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Show BLACKMAILER EVADES TRAP LAID BY POLICE PORTLAND, Ore , Jan. 13. Le tters Signed "Shadow" and demanding amounts varying from $2G.OOO to 1 510,000 on pain of death and other damage, have been received by five I prominent men of Portland, the police po-lice announced. J. esley Ladd, s banker, received a lottei demanding $25,000; Ben Selling, clothier, $15,000; Charh s Jennings & Henry Jennings Jr.. and I. Gcveurtz, fur liture men. $10,000. The police arranged with Indd to place a dummy package In a designated designat-ed spot last night and after tho pack-oge pack-oge had been put there it disappeared. 'lin police were unable to account for the escape of the person who had taken the package. Detectives who accompanied Ladd Ito the rendezvous complied with slg-nals slg-nals which had been prescribed in the 'threatening letter. The condition were that the package containing the $15,000 should be deposited at the designated ?pot. When Ladd and the detectives arrived there they received the signal, a swinging of a flashlight ind burning ol -i piece Of paper The . wdS dropped where the pa-per pa-per waa burning, The machine In which Ladd ami the detectives were riding went on eighty yards. Then the police and deputy sheriffs who had bi. n posted in the vicinity, closed in but tho man who took the package i vanished. I The package contained scraps of paper. |