Show I CITIZENS ARt ARE MENACED BY THREATS THRA IS Of DEATH AND V VIOLENCE I Blackmailers Demands Dem Have Terrorized Corn Com Communities in Utah County Many any t tI I Letters Received I I i I I I Local Peace Officers Government Detectives and Now at Work on the Cases CasesI I ff Living in ID hourly H fear for fr their lives Un and the safety or those e near nur and aDd dear dr to them I afraid to venture from their homes hemes after nightfall lest an unknown hand bring I Ideath death and destruction to themselves or I I II their loved loyed ones scrutinizing every j stranger who appeared in their midst fearful that he might be the dreaded as aa assassin assassin I sassin such has lias been beoo the experience of I prominent residents of Spanish Fork Sa Sn Salem s I Ilem lem and am Springville county for I Imore more than four months past Letters aigne algue You know who WM and There are six of us and we are deeper desper desperate ate demanding sums W bf money rang ranging rangIng ranging ing from gO threatening the tM ad addressee addre eee or his family with horrible death deeth such demands were wt re complied COmpiled e with hive been received r by b at least twenty fix five e men and others other known to have prop property property erty in various portions of Utah l tab county In every case cue explicit instructions have accompanied the t e demand stating Just where the money mone should be placed the signal 81 al whereby the writer might know that his instructions had been obeyed and threats of f death by bomb or infernal machine if the th authorities were notified That the blackmailers have received considerable sums of money mone through such demands is the opinion of the Utah county official but so badly frightened are all an of those th to whom the threatening letters have been sent that th t they deny den absolutely having bang acceded to the requirements s K forth In the letters they received Notwithstanding the utmost vigilance on the part of or Sheriff George GeorgeT T Judd of or Utah county CORE Cone Constable table Fred Dart of Spanish Fork and other local peace officers officers I cers and the planning of most elaborate traps for the th detection and capture capUr of the miscreants no positive po trace Of them has baa been discovered Packages so wrapped as to resemble I currency have been placed at the points I I designated In the threatening letters the strictest of oC watches has baa b been en maintained sometimes for days after the time set for planting the money yet jet et so thorough seems to be the organization of the black blaek blackmailers blackmaIlers mailers that no one ORe has been seen een to ap c P PUnit Unit States ton tOR detectives and amateur sleuths sleuth have at different times worked on the various cases but despite most promising clue duett all have failed ignominiously In the meantime the whole social fabric of the various valley valle towns has been menaced Neighbor greets neighbor with suspicious 1 e te eye e business associates meet with at attempted attempted attempted tempted familiarity of mien 1 but beneath it all Is the disquieting fear Cear that possibly po sIbly the friend whose hand is extended in ap apparent apparent apparent parent amity may be one of the Dreaded ted Six Suspicion is rampant everywhere Reynolds Reynold s Letter Henry Henl Reynolds a prominent business businessman man of oC Springville and known throughout I Ithe the state as a man of means and business s acumen received a letter leUer from the black blackmailers blackmailers blackmailers mailers during the latter part of March MarchIn I In accordance with tile te demands of the writer he inserted the following adver advertisement advertisement In the Lost columns of The Herald to signify that he had complied compiled with the terms laid down by b the Six LOST Somewhere In Spanish Fork can canyon canyon I yon Xray Return to Herald I Mr Reynolds Renolds on advice from friends and the Utah county count authorities secured gi in bogus money mone and placed It beneath the Spanish Fork canyon footbridge and a watch was set on he spot in the hope that the blackmailers or an ernie emis emissary sari sary gar might be captured So low Is the underbrush in that vicinity however how r and so conspicuous the roads and trails lead leading leadIng I ing log to the spot that it is believed the ap approach approach of or the watchers was noted At any rate no attempt was made to secure the i package The letter lette received by b Mr Reynolds which was the second one of a similar nature mailed to Lo him reads rends as follows folio f Hen Reynolds We Ve let you off last 4 9 December because we new you was waa 4 sick and we want to bother a af asick asick f sick man But you are all rite now no 4 4 and you got to do what we ask or orwell 9 4 4 well blow you to hell and your hous bou 9 4 f and store too You take MW in bills 9 4 9 and gold and go to the bridge over oyer f 4 Spanish Fork Canyon and nd put it be beneath 4 4 neath the third support and go home t 4 and you ou will be all III rite but if It you f s 4 go and tell the sheriff sh well put you 4 4 where you wont tell any an more tales ta 4 4 and well send your family to hell 4 4 after aHer you We Vf can get you any an time t 4 4 we want to and yowl better do what 4 I 4 we e tell you How