A REMARKABLE CASE.
(United Press Association. —Copyright.) LONDON, December 8.
- • The prosecuting counsel in the Police Court stated that Countess Demain met John Hamilton Dobbie in Australia and New Zealand in 1899, and also knew; Dan O'Connor in Australia. Dobbie in 1908 was engaged to be married. O'Connor and the Countess wrote anonymous ' letters, ■ which counsel described as libellous, to Dobbie's prospective mother-in--law, hoping to prevent the marriage. Tho prisoners secured the letters, which were used as a basis of blackmailing. The prisoners interviewed O'Connor and sought to induce him to fiic'rimihato the Countess, who afterwards was taken to tho prisoner's office and terrified into signing four bills^of exchange for £100 each under a threat of her and'O'Connor's arrest. The prosecution stated that Dobbie was now in Australia. The Countess is reputed' to be worth £12,000 a year.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12840, 11 December 1911, Page 7
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138A REMARKABLE CASE. Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12840, 11 December 1911, Page 7
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