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Show BLACKMAILER CONFESSES BUT MAY JO FREE War Department Clerk With Sick Family, Unable to Explain Actions WASHINGTON, Feb. 2f,. George B. Long, veteran war department clerk and, according to the pollco, confessed author of the blackmail letters let-ters recently received by Henry 1 White, former ambassador to Franco and several women prominent in i-hlngton society, was attending to j the needs of a serlouftfy ill wife and 1 his three children at their home to-l.'i. to-l.'i. lie wan permitted to return there several minutes after tho al-) al-) leged confession wuh drawn from him ; at police headquarters yesterday. So icomtlalnt had been lolgod against him today for sending the lettet-s. which demanded large sums of money under threat of death, nnd the pollco aid none would be filed unless thoso j who received the letters showod a dls- : position to press the case against him. The authorship of the letters was graced by a peculiarity in tho handwriting, hand-writing, police said, and by a watermark water-mark used in war department stationery. sta-tionery. Long, in his confession, ac-I cording to tho police, said. "I don't I. now why I wrote the letters, but I was anxious 10 see tho children of the city provided for and 1 thought these rich people might help. 00 ! |