]."some- letters niinnosed to pertain to some youthful indiscretion. By arrangement he kept an appointment with the woman, Detective McManon .accompanying him. They saw the woman accost a-u old gsntlnmati, and wa-s very aggressive to the man. Tho dptectivo interposed, the woman insisting that she had a right to speak to the old tfont'lemari as she had in her Docket letters Ik* had written to her._ The detective charged her with having blackmailed tho man for nearly eleven years. He arrested the woman, who wns und^r tho influence of liquor, on a charge of a broach of a prohibition order. Detective Marsack stated that the man involved was a cltiseii in a prominent; position: and it was not intended' to nrocrod with tbp cks-rge of blackmail which would cause ;\ disclosure of theman's name, and bring about the purpo'o of the ac(M',r?<l. Mr. Cut-ten, S.M., raid that much of tin* <uide»cr> was irrelevant but it was snffiei'Mt for a conviction.

AcvwM''.] \\;hf convicted and d scharg:id (Vr o- breach vS a prohibition order, ami nil t ■•',> "tlic.r clfrw vt, .rentenced' to one month's impriconment.