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Show BLACKMAILER IS 1 TOILS liiW YORK Austrian Attempts to Extort Ex-tort Money From Employer Em-ployer and Is Caught. By International yews Service. NEW YORK, Jan. 2. Clifford V-Brokaw, V-Brokaw, millionaire society man, tslep. soundly tonight for the first time since Christmas eve. Locked up in the town jail at t.leu-eovc t.leu-eovc is Frank Mvsta, a gardener on Mr. Brokaw 's $300,000 estate, the Elnn, at Gleneove. He is charged with threatening threat-ening to kill Mr. Brokaw and his iam-ilv. iam-ilv. Other charges, including attempts to blackmail Mr. Brokaw out of $.li,UU0 bv means of black hand letters, will be lodged against Mvsta on Monday. Mvsta'was arrested this afternoon by Chief of Police. Frank McCahill of Glen-cove. Glen-cove. For five hours lie protested ins iunocence. Then, when confronted with one of the letters which he had written and lost, he broke down aud made a. partial confession. He was held without bail. . , The first of the letters was received bv Ml'- Brokaw on Christmas eve while he and Mrs. Brokaw were entertaining a large party at their recently completed estate. It' was writteu in a good hand, but indicated that the writer was a foreigner for-eigner The letter demanded that Mr. Brokaw deliver 436,000 to the writer and gave explicit instructions as to bow and where it should be sent. The let ter declared that if the money was not sent Mr. Brokaw, his wife and their little son would be killed. Mr. Brokaw immediately placed the matter in the hands of private detectives detect-ives and the police at Gleneove. He u-i advised to viav no attention to the demand. A careful guard, however, was placed over him aud the members of his family. i The detectives finally decided thTt some emplovee had written the letter. Robert C. Jtunro, a full-blooded Cherokee Chero-kee Indian, who is also a detective, was given a positiou upon the estate, presumably pre-sumably to teach the Brokaw children how to' ride. By the process of elimination suspicion sus-picion finally fastened upon Mysta. and Munro was assigned to a room with him. . -,r A second letter was written to Mr. Brokaw on December It again de manded the money upon threat of deatu. On January 2 Mysta and Munro went to a moving picture theater m Gleneove. Glen-eove. The following day a letter addressed ad-dressed to Mr. Brokaw was found upon the floor of the theater. Like Hie other two, it was merely signed with three black hands. , The letter was turned or to the police. Since that time they have had experts compare the writ'ing. It is said j to have been exactly similar to that upon the other two letters, both of j which were sent through the mails. Mvsta is 30 years old and an Aus trian. |