Beaver Press | 1913-07-25 | Page 6 | Boy Held as Blackmailer

BOY HELD AS blackmailer telegraph runner aged fifteen confesses to attempted Extor it in londoff Lon doft carls arle A telegraph boy aged fifteen was arrested on a charge of at tempted blackmail ile he and his corn com rades at a branch post postoffice office had been in the habit of opening telegrams and reading them in this way tho the boy learned of an intrigue that was being carried on by a married woman he wrote demanding 30 as the price ot 0 his silence but his bie letter fell the tha hands of the womans comans uncle aho vho fao gave h him I 1 i in charge barge the lad confessed but tho the woman declined to arria ia cute