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Show S. L. MAN HELD FOR EXTORTION Illackmail Attempt on Kank-er Kank-er At Murray Results In Arrest. SALT LAKE CITY Howard R. Parr, 50, manager of the Grocers Supply company. Is charged with sending a threatening letter to D. A. McMillan, president of the First National bank of Murray, in a complaint filed by the county attorney. at-torney. Threats Reported Parr s held in the county jail in lieu of a $5,000 bond. According to j Deputy Sheriff George Beckstead, the complaining witness, Parr is alleged to have attempted to blackmail black-mail the Murray financier through threatening to "take him for a oneway one-way ride" and to "expose" him. Parr was arrested by deputies at Draper crossroads, where Mr. McMillan Mc-Millan had "planted" a cache at Deputy Beckstead's direction. Deputies were first advised of the blackmail attempt a month ago, when the banker reported that he had received a threatening letter on May 21, dated May 17. The letter let-ter demanded $600 ;and instructed Mr. McMillan to deposit the sum under a rock beside a certain telephone tele-phone pole near the crossroads. Follows Instructions Following instructions, Mr. McMillan Mc-Millan wrapped some paper with currency and deposited the package Deputies kept watch for several nights, but no one called, and the case was believed to be a hoax. On June 17, however, the banker received another threatening note, demanding $750. The same procedure pro-cedure v as followed, and Thursday Thurs-day midnight deputies reported Parr alighted from a machine Riid moved the stone where he was arrested ar-rested by Beckstead, J E. Scheib, F. H. Hall, L. D. Richardson and L. K. Woolf. Parr vehemently declared his in-rioctnee, in-rioctnee, stating he alighted and stumbled over the stone where the "plant" was concealed. Deputy Beckstead reported that Parr was taken to his office and ordered to write with his typewriter. type-writer. Later, typewriting experts are said to have reported that the threatening notes were written on Parr's machine. |
