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Show BLACKMAILER IS NOT 10 BE FEARED, SAYS DETECTIVE The escape of Martin from the Utah penitentiary has prompted an Ogden-Ite Ogden-Ite to send the Standard an article which i.s headed. "Don t fear a blackmailer.' black-mailer.' aud is as follows: t "Neve give a blackmailer a dollar. If you do you ae at his merc for the I rest of your life. In dealing with a blackmailer first get whatever material materi-al rjd,.nee he may sa he has and i hen hire a good, husky man to give j hfm the worst beating he ever had. i That is a sure cure The blackmailer is the most abject coward among criminals If he were not, he would , not be a blackmailer." Such is the advice of William Allan Pinicerion, known ihc world ovn in I riminal circles as "The Bye ' He asserts as-serts that if folowed it will act as a ; remedy for blackmailing Mr Pinkerton declared that he recognized the pictures of a number of blackmailers arested in the Tyson apartment raid as wire tappers and blackmailers from the est. "They are known In the fashionable fashion-able sections of the east," Mr. Pinker-ton Pinker-ton said. "They combine wire iin-ping iin-ping with their other criminal pursuits. pur-suits. "There is no way to guard against the work of blackmailers when they deal with people afraid of publicity," he continued. "The blackmailing game i-; probably as old as civilization or older, and it will continue to exist as long as people continue to fear they may be the objects of scandal, even though they know they are innocent "I have dealth with a large number of blaekmail cases I remember years ago a merchant of Chicago came to me and told of being lured to a woman s apartment. A camera arranged ar-ranged over the transom took their pictures a short time before an irale husband a reputed hushand appeared ap-peared or fho scene and demanded 110,000 After 1 had pinned Lhis man down and treated him rather rough! 1 procured the negative and a number of affidavits releasing the merchant of blame. The blackmailers were glad to leavo town. "One of the moM despicable cases of DiacKmamng that i ever came in con-, con-, net tion with was ore of the operations I of Harry Silverburg, alias Williams He posed as a newspaper man fre-I fre-I quently and was arrested and convict-' convict-' ed a number of times In Burope ! He once met a millionaire of Den-, Den-, ver who was attracted to him and made him managing editor of one of his papers Later the owner received j informal ion ihat everything was not as it should be with Wilialms and he I dismissed him That same day Wil-i Wil-i Hams went to the millionaire's home at dinner time, knowing the millionaire million-aire was out of tow n Out of com-; com-; mon decency he was invitPd to dinner. ) "Some weeks later the millionaire's wife received a letter from Silverburg (stating that he had met, and under promise of marriage, compromised her sister who was then at boarding I school; that under financial sin s he had taken another man into his confidence con-fidence and borrowed $4000 and that the money was now due "He asked if the woman eared cn ough for sister's reputation to loan him $4000 on his own note, promising to pay It back as soon as possible. He warned her not to tell her husband of his communication; that it would onlj cause trouble and lead to the ex posure of the sister's Indiscretion. "Luckily, she was a wise woman and she told her husband. He came directly to nie. I did not know the blackmailer by name of Williams then, but when the millionaire showed me a picture I recognized Silverburg. I found that he had only recently been in Chicago, and trailed him to New York There I found him in the Hotel Aster "I got a room where he had to pass my door and waited for him Whm he went by I reached out and grabbed grab-bed him and stuck my thumb under his ehin, telling him if he made a single sound I would murder him. 1 took him into the room and called the. millionaire, wnen mw wuci Silverburg got on his hands and knees and rubbed his face in the carpet. He , admitted he had never seen the girl." Chicago Post |
