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Show CAPITAL BLACKMAIL ARREST ANNOUNCED W ASHINGTON Feb 24 George E. Dong, io viais old. an employe of the bureau of insular arfairs. in the war department, was urrcsted today and held for Investigation by department of justice agenta ll) connection with the sending during the last few weeks of letters to prominent Washlngtonlans demanding large sums of money Threats of death wero made In case the money was not forthcoming. Long denied authorship of the letters, let-ters, chief William J. Burns of the department of Justice said the writer of the letters had been traced by a peculiarity In the handwriting and by a water mark used in war department I stationery. |