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Show Consul Mprni: tip's Itluclimnll- Washington, 12. Sprngue, American Ameri-can consul at Gibraltar, in a dispatch to tho department of state, reports that he has received a third anonymous anony-mous letter from tbo party trying to extort money from bim. A perdon baa been arrested suspected of complicity com-plicity in the plot, but tbe letter asserts as-serts that the man ia entirely innocent. inno-cent. At the same lime the conspirators conspira-tors in the third letter, withdrew professedly wholly from the attempt and abandon ail demands for money and disclaim their former threats of a personal injury to the consul or his family. Sprague's family and relatives rela-tives resided .in a secluded country place outside of the city. He has been consul at Gibraltar thirty-ono years. |