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Show WOMAN PLAYWRIGHT DISCLOSES PAST LIFE CHICAGO, Dec. 8. Miss Anna E. Sharpley, amateur playwright and chicken" farmer, disclosed the trials of her profession and told of how she had been .blackmailed for $60,000 by an old sweetheart during a hearing into her affairs by a referee in bankruptcy here today. Miss Sharplcy told how, in her vouth, she had committed an indiscretion with a man in England, whom she named as Clajenco Shubcrt, ' and how he dogged her footsteps; extorting ex-torting money under pain of publicity, until his deaUi "somcwhero in France" , several months ago. The witnesa also ; disclosed how she had been "fleeced" i of JfSuU by a man in New York who I had promised he could get her for that i amount an introduction to a famous dramatic producer and assure her the production or" the play, which was, she said, in the nature of a history of the tratric events of her own life. Miss Sharpley's debts are said to be in excess of $80,000. tho declares her insolvency is due entirely to the $00,000 which she paid as the price of silence cont-erning certain events in her youth. The hearing will be resumed Monday. |