Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-01-04 | Page 7 | Ex-Blackmailer, English Writer Engaged to Wed

V Ex- Ex Ex Blackmailer English Writer V Engaged to Wed NEW YORK Jan 4 AP Chi P Chi Chicago cago o May Churchill 51 not notorious notorious' blackmailer of a. a a generation ago and Netley N. N Lucas year old British author who found her an inspiration for lor a book on wom women n criminals have announced their en engagement engagement engagement en- en to marry Lucas whose career career reer Includes two terms in British reform schools about which he also wrote a book came to this country recently May whose real name is May Vivienne Chur Churchill served four prison terms for blackmail robbery and attempted murder V V Since 1917 1017 wh when whOn n she was re released released released re- re leased from the womans woman's prison at Ayl AYI Aylesbury England after serving ten years rears o oPa a year fifteen sentence she has been writing confessions She was sent to Aylesbury for complicity in an attempt to kill Eddie Eddlo Guerin who in V 1902 was convicted of ot robbing the American Express company in Paris of ot several several several sev sev- eral millions of dollars and later escaped from Devils Devil's Island Mrs Churchill was accused of ot plotting the attack because Guerin a former associate refused to recognize recognize rec roe h her hOr r on the street Charles Smith who was as convicted of shootIng shooting shooting shoot- shoot Ing Guerin was sentenced to life Ufe imprisonment but w was s pardoned three years later Dont think he is reforming me Ive I've reformed myself said Chicago Chicago Chi cago cage May in regard to the engagement en en- Her first husband was James Montgomery Sharp son of ot an old Massachusetts family who married her er two twenty-two years ago and later committed suicide