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Show ALLEGED 'LURE' HELD under yaw BONO Woman Arrested in Chicago Chi-cago in Connection With ! Blackmailing Scheme. CHICAGO. Sept. 28. Miss Buda God-. God-. man, alleged "lure" in the blackmailing of Fdward R, West of Chicago, a tea importer, im-porter, out of $15,000, was formally arrested ar-rested tod;iy on a warrant charging her with conspiracy in connection with the easp. Site is made a co-defendant with Homer T. French, George Irwin and "Hoe" Brady, who have been named in similar warrants. Miss Hodman is charged v. ith having induced West, a widower,- to take her tn New York and to have entrapped him in a hotel, so her confederates, posing as government agents, could arrest them on fake Mann a.-t ch arses. Bail for Miss Cod man was fixed at SS.i.OOO. The romance of an Iowa srirl has temporarily tem-porarily blocked exposure of the latest blackmail plot, which resulted in the fleecing of a rich Iowa merchant out of S 10. 000. The girl, whose father was the victim of the blackmailers, is to bo married October Oc-tober 20 find federal agents promised today to-day to ie!av arrests until after the girl's wedding. The names of the Iowa victim and his swindlers will not be made public pub-lic until arrests are made. Fear that his daughter's future happiness happi-ness might bo wrecked and that the forthcoming xvedding plans might be cancel can-cel fed caus--d the blackmailers' victim to ask for a delay in making tiie exposure. 'The man has divided, however, to aid us in evrrv possible way To prosecute the swindlers," said Hinton G. Clabaugh, Oiicaco hend of the dartment of justice. jus-tice. "Tic is willing thai his storv be made pnMii-. but not until after the mar-riacft mar-riacft of ins daughter, who in his only child. The man is a widower." |