would you like jk for forus f 4 9 us to walk up p to you some day on 4 4 9 the street and drop droll a little piece of 4 9 4 hollow pipe at your feet A guard t 4 wont do you OU any an good for we got it 4 4 9 fixed so the cap will touch oft off the 4 4 dynamite as soon as It hits the f 4 street Now Reynolds R you do what t twe 4 we tell you and ami youil be all rite If 4 4 4 you dont were going goins to get Iet you but 4 4 f YOU YOL WILL BE THE LAST First 4 4 your store will wUl be blown up then 4 4 if you come in your family wilt will 4 4 4 get It and if you think you have 4 9 4 4 anything to live Jive for then and anti still 4 4 wont give us u the tl money well blow blo f 4 you up and see how show you like that 4 4 4 We Wre VI mean business b ness Hen 4 4 4 f When you have Me put the money f 4 4 where put an ad In The Her 4 4 aid like this 4 4 i t Lost Somewhere where In Spanish Fork 4 4 4 4 canyon Xray Return to Herald 4 4 po f r Then well know kno youve youe done what 4 4 4 we told you to and you OU wont be 4 4 4 r bothered any an more Be careful what 4 4 4 you vou do and don dont t munk with ith us 4 4 t Just because you ou got ot off last winter 4 4 4 f 4 is iB no sine get iret Jr t off orf again 4 4 THERE ARE STILL SIX OF US rs I I I II j I I I I I I I I 1 I I I I I i I 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 The lett r received rive b by Mr r Reynold Re s sent tt under cover from fr rein SkI tab Ut Eureka ureka and an when rh hor lre re the th Bt Bu v reka rEu postmasters indorsement to that ef effect effect feet The Te missive was as written writ t on corn com common em emm tablet water watermark mon m paper marL mark mrk and aD In what was a A di dis t handwriting Not N ot nU l did the writer fell fan In misspelling WOIN i ly Iy to give ghe gl the th impression of being il ii illiterate 1 literate but the punctuation pulsing and general composition com ton of oC tho th lh letter displays display R the workings of a clear df r mind Though Thou h written in a I backhand style ink of if o penman penmanship penmanship ship sip at various places th tw lapsed lap pac Into lato the tho th arm anti ordinary writing t I s armr an r y being behig big written in every instance in inthe Inthe inthe the prevailing style of ot handwriting Apparently recognizing the th danger l or orthis o othis this form of communication let letters letters letters written to other persons in the Utah th valley have hae been printed with a pencil The paper in each instance however re rt remains remains mains mat the same a cheap tablet writing paper of which a stock tok can be purchased In any town In central Utah The tablets in question are a used ua by the school children In that vicinity hence bce the paper often furnishing a method mEtho of o de dp determining the Identity of or the writer wrier Is valueless to the officials Nearly all al of the te letters leters probably forty fort fortIn in number have been mailed at Salem Slem three miles mie inland from fr Spanish Fork A Afew Afew few have been dropped dropp through the mail mailing mi lug ing IR slot alot in the tile door do after closing dosing hours ho rf but bu the greatest grEat vigilance on the part of or Charles Char Stone has thus far al alfe failed fe to bring brine to light any e of or orthe the methods employed in mailing the th let letters lette letten ten te No stranger has ha been ben seen een en about abut the te town at the time the letters were wr mailed mlP nor has hu anyone ayone been ben seen spen loiter loitering loitering ing In about abut the postoffice at al such uch times time Letter to Henry Gardner Henr Henry Gardner president of the senate during durn the th last lat session lon of the th legislature received a I threatening letter recently but buthe buthe buthe he resolutely refuses to discuss the mat matter matt ter t or o to take t ke any action looking toward the th apprehension of the blac blackmailers k mailers H Hhas Hb Hhas has b wade the statement stent several verl times about Spanish Pork Fork that he would at Fok pa paa paD pay paya a D attention anU to t such f fU t dm U j giving it as Us his I belief J bif n of r the O threats aD would woul lend If out No actual acua violence has bees been bf resorted reni to but bt Mayor F M Snell of or Sheriff George Judd of Provo Povo and 81 others who wh have interested th themselves tl In th tl cases cl hae have been notified to hI C case ase their endeavors to find the guilty guit persons un under und der dei d pain pin of death at some future tim tm Wh When n we get around to it lt i j i the phrase bearing on their time for demise Widow Threatened One of the mot most features feature of nt t entire series Iries of cases is that furnished be bv by hY Mrs lire n Ellen Elen Hiatt Hiat caIs of ot Payson Py n Mrs fn Hiatt Hia who was a I widow In liin living ing in one J of the finest residences in that town re ye received n i a letter leter demanding 0 She paid pid no ml 1 attention to the letter leter and ami within a afew afe afew few fe days received another oher In more threatening terms and demanding S or fifty dollars interest for getting smart So worried did Mr Mrs 41 tt become S worie dd HIAt becot over the the matter matUr matr and the constant fear of vie vio violence vo volee lence lee ence that when attacked