Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-07-05 | Page 9 | Five Get Extortion Letters in Phoenix

FIVE GET EXTORTION LETTERS IN PHOENIX Residents Cautioned to Pay Payi No Demands PHOENIX Ariz July 5 S A PhoenIx residents were cautioned today toay today to- to day ay to pay no ext extortion demands as police and federal investigators re- re revealed revealed five business S men inch had receIved received re re- re- re demands for sums ranging from rom to during the last las month The series of threats began shortly after fter Louis Walsh was killed In a ahall hall hail of f police bullets In an extortion trap here June 3 Sheriff J. J Jn JB Jl Mo Me- I Fadden expressed the belief belle persons whose imagination had been fired by bythe he the the in incident were responsible for the sUbsequent demands demand Two traps were laid bid for the supposed supposed sup sup- posed extortionists but on neither occasion occasion oc oc- oc casion did the sender render of the threatening threatening threat threat- ening erring no note appear to claim the demanded demanded demanded de de- de- de money In none of the five cases Wf was money paid or threats to families of the business men carried out Officers declined to disclose names of ot the recipients In 11 cautioning residents to report extortion dem demands to authorities rather than pay for safety de art art- ment of f justice operatives commented that hat extortion extortionists st st. rarely carried ou out th it threats