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Show DEATH THREATS I SENT TO NIBLEY Presiding Bishop of L. D. S. Church Gets Blackmail Letters SALT LAKE. Oct. 8, Death threats i haVe been sent by blackmailers to Charles w. Nlbley, presiding bishop of the L D, S. church and general man-ogei man-ogei of the Ltali-ldaho Sugar com-1 pany, with an alternative of paying If 10,000 Two letters have been receiv-l ed by him The second message, de-t Imanding money, came last Saturday, the day after that Bet for the blowing 'up of the Vermont building by an un-i un-i known "red." I The 'wo letters were sent through1 the mails to Bishop Nlbley's home in Logan, and both demanded the pay-1 ment of $10,000 to be deposited un-j der an old building mar the railroad tracks on First South and Sixth West streets In Logan OF ERS REWARD. Bishop Nlbley yesterday offered aj roioir,! r. t ilnmi ".-, Ih ,rr.tl filirt' ! conviction of the person who sen! the second letter He declared emphatically, emphati-cally, first, that every possible effort iill be mad i to apprehend the writer Of the letter and. second. ih.it-no blackmailer or other person will ever Succeed In intimidating him vvitli threats of violence or otherwise Private detectives and federal authorities au-thorities have been assigned to the! case and are St present engaged in, running down a number of clues which j they are known to have found The hope soon to have sonio tangible evidence evi-dence which will lead to the d I.ncIomi re i of the identity of the blackmailers. It is believed In soim- quarters that, if the person who wrote the letter! threatening to blow up the Vermont building can be apprehended, either the same individual ot members ol the same group of radicals will b.-fourd b.-fourd responsible for the Individual threats against Bishop Xiblev If is: pointed out however, that the "Red B 1 letter concerning the building where Bishop Nlbley's offices are located con-1 talncd no demand for money. Another hypothesis Is that, having' failed the first time to secure the! money demanded, the blackmailers hit ! lirinn thr. t.lno ,,t nltAmMlna , CmV,! '. ., w. l V ...... ,,l .. ,(S 1.U 11 ,(,- I en Bishop Nlbley with tiv dynamiting ithreat and to foive him to comply vvith the second demand, j Thursday night was set as the , lie 'for Bishop Nlbley to deliver the $10.- 000 in response to the second letter. Bishop Nlbley informed detectives : who took up positions near the spot Indicated while an agent slipped a i package done up In brown paper, as directed, under the building Indli I led. No one- appeared, however, to take the package. i Both letters were printed by hand in capital letters with wry evident effort ;to disguise the hand of the writer or writers. FIRST LETTER, j The first letter was received at Lfish-op Lfish-op Nlbley's Logan home on Ma 20, and said "We. want ten thousand dollars from , you and Intend to huve it In one form lor another Next Thursday evening, .May L'5, between the hours ol eleven and twelve j p. m.. take ten thousand dollars wrapped wrap-ped well In wrapping puper and pro-ceed pro-ceed as directed 'Go west on Center street to Sixth West, then go south on Sixth West to First South stre. t. "On the Southwest corner of Firxt South and Sixth West streets, neai th( railroad trucks, you will rind some' weigh scales, behind which is a wooden I building. "Place said money under west side j of wooden building at arm's length. "Remember dale and place and sec 1 that only one person appears. 'if there is more than one. look out for trouble. "We permit you to place said inoio under said building for your own safety, safe-ty, as in handing over said money to us In person some misunderstanding of an action on your part by US may lad to your Injury, without mem lulling lull-ing the worst that might come to you. From an unseen position We will iwatcn tne proceedings." At the appointed time, armed with a wrapped package or thc proper size! and shape, but filled with tissue pa-i per instead of greenbacks. Bishop Nib-ley Nib-ley went to the rendezvous while de- tc. tiv. s posted themselves In s. ( ludcd nearby places Bishop Nlbley shoved I the package under the building at arm's length as requested and then waited for developments Nothing came to pass, however, for the perpetrators of the plot, either frightened or warned in some way, did I not put In an appearance. The second loiter, making the threat' even stronger, was received in a slml-1 lar wa, and again, there was delivered a package of tissue paper to the hole under the building, and again without results. |