b by illness in she abs seemed sm unable to muster sufficient vital vitality vitaliy ity iy It to battle for tor Mo life lf and as a result died dle It I is believed li t b bs those thoe who knew all al of the th facts of the th case that she he would woul ordinarily hay have recovered were wen it not for th nervous strain under wider she had hr and that the blackmailers have hay hayo one o methods death which can be to their thel 1 Farmers Story William Taylor 80 S U years pars of or age ae who owns OWIS one on of the most mot prosperous farm farms farmIn In the vicinity of Salem Slem is another of those thO from whom the th Dreaded Drea pd Six lx have hae bavi demanded dmn demand mosey money In this instance It wa was WI threatened that unless he hp with witt their demand for tl would woul kidnap his only son a bright youth of 10 years year and aDd torture him to death 4 I am an old man said sait Mr fr Taylor 4 4 to The Herald representative r and 4 4 my mv days da of an and strife ar a aI are sn 4 4 I hope hoP 01 over er But if they try to do 4 what they thy say sy I fear I would forget CorSet f 4 my gray gay hairs and tr try to destroy r 4 4 Ime some of their filth filthy arcas vs My 4 4 4 only son was W born brn to me mp when hen T r was wu wui 4 4 70 i age He lie i i Li nn my my one boa hos 4 4 tarn tape ta from the te eternaL eterna Hod nd T I would woul 4 4 fight for fol him as I 1 would not for my 4 4 own ow life lie lieTe The Te letter leter rEc i d b by Mr r Taylor was wan ws printed on the usual nn nd d print paper was b mailed male from fr Springvale Its Is et text was as fol tot totowa lows owa This Is the Letter 4 William Taylor Talor You Ton To are old ol and nd 4 4 doot care much for fe If but ht t yes yoo y 4 have hav a bet bov by that you yo think a leap of or 4 9 Now we are ara ar going to I 1 mak a deal cal 4 4 4 with you yo so 1 you OI can an jun ia bin all an the 4 4 rest I of your our life ft You RO go nd get et etin 4 4 42 in bills and nd take tak them to urek 4 4 Arrange to get let there then In the after afern 4 4 noon n or o night When it is a dark Jark you 4 4 I go to the wagon walon road roa that t la crosses co 4 4 the te railroad and ant start north on the th 4 4 track Count 25 telegraph voles toles and 4 4 when you conic come CO t to the th t 4 4 put pt the money in a nanT naON sack and 4 4 4 lay it down at th the foot fot of oC that sac pole 4 4 th the Sh th Then yo o s go 0 on n back cl to 4 I and an from there hoam and 4 keep your yr mouth mth shut Now Nw Xo you do 4 4 what we tell tl you yon We W want 4 to ha hay it i todo but if you ou dont do 4 Just as a we w will wili wil steal neal that 4 kid ki of yO yours and we wel well II take ake Mm It into 4 4 4 the hills hla and keep ke him out ot in the cold 4 nights night and then well en give sie h e you ou 4 to g give xe f as us W money mo but 4 next time t I It will ill 1 lie I c moar mor Tf If T von ion 4 i Ike give cr e us the more then we will wi Continued on Page 2 I PROMINENT CITIZENS ARE MENACED BY 1 I THREATS OF DEATH I Ii i Continued from Page 1 1 f tie Ue him down d wn and aAd put a S stick of 0 dma dwa 4 mite on Oft hi his bill chest best and aad blow his Ms 4 I 4 damned hart clean dean into Prose Then 4 t 4 iso 7 can WD hay hav ha hint him bock beck Do we set get f 4 the money mORey T Tf f 4 SIX DESPERATE VESPERA TE MiN MEN MENThe M The aged man much of or Ms his stamina guise gone through fear ear for his beloved beloV son on se Sc secured cured the nece necessary ary funds rundS and th the teflon log Ing evening went to te Spanish Fork en route to Kurka Eur ka Owing however hewner to tile the heavy hn condition of th rea roadS b he was wag un an unable able a to drive as 81 rapidly as ato he had hall antic anticIpated anticIpated and as aa a result missed his hit train He immediately hurried beck to Salem fearful that he II find his eon Ion gone go goI gonCI I but the tIte child was safe and from f that moment at he has baa sot not been out of or the fight lIcht lor of or one of or the numbers m of at r the family for fur foran furI foran an instant I More Dynamite Threats I Bishop Taylor Tailor brother of Wi Wilim llam lm Taylor and one af of r the tM wealthiest I and most t prominent p Mormons in ln Salem sm smI I wan wa also threatened following foik wip a j for H KO Two letters nave have hem en ft oved r elved Wy him each stating slating Il that he and aDd his W hem bond would be blown Mown up with dynamite before bero June 1 I If tr h lit did nut net give up the Ute amount asked ked Jetties Jame P Christenson non of the tilt firm finn of et 1 Mason proprietor of the Farmers Farmer ln Cash Mercantile company compan Sa Ha Salem lent lem has tins received several threatening let letters letI I OIK On In ii of r nm stated in part 4 1 Yo You Y i ar ari a oung ung man and have bae our f ht r Oi le lifs fA YOU OU nij You wont 4 I I 4 J SS li j ter ten years ears from now but if Iff I I f 7 C t 4 HENRY GARDNER Prominent citizen of Spanish Fork i I president of the senate In the last legislature who has received sev several several I eral letters from blackmailers 4 your our dead ead in a month 0 wont do 4 4 9 you OU mutch good fOOd lou sOli tie a blue 4 9 I 4 string jg around the J e handel of your our 4 4 dose doer at the ther store and take SW out 4 |