Ogden Daily Standard | 1914-01-19 | Page 1 | W. L. Cummings Pleads Guilty |

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Date	1914-01-19
Paper	Ogden Daily Standard
Language	eng
City	Ogden
County	Weber
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Article Title	W. L. Cummings Pleads Guilty
Type	article
Date	1914-01-19
Paper	Ogden Daily Standard
Language	eng
City	Ogden
County	Weber
Page	1
OCR Text	Show tW. L CUMMINGS PLEADSGUILTY Young Man Sentenced to Three Years in Utah Prison for Blackmailing. Salt Lake, I'tah. Jan 19. W. L. Cummlngs. '1?, years old, pleaded Kuil-ty Kuil-ty in the federal district court here today and was sentenced to three jreari imprisonment for attempting to blackmail Miss Dorothy Bamberger a wealthy society girl. The attempted blackmail attracted wide attention last July because Cum-rtiings Cum-rtiings threatened to kill Miss Bam bergev with an Infernal machine of his own invention, which could be exploded ex-ploded at a distance by the use of a wireless attachment. Tests of his machine, which was confiscated oy fedenil officers, proved that it could do all that Cummings had threatened. The court showed leniency because the evidence Indicated he had been the tool of others who have not been caught
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